By Wang Chuan and Li Jianwen
SHIJIAZHUANG, July 22 — The primary batch of J-10 cadet pilots, 23 years previous on common and instantly skilled by the air pressure flight academy, received able to be assigned to the fight models of the PLA Air Power (PLAAF) upon commencement on July 21.
In 2020, the PLAAF launched the trial of the brand new mode of pilot cadets coaching on the Shijiazhuang Flight Academy, through which the J-10 fighter jet was launched because the coach plane for the primary time. In line with the earlier coaching mode, a pilot cadet wanted to bear 4 to 6 years of flight coaching earlier than being certified for flying the third-generation fighter jet. Now the pilot cadets skilled in accordance with this new mode are in a position to acquire combatant qualification for third-generation fighters after receiving solely three years of flight coaching.
These cadets had been randomly chosen from the pilot cadets of the PLA Air Power Aviation College. With the J-10 fighter jets launched to be their coach aircrafts, they underwent all of the coaching topics for acquiring the combatant qualification in response to the coaching program of fight troops, and the extent of coaching was additionally corresponding to that of the fight troops with the identical sort of plane.
The brand new coaching mode highlights elevating these pilot cadets’ air fight functionality. Through the coaching course of，the pilot cadets held confrontational drills with the PLA Army air-defense troops, and the proportion of tactical coaching objects, such because the multi-aircraft air fight and reside firing operations, has additionally been elevated. All these efforts have helped speed up the transformation from pilot cadets to certified combatants, who’re in a position to carry out fight missions on third-generation plane upon commencement.
The trial of the brand new coaching mode serves as an essential measure for the PLAAF to implement the technique of strengthening the armed forces by means of coaching of competent personnel within the new period. It’s of nice significance to deepening the reform of navy coaching and rushing up the technology of latest fight capabilities.
