The first batch of female helicopter pilots of the PLA Army Aviation Academy completed the graduation exam. Among them, Xu Fengcan, born in 1999, has attracted great attention on the Internet in China because of her appearance.
According to a report from China CCTV News on June 20, the first batch of Chinese female flight cadets who graduated from the Army Aviation Academy ended all the courses.
It was reported that the female helicopter pilots have to make 30 laps in one minute, as well as basic military subjects such as 3,000-meter run and 400-meter run, plus ideological and political literacy, flying skills, and flight theory.
In the video broadcast by China’s CCTV, female helicopter pilot Xu Fengcan received great attention.
As early as September 19, 2020, China’s CCTV “News Network” broadcasted the news about Xu Fengcan’s first solo flight. At that time, the news rushed to the hot search, and many Chinese netizens praised, “She is so beautiful, and she flies so steady.”
Xu Fengcan, born in October 1999 and enlisted in the army in September 2017, is currently a flight cadet of the Army Aviation Academy and one of the first 10 female helicopter flight trainees in the Chinese army. She participated in the fifth “Eagle Cup” military skill competition of the academy and won the third prize. Since participating in the actual equipment training, she has taken the initiative to study and ranked first in the inspection and screening. She was determined as the first ‘first-release solo-fly’ female student and assisted other nine female pilots of the same batch to perform a solo mission. She was rated as an outstanding student and a winning student for two consecutive years.
It is understood that these female helicopter pilots were selected from more than 120,000 high school graduates in China in late August 2017, and they were the first batch of pilots trained by the Chinese Army.
From the light helicopters they first flew in 2020 to the current multi-purpose armed helicopters, the Chinese army’s first batch of independently trained 10 female helicopter flight trainees’ equipment change training progress has been accelerating – the armed helicopter equipment change training originally carried out in the army is now completed in advance during the school, in order to be more closely connected with combat power.
