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Tri Con Airlines has nine thousand pilots and they need more. When Tri Con hires eight new pilots and assigns them to a pilot class, they find the ground school and flight simulator challenge more than expected. The class is a mix of former military pilots and civilians with varying experience, including a former female flight attendant. Who can survive The Pilot Class and meet the challenge of flying the line as a Tri Con first officer. Personal relationships, a married flight attendant with an abusive husband, a major airline accident, and the federal government are all obstacles that stand in the way of The Pilot Class.
- Sales Rank: #2368461 in Books
- Published on: 2015-01-28
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .72" w x 6.00" l, .94 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 318 pages
About the Author
Harrison Jones writes aviation fiction from a personal perspective. Before becoming an airline pilot, his forty year career included an enlistment in the U.S. Navy followed by stints as an aircraft mechanic, a pilot ground school instructor and a flight instructor. He retired as an international captain with more than 20,000 hours in the cockpit and extensive flying throughout Europe, Asia, South America, and the Middle East. While serving as a volunteer Civil Reserve Air Fleet pilot during Operation Iraqi Freedom, he was recognized by the Air Mobility Command with the Aerial Achievement Medal for flying numerous troop transport missions into Kuwait. His writing features realism and plausibility that is uncommon in aviation novels. Harrison’s method has been described as separating fiction from fantasy by developing plot that is not only possible but could easily show up in tomorrow’s headlines. Harrison says, “My career has blessed me with an endless supply of colorful characters and I allow them to dialogue freely. My narrative is there to simply keep them in scene and herd them all toward a final conclusion.” A native Georgian, Harrison lives near Atlanta with his wife, Diane.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
Send in the drones
By The SkyWriter
Here we have a story about a group of airline pilots in training, and the peripheral, administrative, instructional, clerical and sanctioning personnel they interact with to earn their stripes and fly the line. Complication arises, as it always does. First, an engine explodes, an uncontained turbine rupture that penetrates the cabin of an MD-88, injuring a flight attendant. Then another attendant is mauled by her uncontained husband, and the group of trainees circle the wagons to protect her, while working toward their wings. The loser husband continues his losing ways by getting fired, then getting served with divorce papers. He implicates his (somewhat ditzy) wife in a drug scam, and she goes to jail. Then her grampa dies leaving her a ton of cash, the soon to be ex plots his revenge, and then... The plot thickens, as they say.
With several themes weaving in and out like so many airplanes converging on the approach gate, the author has stitched together quite a tale of intrigue based on the airline business. Tri Con Airlines has all the usual culprits, snarky, hyper competitive pilots of course, admin weenies who wouldn't know a VSI from a GPS, flight attendants who have the number of every pilot who ever hit on them, and know the perfect response, FAA types as interchangeable as wiper blades and about as effective and even a U.S. Senator worried about his image in an airport expansion bid. Indeed, The Pilot Class is mostly a book about people who happen to find themselves operating, servicing and monetizing airplanes.
Like many books on technical subjects, readers must suspend disbelief a bit here, but that's okay. Jets really do experience turbine blade failures, and they really do have whole engines depart from the fuselage. Not often, but it happens. This is fiction, and fiction authors are allowed a bit of latitude. It's a good story, with technically excellent writing and characterizations. It hangs together very well and keeps the reader cruising along. There's just enough shadow to keep things interesting, the bad guy gets his comeuppance and there's a happy, sensible ending. The author clearly knows his subject, and his characters are not only real and engaging, they're darned fun to read about as well. Dialogue between MJ and Kyle, for example is such a hoot that I found myself reading over it again, just for the little twinge of pleasure the snarky, spot-on exchanges brought into my head. This may be the rare flying book that women will enjoy, since the female characters emerge as the strong ones, in many cases.
The book did have a few minor flaws. It's not likely that a drone could wander loose around a major airport undetected, either by the radar folks or on a pilot's fish finder. Emotional reactions to the crash were too muted, not really explored in any depth. It's true that aviation people are a pretty somber bunch, but still. Also, we're never told what happened to the original flight attendant. A few typos found their way into the tale, but overall this is a good, very satisfying read. Three stars only because I was immersed in that business for so many years and know the liberties that the author took. But don't let that stop you. This is a good, insightful story behind the scenes of the airlines and the people travelers meet there. And yes, the title works: pilots are a classy bunch.
Byron Edgington, author of The Sky Behind Me: A Memoir of Flying & Life
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Another excellent novel from Harrison Jones
By Agent Orange
Once again, the aviation writer and former airline pilot Harrison Jones has published a very good and well-researched novel, with a great deal of drama, suspense, humor, and this time a bigger-than-expected dose of romance as well. I particularly enjoyed the many jokes which the characters trade among themselves in dialogue -- at times I was on the floor laughing! The plot, while somewhat stretching the bounds of the possible in a few places, still highlights a very plausible disaster scenario -- that of a midair collision between passenger aircraft and UAVs -- and the characters are portrayed very well, particularly MJ the lady detective, as well as Cindy the abused stewardess and her monster of an ex-husband. But most importantly, the detective drama keeps the audience guessing, with an unexpected twist near the end to surprise the readers (it sure did surprise me), and even a kind of "Rashomon effect" which will keep the reader guessing even after reading the last page. All in all, while this novel is not quite as awesome as Harrison's previous masterpiece "Shadow Flight" -- there are a few minor plot holes here and there -- it is still a great read, and highly recommended to all aviation fans.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
One story or two?
By Juliette Bravo
I'm a fan of aviation thrillers and I'd read Jones's Equal Time Point, so I was happy to find The Pilot Class. It was only in reading the book that I realized he was using some of the same characters and that there was another book in between the two, but The Pilot Class stood on its own.
The novel really seemed to be two different stories. I'm not sure if they just weren't quite that well interwoven or if Jones had two ideas that he felt didn't each merit their own novel. The beginning of the book focused on a new hire class of pilots for a major airline. One of those pilots had been a flight attendant and had a friend with an abusive husband, thus started the second half of the novel about a plane crash that may or may not have been engineered by the vindictive husband in revenge for his wife leaving him. The crash investigation really didn't involve any of the characters from the pilot class, save for one who was affected on the ground when the crash happened, so the deviation from the original storyline was pretty noticeable.
Jones is like many thriller authors, most notably Clive Cussler, who is very talented at creating an overall plot, but his characters are a bit underdeveloped and their dialogue doesn't read the way people actually speak. Jones manages to make up for it by packing the novel with detailed information about flight and the operations of a major airline. It was interesting that he gave little duty in the crash investigation to the NTSB, but it's the author's world, and he can make things work the way he wants them to work.
Overall, a fun read!
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