The regiment carrier-based aircraft of the Northern Fleet appeared young change

For 28-year-old officer, it was the same day that the pilots of marine fighters waiting his entire career. One hundred kilometers from the coast on an aircraft carrier, "Kuznetsov" was all ready to board the Su-33. It is then on the ground, after landing the pilot acknowledged that at the time when coming from behind the clouds and saw the deck of an aircraft carrier, heart trembled. But the next moment he remembered how planting a hundred times his plane on the simulator, and even the night before the departure he dreamed of this hook. "Catch – it is a pleasant surprise, got caught – so well done, lucky, not caught – a missed approach", – says the pilot of a separate naval fighter regiment of the Northern Fleet, Vyacheslav Lunin. On this day, go to the second round did not need another young pilot. Maj. Andrey Pestov became the 16th in a row pilot in the regiment, who managed to land the multi-ton fighter on the deck of an aircraft carrier. Commanders do not hide the joy. In the shelf, where the majority of pilots over 40, there was a young replacement. So, years of hard training were not wasted. After all, there were cases where pilots have completed their career, never once felt under a steel deck aircraft carrier. "The whole landing site is very small – only 36 meters from the first to the fourth wire, and of 2-3 meters on either side, but that's the limit – on the brink of a foul," – said Paul Podguzov, deputy commander of the naval fighter regiment of the Northern Fleet. They are less than an astronaut, and if a few years ago because of financial problems was the question: whether to be a general carrier-based aircraft in Russia, now the command of the regiment is building long-term plans. They are connected including the emergence of new sea fighter. Professional easy to distinguish a carrier-based fighter from land-based counterpart. In a deck aircraft best view from the cockpit, the wings fold to a sharp deceleration reinforced chassis, and under the tail there is a special device – hook. Only with the help of the pilot during landing may cling to the taut rope on the deck of an aircraft carrier. And still decked out flyers there is a tradition associated with the hook, from which the work depends largely on the pilot life – after the first successful landing on the deck of the pilot is carried to a Gaku. The aircraft carrier, "Kuznetsov", which celebrated this year the 25-year anniversary, in order, his crew will soon be a distant expedition, and so the young pilots will be time to consolidate their skills in the open ocean.