It's just that the risk factor is big or small! !
Being a pilot is more dangerous! !
Face to face with the pilot-approaching the real pilot in life
Tony, 3 1 year-old, captain of Boeing 757, thin, capable of short hair, light blue jeans and dark blue jacket, inadvertently reveals a deep and unrestrained smile.
Leon, 29, is the co-pilot of Boeing 777. Tall and burly, a light blue shirt and jeans set off a clean and handsome face.
I tried to search for information related to civil aviation pilots in my mind, and the result was almost blank.
Are pilots as handsome, cool and tough as described in "Soaring into the Sky" starring Wu Zhenyu and "Good Luck" starring handsome Kimura Takuya? Or like the paratroopers falling from the sky in Peacock. When you look up at him in mid-air, his clothes dance like a myth, but when he lands on this secular ground, he is the ordinary man with messy hair pushing a broken bicycle to eat steamed bread in the street?
At least the two civil aviation pilots in front of me, Leon and Tony, didn't let me down.
I have an appointment with Leon and Tony at Starbucks. The light came in obliquely from the French window, and we started a dialogue between fools and wise men. I am that fool-not that I have a low IQ, but that I, like most people, know nothing about the profession of pilot and am extremely curious. "If you can't let yourself catch a cold? It is said that your marriage will also be censored? When you fly in the sky, is there always a question hovering in your mind: how many hundreds of lives are in my hands? With the development of machinery, will pilots become more and more stupid? " I threw out a bunch of messy questions. They couldn't help laughing across the street.
Gorillas can fly planes?
I once heard a friend joke that it is very easy to be a pilot now. Press a button and the plane will take off, and then leave it alone. Just press the button when you land.
Tyrion smiled. He said that many people think it is easy to be a pilot now, and gorillas can fly planes. But pilots are much more expensive than gorillas. It used to cost more than 600,000 RMB to train a pilot in China, but now it is sent to Australia to train about 400,000 RMB. It takes more than 7 years for a pilot to grow into a captain, and it takes at least 2 million to train a captain of a Boeing 737. These expenses are paid by the airlines. As soon as the pilot enters the university, he knows which airline he will serve after graduation.
"Now the degree of aircraft automation is really high. It can be said that the value of pilots is more reflected in the judgment in times of crisis. But the plane is still not as smart as everyone thinks. For example, at present, passenger planes have no automatic take-off function. Where to accelerate, where to take off and what kind of speed should be decided by the pilot. Landing is also operated by the pilot. Although the landing route is indicated by instruments, when landing, you must see the route indicator with naked eyes before landing. If the visibility is too low, landing is not allowed without seeing the indicator. On the plane, the pilot should always observe whether various instruments are normal. "
Leon said that pilots should not doze off, be too excited, look at the clouds and fantasize romantically, and don't talk about topics other than flying. Pilots should always keep a rational and stable mind. Except for flying, basically everything on the plane has to be managed by the pilot. On the plane, the captain is the big housekeeper, taking all the responsibilities on the plane: the things in the cabin are broken and must be solved. The flight attendants found that there was something missing in the catering and wanted the pilot to communicate with the ground.
The program is more reliable than people?
In a scene in Up to the Sky, two pilots saw a thunderstorm ahead, and the instrument showed a red signal, so they bravely rushed into the rain area, and then they looked at each other: What should I do? What shall we do? Seeing this plot, Leon felt so embarrassed and unprofessional.
There are three types of aircraft thunderstorm warning: red, yellow and green. The red alert must not be rushed over, and there is still a detour of 25 kilometers. If the typhoon surrounds the airport, you can only turn around and choose other airports to land. "Pilots must strictly follow the procedures, and this condition must be met to do this. We have a quick reference manual, which contains all the problems encountered by our predecessors and the problems that the editor can think of. We don't consider personal safety when flying, and we don't think that the lives of 300 people are in my hands at this time. Because every training we have received in the past puts safety first, we only need to consider what to do at this time when flying. " After a lot of simulator flight training, this is basically due to conditioned reflex.
Both Leon and Tony absolutely believe in the accuracy of the instrument and firmly believe that high technology can ensure their safety.
