CV-16 Liaoning (001 carrier) Thread II ...News, Views and operations
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Hendrik_2000
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The Liaoning air wing is fully staffed with 32 pilot for 24 planes. The latest batch(6th) of J15 pilots are recently carrier qualified. I think there more than 32 his assumption of 6 retire from service is flaw
They really put the Liaoning thru paces with this new batch and fulfilled her mission to train pilot for carrier landing
Last week, Liaoning , the Chinese carrier of the Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning , welcomed a new wave of J-15 air carrier pilots who landed their first landing and take-off on the ship.
These maneuvers, which took place from May 27th to June 5th in Bohai Bay, mean that these young pilots finally obtained the famous certificate, enabling them to carry out deck landing on the Chinese aircraft carrier, after training that Lasted nearly 4 years.
This would be, if our analysis is correct, the 6th promotion of J-15 aircraft pilots formed by the Chinese Navy since 2009, which brings back the number of J-15 pilots declared fit to operate on the door -avions Liaoning to 32, to a minimum.
Indeed, we know that the first 5 waves of training have trained 31 pilots of J-15 (see our dossier " " released in August 2016) in total. Assuming that 15% of staff have left the ranks for various reasons (retirement ... etc) at the end of 2016, and that this 6th promotion brings back 6 new pilots as was the case for the previous 3 training campaigns, We are now at least 32 pilots from J-15 at least trained.
Knowing that the Liaoning aircraft carrier , alias Type 001 , can take a squadron of 24 J-15 fighter jets on board, this means that the first airborne group of the Chinese navy is now complete, regardless of our scenarios .
The number of naval pilots trained versus the need for pilots of Chinese aircraft carriers (Image: East Pendulum)
This situation is not surprising, however, our calculation updated in December last year (see the dossier " ") had already this, but we also know now that the Chinese navy will have enough pilots to Its second aircraft carrier, the Liaoning sistership , by 2020 at the latest.
These results, which seem to be satisfactory for a navy that scarcely discovers the excellent tool of force projection that represents a carrier group, nevertheless have a price to pay, namely blood.
, published on Wednesday, newspaper of the , where we learned of the recent certification of the new pilots of J-15, tells us that one of the pilots qualified a week ago Liaoning is actually part of the previous promotion.
He was not able to get his certificate in August last year not because he was put off for bad performance but simply because he had been injured in an accident of his plane that took place On 6 April 2016.
After a failure of the flight control system of his aircraft, CAO Xian Jian (先 建 建), then deputy commander of Unit No. 92950 (China Air Force Unit), was seriously wounded Of its late ejection. The man had attempted to "save" his plane during a flight training at the Naval Aviation Pilot Training Center in Xincheng.
CAO, with its J-15 fighter aircraft number 121
CAO after its first successful landing on the Liaoning.
And another J-15 pilot, ZHANG Chao, died three weeks later in a fatal accident of his 117 aircraft (see our file " ") during the landing In the same center.
It was on board the J-15 number 121, the 22nd of the series, that CAO realized what he had not been able to do more than a year ago. According to the text, he was the first of his promotion to land on the aircraft carrier Liaoning on May 30, and the first also to take off from the same flight deck a day later, and all this according to his own request.
As to the exact location of this 10 - day certification campaign, China Maritime Safety Administration Notification LN0084 tells us that the maneuvering area is located on the west coast of Bohai Bay, Xincheng training.
It is also here that last year the campaign of qualification of the pilots of naval aviation of the 5th promotion.
The Bohai Sea Area where the new J-15 pilots made their first deck (Image: East Pendulum)
At the rate of a new promotion launched every six months, which trains between 6 and 12 pupils pilots to the trade, the Chinese navy seems to have taken up the challenge to establish a complete training program for its naval air pilots and to build a set Infrastructures and associated tools, in order to better arm its aircraft carriers and face a potentially turbulent period around 2020.
To be continued.
Henri K.
They really put the Liaoning thru paces with this new batch and fulfilled her mission to train pilot for carrier landing
Last week, Liaoning , the Chinese carrier of the Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning , welcomed a new wave of J-15 air carrier pilots who landed their first landing and take-off on the ship.
