Big Sky Ivan Atroshchenko

55 years ago, on 15 September all over the world started a fresh era of aviation. One of the first in the world passenger jet aircraft – a Soviet Tu-104 – soared into the Moscow sky with a hundred people on board. Overcoming half of the country with incredible speed in those cases (some 3nadtsati 6:00 instead!), A winged vehicle landed … in Irkutsk. After half a century-plus later historic flight met by those who put on r1u jet wings – Irkutsk pilots, navigators, radio operators, engineers, dispatchers and flight attendants. Veterans of the famous 201 units of civil aviation in the good old days of the best in the Union. Those who have not forgotten, actually the pilot jet was once akin to astronaut, and the boys wanted polls weightless ocean. Those who, God forbid, yet does not forget the science beat, and knows how to teach us this. … And yet, as soon as they intends to work together, is somehow immediately see how amazing a person dannyeh people and how they combine the power and humanity. About specialty flyer yesterday and is now with us said one of the first commanders of the Tu-104 Ivan Atroshchenko. – As a child during the war I was in the occupation and I remember how in the forty-third year of our village, drove the Germans. Nearby was a meadow, and it soon began to land our planes not heavy. I in those cases was 11 years old, and we boys from the whole village, not too close to malokratno spinning, have the opportunity to help pilots. Somehow I managed, as soon obletyvali plane, get into the cockpit. And I flew! So turn on the data itself and only dreamed of heaven, – tells Ivan Makarovich. Him, the high representative of eighty strong sex in a jacket with the medals on a plastic chair cramped. His sumptuous, only the affected gray mustache and laughing blue eyes. Around not too malokratno boils conversation and see how respected his former colleagues. Grew together with the aviation Honored Pilot of the USSR remembers the first time I sat at the helm of the Tu-104 in 1960, before Gagarin's flight. Then the pilots for the development of a fresh car were taken in the literal are interpreted as characters: – When started the collection of pilots for the Tu-104, our commander sent a request: one of your flyers you would have put state awards? He sent the list with our names. In return, the order we were put at the helm of fresh aircraft … You know, in that era, as soon as improved aircraft, we have tried to excellence s3mitsya together with her. Many, who did not have high education, they went into the cases in higher education, to think broadly and sobstvennoby be decent taxi dannyemi vehicles. During his flying century Ivan Atroshchenko spent more than fifteen thousand hours in the sky – 2 years in the ocean of air. He was entrusted with hundreds of thousands of lives. For these 2 years with not a single car accident happened. – I'm probably happy, in fact all my life otdeystvoval without incident. I remember the autumn, in early October 1987, we flew out of Mineral Waters in Simferopol. The airport, where we come from, was closed by fog, and one which followed, was also shut because of fog. And in those cases represent the first time I prayed in my life: the Mother of God, help me, please. And suddenly we receive the news: in Anapa on time opened an illusion. And we're going to Anapa. It was evident only from a height of 2000 meters, blinded coastal searchlights, but we just went in and sat down safely. "Guys, for you – life" Passenger aircraft commander had not raised in the air since 1988, but until 2008, with dozens of pilots from Irkutsk, Yakutsk, Khabarovsk, Vladivostok, he went into the painted sky – hunted in the gym. He says, in fact almost always repeating the pilots: the children, remember, actually behind your back hundreds of lives. Agree whether the commander is actually vremyashnie pilots relaxed with the advent of automation? – Yes, but not important in this. We have lost the system by which trained pilots. Today started doing something totally impossible – to protect steel plaque. As soon as I have already worked in the gym, I met an absolutely young pilots with little skill, koie come to learn to fly a Tu-154. They got lost and had absolutely no opportunity to work in difficult situations. And these days a car accident occurred – where they do not? But in those cases were taken as rigid pilots, do not forget: their shoulders lives. Aviation put its signature to the verdict as soon have shattered it to the private airlines, the main purpose of which – made difficult. Not command the pilot! Ivan Atroshchenko: – You know, at this moment all of the pilots say. I remember in 1976 was a disaster Tu-104, not too little of it is not stated. Survived in those cases, only one stewardess Galina, koiya lives in my neighborhood. We are officially told, actually all the fault of the crew oversight. In fact, on this plane were carried out heavy testing, trained astronauts. And right off the plane crashed. On this hushed and blamed the pilots. And now – as soon as the pilot profession ceases to be strongly influential, since the pilot have a good chance to command the "top" – it does not take the accident? "AIF in the Sun": – And why the boys are now at least dream of heaven? IE : – First, the fact itself less and less Russian aircraft – taken as "shabby" foreign Airbus and "Boeing". Second, the airline will try to take a skilled pilot, whom the country less. Posmo3te, a Number of flight and engineering schools is blocked … "AIF in the Sun": – What is now needed, sobstvennoby be a good pilot? IE: – Physical training, sports such as. I was good before the flight school – all the property, the property-country skiing in winter, the three would walk the 7 miles to school. The second – the desire and memory. The worst thing for the pilot – actually forget something, something is not done, but such situations are very often result in complex flight conditions to the most serious in posledstviidstviyam. I think as long as the former get better training, all of our reborn in Russia. … I may seem at first glance, it is somewhere close – the second birth of aviation. With his grandson, koy operates an aircraft factory, and Ivan, we made the reservation a fresh airliner like our Tu-104 at two hundred passengers (MC-21-trunk aircraft of the XXI century. – Ed.). But it goes only to 2014. And since all military aircraft are being prepared for foreign countries – they sold in India, in Iraq and too little is left to its own aircraft. And that, in fact it there is no cash, I do not believe it. … I had to meet older people koie do not believe in their country. I've seen young, koie it did not believe some people including considers this stylish. Ivan Makarovich believes contrary to all – believe in the reality of its own steering wheel or the runway. As the sky above his head. Dossier: Ivan Atroshchenko appeared September 7, 1932 in the Belarusian village Horoshevka. He graduated from the Army Aviation School Balashov specialty "bomber pilot, a distant aircraft." In 1959 he was mobilized on the famous Khrushchev's orders, "twelve hundred". Half a century has given civil aviation, one of the first in the country and studied the Tu-104 and Tu-154. Said the 56-anniversary of the common life with his wife. Brings three great-grandchildren.