Maki Horikita: Miss Pilot drama episode 11 recap and screenshots

Main Cast:

Maki Horikita as Haru Tezuka, pilot in training

Saki Aibu as Chisato Oda, pilot in training, the one flunkee

Takumi Saito as Konosuke Kinukida, training instructor

Koichi Iwaki as Kazutoyo Shinozaki, pilot

Shotaro Mamiya as Taiji Kishii, pilot in training

Yu Konayagi as Sho Kotari, pilot in training

Nanami Sakuraba as Suzu Abeno, Taiji's girlfriend

 Going to try to keep this short, was a bit of a disappointing finale, was hoping for a longer show with more suspense but sadly that wasn't the case. The five remaining trainees have passed all their test and to start off this episode were in the midst of doing OJT on a real 787. We didn't see much of them in a plane but all passed once again and now have been certified to become a co-pilot. Time now as you'll see in some screenshots is close to Christmas, the training has been going on for over 3 years now.

 Only real event that happened in this episode was with Haru who was scheduled to be on her first flight as a co-pilot on X-Mas eve. The flight was to Sapporo where they were having a major snowstorm, the flight was successful up until they were going to land the plane but the visibility was just too poor so they headed back to Tokyo. Previews made it out as it was going to be a 'on the edge of your seat' episode with that, it was nothing close to suspenseful at all. That scene could have been so much better, guess they did the right thing by returning to Tokyo but it did make for a rather boring scene, why even bother setting something like that and not going through with something more interesting. And that really was all that happened in this last episode, really the most boring show of all the 11 that aired, really fluffy with hardly anything interesting that occurred, truly was a letdown as the this was a solid drama up until to this point, they almost could have stopped after episode 10 seeing this was the best they could offer.

 All in all it was an enjoyable series, probably 8 out of the 11 episodes were quite good, few like this last one weren't but still would recommend watching it. Maki did a solid job in the drama, have heard a few others cut her performance down though but I thought she was fine. Also fine was Saki, would have been better to see if the relationship between her character Chisato and their instructor would have worked out. Finally kept a recap short, when not much happens in an episode it's easy to do that, will give this a final rating of about an 8/10, rounded up a bit to get to that, would have been higher if not for this final show. And hopefully we won't have to wait as long for Maki to be in another drama, this was her first one in 2 1/2 years, most of her series to date wouldn't be considered classics but I really enjoy watching the dramas she's in, hoping the next one will be sooner than later.

Maki Horikita: Miss Pilot drama episode 10 recap

Main Cast:

Maki Horikita as Haru Tezuka, pilot in training

Saki Aibu as Chisato Oda, pilot in training, the one flunkee

Takumi Saito as Konosuke Kinukida, training instructor

Koichi Iwaki as Kazutoyo Shinozaki, pilot

Shotaro Mamiya as Taiji Kishii, pilot in training

Yu Konayagi as Sho Kotari, pilot in training

Nanami Sakuraba as Suzu Abeno, Taiji's girlfriend

 After two so-so episodes this series made a bit of a comeback with this show, this drama has worked real well when the pilot trainees have been in training or being tested, the human side of this series is less interesting.
 If you've followed these posts you now that five of the 6 trainees have passed all the tests they had at the training program in America, Chisato who was supposed to be the elite of them all naturally was the one who failed. The training in Japan has mainly consisted of them in a airplane simulator, they started that training in mid September, after only a few weeks they're already being given a final test flying the simulator, seems as though they didn't have enough time training, to me that is as a few weeks of that training doesn't seem to be nearly enough.

 Haru has always been the slowest one to learn, when she finally does get a grasp of something she's usually knows it just as well as the others but just takes her so much longer to learn things. Now she's even more behind the other trainees as her mother has been in and out of the hospital with cancer which has set her back and has actually upset some of the top brass at the airline. Out of the 5 trainees, all but Haru are scheduled to take their final simulator exam, you have one chance and if you flunk it then that's it, you have no more opportunities to become a pilot. Well the other 4 trainees passed, don't know how their exams went but they all passed and that's all that really matters. Haru has been given an extension of one week before her final test because of the time she's missed, was at this point when more than ever all the other trainees helped her out, think they've finally realized she's the glue which has held the group together, all may not have passed if not for her. Through very long odds then, especially as she was also having a difficult time with her instructor, Haru naturally passed and though we didn't see her taking the final test think she passed it with flying colors.

 So all their testing is now complete and it's time to start training on a real 787, that's where the episode ends as Haru is about to start her first flight as a pilot, just training for now though as they're not ready to fly passengers yet.The time in the drama is at the beginning of October and with only one episode left looks like they'll be rushing through this training, you would think this would be the longest and intense of all the trainings but doesn't appear as though it will.
 Hope the last episode is a long one, surprisingly it's airing on X-Mas eve and is probably up against a lot of specials. Ratings for this have been up and down, the highest was about 15.5% and the lowest was about 10.4%, think the average is somewhere in the 12's. Will be back about the same time next week with a look at the last episode and of course in the following post is a mega amount of Maki screenshots from this episode.

Maki Horikita: Miss Pilot drama episode 10 screenshots

 Previews for the last episode look really terrific, they didn't give too many details but just enough to make us all want to view it. Haru is on her first flight with passengers when a catastrophe happens on the flight, don't know what it is but that does seem like something that would happen to Haru. Sure she comes out of it fine though but have a feeling it's still going to be a really fine watch. Bottom pics are when she passed the final exam and is about to board the plane for her first training flight on a 787.