These maneuvers, which took place from May 27th to June 5th in Bohai Bay, mean that these young pilots finally obtained the famous certificate, enabling them to carry out deck landing on the Chinese aircraft carrier, after training that Lasted nearly 4 years.
This would be, if our analysis is correct, the 6th promotion of J-15 aircraft pilots formed by the Chinese Navy since 2009, which brings back the number of J-15 pilots declared fit to operate on the door -avions Liaoning to 32, to a minimum.
Indeed, we know that the first 5 waves of training have trained 31 pilots of J-15 (see our dossier " " released in August 2016) in total. Assuming that 15% of staff have left the ranks for various reasons (retirement ... etc) at the end of 2016, and that this 6th promotion brings back 6 new pilots as was the case for the previous 3 training campaigns, We are now at least 32 pilots from J-15 at least trained.
Knowing that the Liaoning aircraft carrier , alias Type 001 , can take a squadron of 24 J-15 fighter jets on board, this means that the first airborne group of the Chinese navy is now complete, regardless of our scenarios .
The number of naval pilots trained versus the need for pilots of Chinese aircraft carriers (Image: East Pendulum)
This situation is not surprising, however, our calculation updated in December last year (see the dossier " ") had already this, but we also know now that the Chinese navy will have enough pilots to Its second aircraft carrier, the Liaoning sistership , by 2020 at the latest.
These results, which seem to be satisfactory for a navy that scarcely discovers the excellent tool of force projection that represents a carrier group, nevertheless have a price to pay, namely blood.
, published on Wednesday, newspaper of the , where we learned of the recent certification of the new pilots of J-15, tells us that one of the pilots qualified a week ago Liaoning is actually part of the previous promotion.
He was not able to get his certificate in August last year not because he was put off for bad performance but simply because he had been injured in an accident of his plane that took place On 6 April 2016.
After a failure of the flight control system of his aircraft, CAO Xian Jian (先 建 建), then deputy commander of Unit No. 92950 (China Air Force Unit), was seriously wounded Of its late ejection. The man had attempted to "save" his plane during a flight training at the Naval Aviation Pilot Training Center in Xincheng.
CAO, with its J-15 fighter aircraft number 121
CAO after its first successful landing on the Liaoning.
And another J-15 pilot, ZHANG Chao, died three weeks later in a fatal accident of his 117 aircraft (see our file " ") during the landing In the same center.
It was on board the J-15 number 121, the 22nd of the series, that CAO realized what he had not been able to do more than a year ago. According to the text, he was the first of his promotion to land on the aircraft carrier Liaoning on May 30, and the first also to take off from the same flight deck a day later, and all this according to his own request.
As to the exact location of this 10 - day certification campaign, China Maritime Safety Administration Notification LN0084 tells us that the maneuvering area is located on the west coast of Bohai Bay, Xincheng training.
It is also here that last year the campaign of qualification of the pilots of naval aviation of the 5th promotion.
The Bohai Sea Area where the new J-15 pilots made their first deck (Image: East Pendulum)
At the rate of a new promotion launched every six months, which trains between 6 and 12 pupils pilots to the trade, the Chinese navy seems to have taken up the challenge to establish a complete training program for its naval air pilots and to build a set Infrastructures and associated tools, in order to better arm its aircraft carriers and face a potentially turbulent period around 2020.
To be continued.
Henri K.
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I see the PLAN CV pilot program is progressing nicely. Excellent! They've come a Long, long way in a few short years.
However,...I want to see videos or photos of night operations that include>>> Take offs, arrested landings, UNREPS & VERTREPs..still waiting.
However,...I want to see videos or photos of night operations that include>>> Take offs, arrested landings, UNREPS & VERTREPs..still waiting.
asif iqbal
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Good trend as carriers come online building up naval air pilots
Very robust programme
Very robust programme
I like how the PLAN is recruiting young men to be Naval aviators. The Russians on the other hand must be having difficulty getting Naval aviators. I say this because the majority of their pilots look to be mature men in their 40s and 50s.
These men are very mature. Check out those bellies..
Now this man looks like a Naval aviator
These men are very mature. Check out those bellies..
Now this man looks like a Naval aviator
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Intrepid
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Their last initial carrier qualification was about twenty years ago.
Blackstone
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True, but where are the newly minted Russian carrier pilots?
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