** Winner of the 2001 Ippy Award ** ** Bronze medal for the 2001 Book of the Year Award **
** 2001 Benjamin Franklin Award finalist ** "The air traffic control world is off-limits to most of you and, consequently, often misunderstood. This book accomplishes what many media accounts, newspaper articles, magazine treatments, and movies have tried and failed to do: get into the minds of the men and women who are responsible for more lives in an hour than most surgeons are in a lifetime. 'TRACON' is a fictionalized account so accurate and chilling in its realism that it strikes people in the aviation business as a narrative summary of actual events." -- JOHN S. CARR, PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS ASSOCIATION
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
Charles D. Richardson, author, pilot, retired Air Traffic Cintroller:
A nail-biter that will keep you awake at night, turning pages, especially if you have a flight the next day. Charles D. Richardson, author of the military thriller, The Pact, and coming soon, Flying Machines.
If you have trouble sleeping.....:
Then this book is for you. After 10 minutes you'll be snoring. I am not finished with this book yet, but I already regret wasting time to read it. What a plot! Our hero spends more time trying to juggle two women, one 'nice girl', and one who only wants him for his body, than he does juggling planes. The 'nice' girl's sister also happens to be on the plane that midairs while he is working atc. What could be more tragic? Only the writing! "She laid her head on his shoulder, and the warmth that flowed between... more info
Phil Heier:
I don't read fiction books that much and when I do it really has to grab my attetion. TRACON did just that! I was a gripper from the beginning. It not only gives an insight to the actual career of an Air Traffic Controller but incorperates a plot for the personal side of their lives as well. A must read!
The Truth is in the Details:
The book is excellent and in many ways is more fact than fiction. Even though this is a great read for aviation folks it can give the average reader a real insight into what goes on behind the scenes when they are sitting on the cushions. The sheep to slaughter type person might not care for this book but as most of us that are in the aviation business know it is what you don't know that might cost you your life. Great Book!
