First batch of J-10 pilots produced by flight academy to join air force combat troops

By Wang Chuan and Li Jianwen

SHIJIAZHUANG, July 22 — The primary batch of J-10 cadet pilots, 23 years outdated on common and straight skilled by the air power flight academy, bought able to be assigned to the fight items of the PLA Air Power (PLAAF) upon commencement on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, during 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 endure 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 capable of get hold of 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 keeping with the coaching program of fight troops, and the extent of coaching was additionally akin 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. Throughout the coaching course of，the pilot cadets held confrontational drills with the PLA Military 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 capable of carry out fight missions on third-generation plane upon commencement.

The trial of the brand new coaching mode serves as an vital measure for the PLAAF to implement the technique of strengthening the armed forces via coaching of competent personnel within the new period. It’s of nice significance to deepening the reform of navy coaching and rushing up the era of latest fight capabilities.