The helicopter is too important in Gao Yang's plan, so he can put everything first and have to see the plane first.
Many fighters stopped on the runway of the airport. Looking up, they were basically MIG planes, and MIG 27 took off and landed the most frequently. During his arrival, there had been four sorties.
A group of people left the runway and passed behind the fighter planes placed on both sides of the runway. After passing between the two hangars, they saw a large helicopter apron.
Arriving at the apron, in a corner near the airport command tower, gilanor pointed to three helicopters and said, "major, that's the plane prepared for you."
Two mi24 female deer armed transport helicopters and one MIG 17 Hippo transport helicopter. Gao Yang already knows what they will get. Not surprisingly, Syria is almost all Russian weapons. It can be said that there is nothing good in terms of helicopters that can be provided. In addition to these two things, Gao Yang doesn't expect Syria to provide any helicopters.
It can be seen from all angles that Syria attaches importance to this cooperation. Although the top person in charge of the airport did not appear and just sent a second lieutenant to meet, the vicinity of the three helicopters was full of people. Needless to ask, it must be the crew and specially arranged ground service.
There are two pilots next to the two Mi 24 helicopters, and three people stand next to MI 17, because there are three crew members of MI 17. In addition to the pilot and co pilot, there is also a random mechanic.
The flight performance of MI 17 is not as good as that of Black Hawk. The most annoying thing is that the crew must be three. Random mechanics are indispensable. Even one pilot can be removed, and random mechanics can not be missing. For Gao Yang, pilots are easy to find, but the professional counterpart of MI 17 random mechanics is too strong, which is really hard to find.
Gao Yang has been worried about whether Israel and Irene, Western trained pilots, can fly Russian aircraft. After all, the cockpit, operating system and instruments are different from what they flew before.
Fortunately, although Israel is not equipped with Russian helicopters, they have learned how to fly Russian aircraft in their training. After many wars, the Russian weapons seized by Israel have been stored by Israel and used as fake equipment for the enemy's troops or sealed in case, so jaklan and those old pilots have really practiced, Although it can't be very familiar, it won't be too strange. You can fly if you adapt.
Of course, the best way is to find pilots from Russia. After all, they are the ones who are most familiar with Russian aircraft, but unfortunately, good pilots have not been found, and Syrian pilots can't believe it, given their poor record and the average flight time of only 30 hours a year.
Several people went to the plane. Jacqueline and Irene, who drove the transport plane, went straight to the transport plane, while the four old pilots went directly to the side of MI 24.
Gao Yang walked to the side of the MI 24 helicopter, touched the double 23 mm machine gun installed on the nose, nodded and said, "is this the MI 24E?"
Gilanor immediately said, "yes, sir, both are m-24e."
The short wings of the two helicopters are loaded with 57 mm rocket nests, a pair of at6 anti tank missiles and a pair of 80 mm rocket nests. The nose is double mounted 23 mm machine guns, with strong firepower.
Gao Yang nodded with satisfaction, and the Syrian side took out all the good things at the bottom of the box.
At this time, Gao Yang saw several smaller helicopters on the far apron. He pointed to the small plane and said, "is that a gazelle?"
Gilanor immediately said, "yes, sir, sa-342l antelope helicopter."
Gao Yang thought for a moment and said, "I don't know you have a gazelle. Can you give us a gazelle and refit it to add a 12.7mm machine gun in the back seat space?"
If groliov wants to participate in assault operations, his ability will be wasted. Gao Yang doesn't want a machine gun artist to stay on the meter 24 to watch the excitement, nor does he want groliov to take the meter 17 and then hold the machine gun as an assault hand. What is suitable for groliov is to take a small and flexible helicopter to obtain a very good view in the air and carry out flexible and effective fire suppression.
Gao Yang put forward new requirements. Gilanor immediately said, "Sir, I will reflect your requirements to my superiors."
Gao Yang nodded, looked at the straight pilot standing by the helicopter, hesitated for a moment, and finally said, "Lieutenant, we have our own pilot. As a whole, we will use our own pilot, but I need you to provide a 17 meter onboard mechanic."
Gilanor said in a deep voice, "if you can ensure that your pilots have enough ability, it's no problem, sir."
Gao Yang nodded and said with a smile, "you don't have to worry about their ability. I have great confidence in them. Thank you for your cooperation, lieutenant. Can our pilot check the mechanical condition now?"
