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by **Captain_Hamish** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 5:52 pm

hey monkeybdq

i am going for my PPL at moment and the only exam i have done is human factors and the samlpe paper for that was nothing like the real exam

by **ZK-Brock** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 6:34 pm

Good to know Hamish. Radio is my best subject by far. I haven't got the sample paper for it (they don't put it on their website unlike the others) but I think I'll pass.

by **Captain_Hamish** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 9:23 pm

oh ok i gotta try and get better at radio haven't done much with it yet where are you going for your ppl i am going for mine at the canterbury aero club

by **Mike M** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 7:26 am

I'm doing FRTO today, so maybe I could give you a heads up on what sort of things might be in the test.

by **ZK-Brock** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 9:45 am

Thanks very much Mike.

by **ZK-Brock** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 8:26 pm

I did mine a few hours ago. It wasn't too hard, should easily get the 70% required to pass. Only one or two tricky questions.

by **mailman** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 1:16 am

The only exams you need to actually study for is weather and navigation. All the others are doddles

Infact, if you had the inclination Id say instead of doing the bog standard PPL exams, do the CPL ones instead. Give you a better grounding in the fine arts and all that.

Regards

Mailman

by **kiwiflyboy** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 8:53 am

back in the good old days, you could sit the exams of a higher license and credit them towards a lower level license, e.g. sit CPL's and use them to get a PPL, but now they have changed their minds.... so you must sit everything...

by **ZK-Brock** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 9:36 am

I don't think there is a CPL FRTO exam, correct?

by **kiwiflyboy** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 11:22 am

no there isnt, but was usefull for Human factors...... instead of sitting CPL, just did ATPL, which was easy as pie...... So YAY I have 1 ATPL, now to study for the rest of them.......

(i'll get to it when the weather stops being so nice)

by **FlyingKiwi** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 7:30 pm

Just got my PPL results back today:

Meteorology = 83%
FRTO = 88%
Law = 93%
Technical Knowledge = 95%
Human Factors = 96%
Navigation = 100% B)

I'm very happy overall. Pity met wasn't too good but at least it was still well over the pass mark.

by **ZK-KAG** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 7:38 pm

Heya

As most of you know, Im not doing the ASL exams but the Massey Uni papers. We started on Monday, and I have my FRTO Exam next week thursday. Any heads up would be good, as the syllabus and theory books are all the same.

Cheers
KAG

by **Ex ANZ Eng** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 8:10 pm

Hi Guys,

when I did mine (all those years ago), I found the FRTO the easiest and Met was the hardest.

by **ZK-Brock** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 8:11 pm

Hey cool Leo, apparently Met and Nav are the hardest so you did allright (speshly with nav)

by **FlyingKiwi** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 7:00 pm

Met is one of those subjects where there is a huge amount of "stuff" to learn that can often be quite confusing; the CPL folder I have for met is about the size of half the entire PPL syllabus!

by **ZK-Brock** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 7:02 pm

Yeah, I spoke to the CFI today, it's gonna be 4 night classes, each 2 hours long. 8 hours of teaching + studying over 4 weeks. Sound feasible to you Leo?

by **kiwiflyboy** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 9:31 pm

I found met bearable if you are good at learning rules, that a happens because of b..... once you get a grasp of the general outline of most things and commit a few important things to memory, you'll be fine. CPL gets a little trickier especially Tropical met..... (which is really met on a macro scale)

by **FlyingKiwi** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 9:12 pm

monkeybdg wrote: Yeah, I spoke to the CFI today, it's gonna be 4 night classes, each 2 hours long. 8 hours of teaching + studying over 4 weeks. Sound feasible to you Leo?

If you physically have enough time in the day then it's feasible.

I think the key to aviation is to accept that there will be long periods where you have no life.

by **ZK-Brock** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 5:05 pm

Yeah the night classes will be over before I start soccer for the year (at which point I will have no life until the 4th term...)

by **mailman** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 11:53 pm

kiwiflyboy wrote: back in the good old days, you could sit the exams of a higher license and credit them towards a lower level license, e.g. sit CPL's and use them to get a PPL, but now they have changed their minds.... so you must sit everything...

Aye really?

Farken who was the genius that passed that decree? I bet ASL is laughing all the way to the bank!

f8cking wankers!

Mailman

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