A female trainee pilot of the China Air Force
undergoes flight training. [Photo: cnsphoto]
Female trainee pilots of the China Air Force
exchange their ideas after class. [Photo: cnsphoto]
Female trainee pilots undergo physical
training. [Photo: cnsphoto]
Female trainee pilots take an aviation
knowledge examination. [Photo: cnsphoto]
Female trainee pilots take a competency
examination. [Photo: cnsphoto]
Female trainee pilots take a group photo to
mark their time at university. [Photo: cnsphoto]
Twenty-nine female trainee pilots of the No.1 Air Force Flight
Academy successfully gained their qualifications to attend higher
level flying training on Thursday.
China News Service reported that all the pre-pilots, who have
enjoyed China's first-ever flying training system that includes 2.5
years of basic flying instruction and 1.5 years of flight training,
have passed comprehensive and tough examinations in nearly 100
subjects at the Aviation University of the Chinese PLA Air Force in
Changchun, capital of northern China's Jilin Province.
The university carried out its 8th recruitment of female pilots
in 2005, attracting more than 200,000 candidates at that time. Now,
only 29 elite pilots will have the necessary qualifications to
enter the final training stage.
Besides air transportation and air navigation, the school also
offers extra courses in airborne early warning systems, airborne
refueling and air reconnaissance to its trainee pilots for the
first time.
(CRI December 29, 2007)
