means major upgrade coming in J-20B ?
You mean that because the poster said the following in bold texts?
It seems the J-20 has gotten lower on the secrecy scale Allowing people outside of the PLA and AVIC to sit in the cockpit She's a test pilot from the China Test Pilot School, part of the Northwestern Polytechnical University
I think the poster was wrong. Her school is part of NWPU but ONLY providing training to CFTE of AVIC, nobody else. So anyone enrolled in that school has the highest security clearance within AVIC and PLA. Besides, NWPU is not an ordinary university, some of their staff has security clearance equal to that of AVIC, they are directly involved in top secrete programs.
Here is about the school, it was established in 1994.
近日,中国首批
试飞员博士生正式进入西北工业大学学习,标志着西北工业大学成为全国第一家培养试飞员博士生的高校。
Test pilot to receive doctorial education in aerodynamics etc from NWPU.
据介绍,
试飞员需要驾驶尚未定型的飞机,对各种极限条件下的飞行数据进行全面考核,离极限太远,将无法测出飞机的可靠性和先进性,但每一次逼近极限,后果又都是未知。因此,如何培养“专家型”高端试飞人才一直是各国倍加重视的问题。
Test pilot for uncertified aircraft, such as J-20 and later H-20
为建设航空强国,
西北工业大学与中国飞行试验研究院于1992年提出联合成立中国试飞员学院,
学院挂靠西北工业大学,并于1994年正式挂牌。学院的成立标志着我国成为亚洲唯一和继美、英、俄、法之后世界第5个拥有专门培养高层次试飞员的国家。
The school is a JV of NWPU and AVIC CFTE, it is only administratively part of NWPU.