Trivia: An air traffic control simulator for the Atari 2600, Final Approach is one of only eleven games released by the short lived, Texas-based development studio Apollo before they fell victim to the industry crash of the early 1980s.
I stumbled across Skyler's first movie, and it has such a packed cast of character actors (And Skyler!), and the premise is SO ridiculous (Kid who daydreams and is awesome on flight simulator games, must land a plane when things go horribly wrong), that I HAD to see it.
It doesn't seem to be anywhere online, but the DVD was like...five bucks, so I couldn't say no.
There are not enough airplane thrillers in the world (I first got hooked with Crashers by Dana Hayes). And, honestly, that lack of thrillers makes no sense. The airlines make so many pilots retire pretty early compared to the rest of the workforce, and, I mean, there are only so many hours that can be used to teach the younger generations how to fly properly right? Write books former pilots, write books that terrify me so much that I never want to fly again. Just kidding, all you pilots can do whatever you want with your retirement I guess.
I had recognized the name John Nance from the fact that I had seen him do explanation segments on various news shows when horrible things go wrong in the sky (or, on occasion go sorta right, like Sully and the Hudson), and, so, I thought I'd give the book a try.
It’s Kansas City, and, a storm is raging. But, there is a plane still trying to land. It goes horribly, horribly wrong, causing reverberations to all parts of the country. It focuses on Joe, the head NTSB investigator. And, of course, as the novel goes on, the mystery of why all this happened doesn’t get more simple, but much more complicated. Joe may have to put his career on the line, and maybe his life to figure out the whys.
It is not for the faint of heart, and, while I wouldn’t say that it was a dated novel, most of the novel was applicable no matter when it was written, ah, some of it did crack me up because it was written in 1990. CRT in the cockpit, woo? In all seriousness though, I thought it was a really great book in a sub genre that doesn’t have a lot of them, and I really enjoyed it.
You may like this book If you Liked: Storm Front by Richard Castle, Power Down by Ben Coes, or Crashers by Dana Haynes
can't believe garak went from 'hope you have fun following my little breadcrumb trail of maybe-truths doctor it builds character ;)' at the beginning of the show to '*sigh* fuck it here's the whole loaf. the entire fucked up bakery of my soul. if you somehow still wanna have sex with me after this you know where I am, yours in infinite longing etc.' in a stitch in time. has anyone ever been so pathetically horrifically enduringly down bad as garak is for julian (laudatory)