If their own judgment is different from the instrument display, pilots will basically choose the instrument display as the standard. "The possibility of instrument failure is very small. Our cockpit has three sets of main flight computers, three sets of hydraulic systems and two sets of automatic driving. All basic equipment has two or more sets. In the sky, sometimes people's feelings are very inaccurate. For example, at dawn and dusk, heaven and earth are almost the same color, and it is difficult for the naked eye to judge where is the top of the head and where is the foot. There is such a case in the history of flight. A pilot feels that his judgment is accurate. As a result, the plane was flying upside down, which was very dangerous. The large passenger plane we are driving is basically not turned upside down. When you think it is pulled up, it is tied to the ground. "
Face to face with pilots: glory or loneliness?
Once in a taxi, the driver asked Tony, "What do you do?" Tony replied, I am also a driver. The taxi driver asked again, what car do you drive? Tony replied, I drive a tricycle. So the taxi driver's expression became very strange. If Tony says he flies a plane, you can imagine that the driver's expression will be different.
When Tony was young, he liked the feeling that his expression changed when others knew he was a pilot. Now, he really feels that he is just a technician, and there is no essential difference between him and a car driver. Leon never wanted to tell anyone who he was, because he was afraid that other people's attitudes would suddenly change and make him feel unreal.
Life is not a TV play. Tony and Leon both think that life is actually boring. They don't have many friends. Locals can have some high school classmates or something. Everyone known by foreign pilots, except pilots, is probably a flight attendant. They come to the city center two or three times a month and are not familiar with crowded cafes like Starbucks. If you insist on doing something with your friends, go for a walk or eat, karaoke, or climb Baiyun Mountain occasionally. They can't leave Guangzhou city casually, because there will be a flight mission at any time and they can't ask for leave.
Tony seldom keeps himself idle. When he is not flying, he will have dinner with his friends and play billiards. Because when you are empty, you will feel empty and lonely. I once had a crush on CS, and I fought all night. When I turned off the computer, my whole body was silent and lonely.
Leon believes that men are always lonely when they grow up. This sense of loneliness is largely due to work pressure. "I'm always thinking, what's not done? Afraid of forgetting something. There are too many things we need to take care of and there are no details. " We must make sure that everything is foolproof! Leon feels a little obsessive-compulsive
"We have been taking exams all our lives, such as a small physical examination once a year, a big physical examination once a year, and an annual routine pilot license examination and mock examination." Speaking of a pilot who died before he was 65, two people remember him clearly. "We are not a long-lived profession. Flying is very harmful to your health. Leon is beginning to lose his hair. When flying, the altitude changes greatly. In the cockpit of hypoxia and low pressure, the body must adapt quickly. We all have occupational diseases more or less, namely lumbar spondylosis and cervical spondylosis. It's windy to sit in the cabin, and you have to sit for seven or eight hours on a long flight. At this time, facing the endless night sky, you will not feel beautiful, but will only feel bored. There is only one pilot around, so you can't chat casually. Flying is lonely. "
Face to face with the pilot: Do you feel scared when flying?
Tony and Leon don't think so when it comes to high-risk careers. They and the civil aviation pilots around them really rarely encounter big unexpected problems. Tony has been flying for nearly 10 years, and it has been smooth sailing. When Leon first chose this career, he hesitated because he felt dangerous. However, when he knew those flight theories by heart, he made countless simulated flights, and his fear completely disappeared. "We conducted a lot of tests in a simulated environment. The simulated cockpit is equivalent to a laboratory, which is exactly the same as the real environment. We will simulate various dangerous situations and train pilots' psychological quality and emergency response ability. "In such a simulation environment, Tony and Leon experienced all possible situations on the plane, sweating again and again, and simulating the crisis of life and death again and again.
Even so, Leon gets a little nervous every time he taxies near the takeoff speed. He said it was not the same as being afraid. At that moment, his mind was full of all kinds of possible questions, for example, what should I do if the engine doesn't work, should I fly or stop? I don't have time to be afraid and nervously flash through various solutions to the problem. The flight to America was bumpy. At this time, Leon will be a little nervous secretly, always feeling that there are countless possibilities waiting for him ahead, and he is ready to meet all kinds of dangers quickly.
Obviously, pilots rarely talk about fear. Tony was surprised when he heard Leon's idea, because he never felt scared and nervous during the flight, but he sometimes had some inexplicable dreams, such as dreaming that the plane was on fire and exploded and that he was going to be late. He won't wake up in a dream, wake up, and everything will be as usual. If he didn't say it deliberately, he wouldn't remember these dreams.
