Zhai Keyi, a young man born in the 2000s, joined the military from his hometown of Huaihua, Hunan with a dream of an aircraft carrier. The Dragon Year and Spring Festival are approaching, and the temperature outside the pass has dropped to around minus 20 degrees Celsius. In order to achieve his first solo flight in life, he and his comrades are diligently training at a certain base of Naval Aviation University on the Bohai Bay. A new batch of carrier based aircraft flight trainees are undergoing land-based simulation landing training (data photos). Zhai Keyi and his comrades are the latest batch of carrier based aircraft pilots in China. When they were born, our country did not yet have an aircraft carrier. In recent years, according to the training model of naval carrier based aircraft pilots, batches of outstanding young people have joined the carrier based aircraft forces. Some of them are selected from ordinary high school students to study at Naval Aviation University, while others are dual student students jointly trained with Tsinghua University, Peking University, and other universities. A new batch of carrier based aircraft flight trainees are undergoing land-based simulation landing training (data photos). After years of theoretical learning and training, they arrived at this base, as seen by Xinhua Social Development (photographed by Lan Pengfei). Here, they will go through the final round of screening and elimination to welcome the pilot's blue sky coming of age ceremony - solo flight. The assessment was arranged after the Spring Festival, and their flight plan was also scheduled until the eve of the Spring Festival. Zhou Qingyuan, born in the Year of the Dragon, is a post-00s generation with dual enrollment at Peking University and Naval Aviation University. Faced with the upcoming assessment, he wakes up at 6 o'clock and flies at 8 o'clock every day. After flying in the afternoon, he participates in the evaluation, receives the flight briefing at night, and then starts preparing for autonomous flight the next day. A new batch of carrier based aircraft flight trainees are undergoing land-based simulation landing training (data photos). Xinhua News Agency (Photo by Lan Pengfei) - With a full and fulfilling life, Zhou Qingyuan felt like he was going through a second year of high school. In his limited free time, he has to set aside time every day to run, 2 kilometers in the morning and 2 kilometers in the evening, and pace for 5 minutes. "This is a way to relieve stress. As you run, your brain becomes clearer and your goals become clearer," Zhou Qingyuan said. In order to learn how to fly, flight students including Zhou Qingyuan spend more than 12 hours of study time every day, and their weekend spots are often vacant proportionally. People born in the 2000s are willing to spend their spare time on simulators and flight training. A new batch of carrier based aircraft flight trainees are undergoing land-based simulation landing training (data photos). "The Spring Festival is approaching, and I really want to go home early to visit my parents, but I have no intention of planning for the Chinese New Year," said Zhai Keyi, who is also a dragon. When I first entered the land-based simulation course training, it was always difficult to feel it. The more I flew, the more problems I found myself. 24 seconds is the time it takes for a carrier based aircraft pilot to join the approach route and successfully land on the ship. Zhai Keyi said that he waited for 24 years for these 24 seconds. He is also full of confidence in the assessment after the Spring Festival. After the last takeoff and landing before the Spring Festival, flight instructor Wang Peng, who was sitting in the rear cabin, patted the shoulder of flight student Wang Xinyu and said, "The throttle control is not very good, but the overall flight is still good." Wang Xinyu breathed a sigh of relief. Also born in the Year of the Dragon, his mother just bought him a few days ago