PPL Study continued
I fronted up at the flight school today. Lawrence had me sit a "trial exam" prior to the Cyber exam (which costs about $150), so he just wanted to make sure I was ready. Bottom line is that I am. I always find multiple choice questions aggravating, and these were no exception. My major knowledge deficit was using the take-off and landing charts for Cessna planes (which I don't think I have ever used), including my lack of understanding of "climb weight limit" which basically is a weight restriction imposed by high pressure altitude. So I scored over 80% with a required pass mark of 70%. So Lawrence has suggested another trial paper and then I'll do the real thing. Study has been chewing up a lot of my spare time, so I'd like to get this out of the way soon.
PPL Study
I set an
arbitrary deadline of this Saturday to do the
CASA PPL Cyber Exam (on-line test). I have been pushing through 4 volumes of syllabus and a pile of regulations. My brain is swimming with new concepts like Saturated Adiabatic Lapse Rate, and my head hurts. I was worried that I seemed to keep getting some classes of question wrong, especially the one involving "how far ahead on the runway must the next plane be before you takeoff". I put the same question to my
PPL qualified buddy, and when I realised he had not memorised the
subtleties of distances depending on how
heavy the plane in front is, I felt slightly more relaxed.
I've also been working on a tender this week, so I am fitting study in between cut- pasting and writing (up to about page 100 now), travelling, dance classes, blogging and
occasional sleep.
I want to do all the practice questions one more time and then I'll guess I'll turn up Sat
arvo and take my chances.