Tony took an amulet with him, and Leon also had a sister. She begged the amulet to be put in the suitcase he took with him every time he got on the plane.
Face to face with the pilot: Do men like flying planes?
"Do you think about it, what a sense of accomplishment it is to fly such a big plane to heaven? Do you know the elevator? Only when the pressure on the lower surface of the plane is greater than the pressure on the upper surface can the plane fly. How was such a wonderful thing discovered? How clever people are. I like driving, I like to have a sense of control, so even if I play games, I like CS, which is a kind of quick response or racing car. " Tony said.
Tony's story is really like a novel or a movie. His father used to be a pilot, but now he and his brother are both pilots. He always talks about his childhood. When I was a child, the airport management was not so strict, and my father often took him for a walk on the tarmac. The little boy stood on a seemingly endless flat ground and watched the behemoths fly around. Until sunset, the wings of the plane were stained with sunset glow. In Tony's memory, his father is always in his forties, young, handsome, hardworking and kind. "I remember the way he got off work, stepping on a bicycle and wearing sandals, the whole image of a farmer pilot. But now I think he is particularly handsome because he is wearing a uniform. Father's uniform is a white short-sleeved shirt, V-neck, epaulettes, no tie and blue pants. Now it looks more like a lesbian skirt. " Tony admitted that he was born in 1970s, and he has a strong uniform worship complex. Being able to wear that uniform and become a man with dignity like his father has become Tony's goal since childhood, that is, from that time on, he felt that he wanted to be a pilot in the future.
Today, many children of my father and colleagues, like Tony, still choose and love the career of pilot. For Tony, if there is a pilot at home, almost all boys will yearn for this career, which needs no reason.
The situation in Lyon is completely different. Graduated from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics Flight Academy. After a year and a half of flight training in Australia, I got Australian private flight license, official flight license and instrument grade license. When I was in high school, I was completely confused about applying for pilots. After the application was approved, I was still excited, scared and hesitant. It was not until he flew into the blue sky, suppressed his inner excitement and calmly looked down at the dreamy blue sky and white clouds and pure beaches in Australia that he really loved flying.
Falling in love with the blue sky and flying is not a difficult thing. Even they want to try to fly fighter planes and seek more excitement and challenges.
Face to face with the pilot: flight attendants are all around the pilot?
In almost all TV dramas, pilots are gods in the eyes of flight attendants. It's great to marry or fall in love with a pilot. It seems natural for a flight attendant to marry a pilot. However, Leon and Tony don't think they are worshipped by flight attendants: "Even some flight attendants don't pay much attention to pilots."
Tony can understand why he is always willing to play pilot and stewardess in TV series in Japan and Hong Kong. "Their flight attendants are likely to speak highly of the pilots. Because money is very important in modern society, isn't there a saying that you should look at clothes before meeting people? The income ratio of foreign captains and flight attendants varies greatly. Let me give you an example from abroad. We are looking for a very backward country, such as Bangladesh, which looks worse than our urban-rural fringe, but the monthly salary of flight attendants is 3,000 US dollars, that of the co-pilot is about 4,500 US dollars, and that of the captain is about 7,500 US dollars. A captain in Hong Kong earns HK$ 300,000 a month. At present, our flight attendants are several thousand RMB, the co-pilot is only in his early 10 thousand, and the captain of Boeing is only over 20 thousand. The income gap between pilots and flight attendants is not very large. "
Although the stewardess doesn't admire and admire the pilot very much now, Tony's wife is a beautiful stewardess, and Leon has had contacts with the stewardess. About 50% of the pilots they know are with flight attendants.
However, in daily work, pilots and flight attendants are not as familiar as expected, because there will be different flight attendants in different shifts, so many pilots and flight attendants are not familiar with or even know each other. And the cockpit and the passenger compartment are separate. Without special circumstances, the captain and the co-pilot are not allowed to leave the cockpit, so as to prevent two captains from leaving the cockpit at the same time.
Face to face with pilots: pilots in the eyes of flight attendants
MsLi: I have worked for 10 years.
We don't worship pilots. They are no different from ordinary people, but after entering the cockpit, they work very hard. No matter what your personality is, you may be laughing and laughing at ordinary times, but entering the cockpit is like becoming another person and becoming particularly rigorous. They are more mature and steady than other young people of the same age. I think they are a little macho and uncompromising.
