PLA Extends Pilot Training to High Schools

bladerunner

Banned Idiot
I wasnt sure if this bit of news had been introduced into any of the threads.

Its a bit hard on not being allowed to have any girlfriends though.

I wonder, if by introducing martial arts as part of the physical ciriculum in the trainining process, can help in improving situational awareness?


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China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force has launched a program to train talented high school students as pilots, military sources said on Monday.
The Air Force had begun a special class in Baoding No. 1 High School, in Hebei Province, to train selected students, Wu Mou, director of the Air Force's bureau responsible for pilot recruitment, told Xinhua.
Twenty-four students from the first grade at the senior high school, will take special physical trainings to improve their flexibility, coordination and balance.
They will also take aviation education programs along with the standard curriculum and operate paramotors and gliders in aviation clubs to gain flying experience.
The students were selected from 350 candidates from 59 high schools in the province after a series of physical and psychological exams.
To become a member of the class, a candidate had to meet strict requirements for height (162cm to 175cm), weight (45kg to 48kg), have a an excellent sense of three-dimensional space and eyesight, according to a regulation issued by the Air Force.
The qualified students should have no criminal record and no girlfriends, according to the regulation.
The PLA Air Force recruits about 1,000 pilot trainees each year mainly from graduates of high schools, colleges and universities. Those graduates from the Air Force's special class need to pass the national college entrance examination before being recruited.
The PLA has trained students with outstanding physical and psychological capabilities at the last year of senior high school since 1998. The class in Baoding No. 1 High School is the first for the Air Force to put the training in an earlier phase.
Wu said the Air Force planned to set up 10 more special classes at the first year of senior high schools around the country by 2012.
The PLA Air Force planned to recruit about 1,100 pilot trainees this year from China's high school and college graduates.
The Air Force recruitment offices around the country received about 7,000 more applications than last year with greater attention and enthusiasts among Chinese youth thanks to the high-profile demonstration of the air shows on the National Day parade and a series of celebrations to mark the Air Force's 60th founding anniversary in 2009. ................
 

plawolf

Lieutenant General
Smells fishy. The weight requirement is certainly wrong as 45kg/90lb is the weight fashion models would be pleased with.
 

vesicles

Colonel
I wonder, if by introducing martial arts as part of the physical ciriculum in the trainining process, can help in improving situational awareness?

I didn't see any mentioning of "martial arts" in the part of the article posted. "special physical trainings to improve their flexibility, coordination and balance" does not mean kung fu in case that is what you talk about...

I hate it when people automatically assume I know kung fu simply because I'm a Chinese. Yes, I spend 10 years in schools in China and took PE class every year. And yes, many things we did in PE classes had been designed to improve "flexibility, coordination and balance", but kung fu was never taught in class and I know absolutely ZERO kung fu. I still remember when I was in high school in the States, kids always wanted to challenge me to a kung fu match. And I know that usually was NOT supposed to a "friendly" joke...
 
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bladerunner

Banned Idiot
I didn't see any mentioning of "martial arts" in the part of the article posted. "special physical trainings to improve their flexibility, coordination and balance" does not mean kung fu in case that is what you talk about...

I was merely speculating on whether they would introduce martial arts, as I believe it helps in developing sittuational awareness
Having gone to all this trouble, I would suggest, that the PLAAF would come to regard their pilots as elite servicemen. In which case being prepared to loose them at a 10/1 ratio as you suggested in an earlier discussion, surely would'nt be part of a PLAAF General's mindset would it?

I hate it when people automatically assume I know kung fu simply because I'm a Chinese. Yes, I spend 10 years in schools in China and took PE class every year. And yes, many things we did in PE classes had been designed to improve "flexibility, coordination and balance", but kung fu was never taught in class and I know absolutely ZERO kung fu. I still remember when I was in high school in the States, kids always wanted to challenge me to a kung fu match. And I know that usually was NOT supposed to a "friendly" joke...

Why not capatalise on it, even if you didn't. In my younger days I was told a had a striking resemblence to Bruce Lee. Just imagine the ribbing I had to take.My local butcher use to carry on about it all the time in front of other customers when i walked into his shop. I tell the other customers thats why he gives me the best cuts of meat at a good price:)

These are a bunch of 15 year olds. It's possible that they might weigh a little less.

I think it would be pretty hard though. My youngest kids 15 fit as a fiddle and no fat on him as he plays a lot of sport. He stands 5' 5" and weighs 50kg
 
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