A navigator is a person who works out the direction for an aircraft and guides the pilot's action. After the information secured by radar is sent to the command post, the navigator should quickly judge the situation facing the pilot, understand his or her tactical intent, and send certain key information to the pilot without any delay in air combat when seconds matter.
Generally speaking, it takes a navigator three to five years to get mature, and pilots should consider themselves lucky if their partners are experienced navigators. Jiang's navigators are Liu Bo and Nie Tianchun. They practice and live together, and can "read" one another's mind through eye contact or brief hints. "As if they were sitting in the back of my aircraft," Jiang said.
Translating pressure into momentum
As the youngest winner in the first "golden helmet" award, Jiang had attracted great attention and been under considerable pressure over the past year. Deep down, he hoped to prove his excellence again. "Show your techniques, and enjoy the fun of air combat. I was wondering how much progress I had made over the past year through difficult and high-intensity targeted training and how much progress that other pilots had made," Jiang said.
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