Gilanor immediately said, "of course, anytime."
Gao Yang snapped his fingers and said to Irene and Jacqueline's pilots, "do you know what to check?"
Jaklan laughed and said, "of course, of course, head. Hey, beauty, let's go in and have a look at the meter first?"
After four old pilots from Israel gathered together, the oldest pilot pointed to the helicopter behind him and said, "we want number one."
The pilot opposite him immediately said, "no! We want number one!"
"We are the best."
"Bah!"
"How can that compare?"
"Than flying, fighting, or the most peaceful way to flip a coin."
"OK, flip a coin. Do you have a coin?"
"No, that's longer than who's flight time."
"I have flown five aircraft models for 32 years, more than 5200 flight hours!"
"Oh, good boy, but I've flown all models for 35 years, more than 6500 flight hours."
After four old pilots gathered together and muttered for a while, a gray haired old man walked triumphantly to the helicopter newly painted into aircraft No. 1, while the other pair walked reluctantly to aircraft No. 2.
Gao Yang was silly. He also flew a helicopter, but there was only one civilian model. Then he had 20 hours of flight experience accompanied by a coach and 20 hours of solo flight experience, a total of 40 hours. The minimum for the United States to get a flight driver's license.
Checking an airplane is not like checking a car. Just open the engine cover. Checking an airplane is much more complicated.
The three pairs of people got on the plane, first in the cockpit, powered on to see the instruments, and then held high. They all dodged, the engine started, started the rotor on the ground, tried the engine a little, and then several pilots left the cockpit without any trouble. With the cooperation of the ground crew, they opened all the covers that could be opened and looked at them carefully.
After watching it, the Israeli pilot, who was not the oldest but had the longest flight time, walked towards Gao Yang, then frowned and said, "what my plane maintains is a piece of shit! I refuse to fly. Did you hear the sound of the engine? My mother in her eighties is much better than this plane!"
All who can deal with Gao Yang can speak English. Gilanor was unhappy when he heard it. He immediately frowned and said, "Sir, if you don't dare to fly, we have plenty of pilots!"
"I dare not fly? Ha ha, it's really funny! I'm not a ground crew, and I don't know the overhaul time limit of MI 17 engine, but tell me, do you carry out maintenance and maintenance according to the Russian maintenance manual? Yes?"
Gilanor frowned, but he didn't speak.
Gao Yang secretly shouted that it was bad. He was not afraid of conflict, but what he worried about happened, that is, the maintenance level of Syrian aircraft was as bad as he heard, or even worse.
Before coming to Syria, Gao Yang and jihad contacted many times, and jihad promised that their aircraft was absolutely no problem. Unfortunately, Jihad and Gao Yang did not have the same standards for reliability, and the most troublesome thing is that Gao Yang still had no experience and thought that he and Jihad had had the same standards for aircraft reliability and safety.
Just then, Irene and Jacqueline got off the plane.
Life-threatening events should not be vague, nor should they be reserved because they want to save face. Irene frowned and shook her head at Gao Yang: "don't open it. The maintenance is too bad."
Gao Yang sighed helplessly, then said to gilanor, "Lieutenant, can you send your best ground service and mechanics?"
Gilanor wanted to say something, but he finally said with some sadness and anger: "it's all here."
Gao Yang understands gilanor. He must have a sense of humiliation at this time. The country is poor and the army is weak. He was criticized by a group of outsiders, saying that this is not good and that is not good. It's strange that he can feel better as a soldier.
But the fact is the fact. Gilanor is a technical talent. He should know what the fact is, and the fact is that they are right.
Gao Yang was a little helpless. At this time, the old pilot said: "I'm not afraid of being shot down by missiles or anti-aircraft guns in the sky, but I can't accept driving a plane with problems. It's my problem to be shot down, but I can't stand the mechanical failure. If you want to fly these planes, you must carry out the proper maintenance, comprehensive, detailed and systematic maintenance to ensure that there are no problems, so you can either give me an excellent one The show mechanic is in charge of my plane, or I leave. "
Irene said with a tangled face: "Sir, this plane is really not good. Maybe it hasn't had an accident after flying ten times and a hundred times, but it may fall down from heaven for the first time. This, this is really not guaranteed."
After scratching his head, Gao Yang waved his hand and said, "well, we still have time. The personnel haven't come yet. Wait for me for three days, I'll find you an excellent mechanic to ensure that your plane is safe."