Young pilots are also different from old pilots. They came back from training in Australia. In the past, many pilots were transferred from the army. In the past, civil aviation was a bit like a state-owned enterprise, and pilots didn't pay much attention to their own image. Nowadays, civil aviation is more like a foreign company, and the clothes of pilots are very handsome. The quality of pilots has also improved a lot, with serious and rigorous attitude and respect for others. In the past, some old pilots could put on airs and look down on flight attendants, but now pilots can't. We used to talk and laugh when reporting to the old pilots, but the young pilots were very serious. If you hip-hop with him, he will think that you are not serious about your work. Now pilots have another advantage, that is, they don't bring life emotions to work, and they are very professional. This may have a lot to do with social enrollment and space. Pilots are also under great pressure now. Sometimes they walk out of the cockpit, and they will never fully come out in that environment, frowning, and it takes a long time to recover.
Face to face with the pilot: the pilot in the eyes of his girlfriend
Lily:
I think pilots are relatively simple, have little contact with the outside world, and are skilled, so people are not so complicated. Simplicity and high income are two conditions that many occupations do not have. But the pilot is not free of time and can't take time off. He must be working during the holiday. As a girlfriend of a pilot, you need to be independent, because they are often away and you can't find him when you need him. A pilot's wife told me that when I woke up in the morning, I was always alone. As the other half of the pilot, many people are also worried about emotional instability, because they are always outside, you don't know what they are doing, and there are always beautiful stewardesses around.
Many older pilots, because of their hard work, hope to find a wife and mother who can take care of their families and take care of them. Some of them are male chauvinists. But young pilots are much better and have a good attitude towards their girlfriends and wives. If the pilots' boyfriends are different from others, I think they are more nervous and a little depressed. Because they have to concentrate for a long time and are very tired.
In fact, they also have many opportunities to play. Young people lead a crazy life. Because they are too nervous at work, they vent as soon as they relax. They are good at singing, dancing and drinking. And many pilots like sports. The girlfriends they are looking for are either colleagues, flight attendants or classmates from universities and middle schools. In fact, their contacts are very narrow.
Face-to-face with the pilot: a quick check by the pilot
income
Most people think that pilots earn more money and spend more money. In fact, the income of mainland pilots is lower than that of pilots from other countries. Leon, as the co-pilot of Boeing 777, has a monthly salary of 654.38+0 million. Tony, as the captain of Boeing 757, has a monthly salary of over 20,000. Of course, Leon goes out to eat by himself, spending one or two hundred yuan per meal, and he doesn't feel anything for a week; Seeing that what you like is not particularly expensive, you buy it without thinking much; You can still leave yourself a deposit of 3000 yuan every month.
In addition, the welfare of pilots is not much different from that outside. Young pilots have no welfare housing distribution and have to buy their own houses.
plane
Pilots are not allowed to mix planes. Leon can only drive a 777, and Tony can only drive a 757. In the past, some captains could fly a variety of models, but the current system stipulates that a pilot can only fly one model. Because the internal settings of different types of aircraft are different, I am afraid that the pilot will remember it for a while.
rest
The pilot's flight time is strictly controlled, and it does not exceed 100 hours a month (of course, the preparation time may be 160 hours). For routes with a continuous flight time zone of more than six hours, there must be a 48-hour continuous rest. Nevertheless, at the end of each flight, the pilot usually feels very tired, because he must concentrate on flying and can't slack off.
English
All pilots' professional English must be barrier-free and qualified, and many pilots' daily English communication is not a problem.
health
Pilots can smoke and drink alcohol at ordinary times, but they are not allowed to drink any alcoholic drinks or take any drugs 8 hours before the flight. If the pilot catches a cold, he should decide whether to continue flying according to the aviation medical appraisal and his own judgment. No one will insist, because life is at stake.
marry
Various censorship restrictions on pilot marriages have become a thing of the past. After corporatization, the only restriction is the age of marriage.
train
Before talking to them, there are often scenes in my mind, that is, when practicing, they can fly the plane to the left and right at will, and sometimes somersault in the air. Later, this kind of imagination was completely denied. Pilots basically don't practice on real planes, and passenger planes don't do somersaults in the air. The only thing a pilot practices on a real plane is taking off and landing, that is, taking off when there are few flights, hovering around the airport, and then landing.
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