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Postby ardypilot » Fri Jun 24, 2011 4:15 pm

CPL Flight Test coming up shortly- any tips for those who have already sat it? Or questions you were asked by the examiner?

Anyone had Brendon Bourne before? Cheers.
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Postby Ian Warren » Fri Jun 24, 2011 4:33 pm

Andy .. going to be a smart ass here .. I no off 'Jason Bourne' ninja.gif ..............Yeah Yeah , that don,t help smile.gif
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Postby dbcunnz » Fri Jun 24, 2011 4:42 pm

Ian Warren wrote:
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Andy .. going to be a smart ass here .. I no off 'Jason Bourne' ninja.gif ..............Yeah Yeah , that don,t help smile.gif

I thought you were going to say you knew Wood Bourne or NZWB tongue.gif laugh.gif
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Postby chopper_nut » Fri Jun 24, 2011 4:50 pm

The only advise I can give mate is be prepared to be yelled at. If your being put up for the test then you are capable of passing it so just fly like you do every day and youll be fine. Different testing officers have different areas they concerntrate on. The guy who did my CPL and C-Cat just asked law questions, whereas the guy who did my renewal just asks weather questions, although the fixed wing examiners are probably different. The guy who did my CPL asked questions to see if I would take on jobs that I wasnt ready for like sling etc. Dont know if this helps at all.
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Postby victor_alpha_charlie » Mon Jun 27, 2011 9:28 pm

Not really a question or anything but was out on an area solo today and shot a quick vid- might as well share http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=...38&comments
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Postby huff3r » Wed Jun 29, 2011 7:50 am

91% on PPL Air Law and 96% on Human Factors, I'm pretty pleased with that biggrin.gif. The less KDRs I have to do the better tongue.gif.
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Postby huff3r » Sun Jul 03, 2011 11:59 am

So Aircraft technical knowledge on monday... Im not feeling too confident, its a lot of content that theyll be picking only 20 questions out of! I'll have to study hard the rest of today and get up early tomorrow haha.
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Postby H500Fan » Sun Jul 03, 2011 12:41 pm

you'll be sweet mate, from your last results you're obviously no slug. Couple of days cramming and you'll fly through.
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Postby huff3r » Wed Jul 06, 2011 7:28 am

H500Fan wrote:
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you'll be sweet mate, from your last results you're obviously no slug. Couple of days cramming and you'll fly through.


Cheers for the vote of confidence..
Well Met results are in, a 93% in that so that bodes well for ATK cos I wasnt too confident with Met either..
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Postby ZKBJC » Fri Jul 15, 2011 8:24 pm

huff3r wrote:
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Cheers for the vote of confidence..
Well Met results are in, a 93% in that so that bodes well for ATK cos I wasnt too confident with Met either..


Air tech/PofF PPL exam honestly was almost laugh-able, very very basic. You'll be sweet
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Postby huff3r » Sat Jul 16, 2011 7:55 pm

ZKBJC wrote:
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Air tech/PofF PPL exam honestly was almost laugh-able, very very basic. You'll be sweet


Cheers, turns out everyone was right. Managed to scrape through.... with 95% biggrin.gif.
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Postby H500Fan » Sun Jul 17, 2011 9:37 am

welldone mate, bloody good effort! when do you start your CPL exams? thats when the fun begins biggrin.gif
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Postby huff3r » Sun Jul 17, 2011 10:37 am

H500Fan wrote:
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welldone mate, bloody good effort! when do you start your CPL exams? thats when the fun begins biggrin.gif


I believe I'm doing them in September... not too sure. First flight was yesterday, had an awesome time up in the air biggrin.gif.
Now just hoping for a high 90s Nav pass to keep the trend going biggrin.gif.
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Postby Syncop8r » Sun Jul 17, 2011 2:56 pm

Just be prepared for that to drop to 70s for IR subjects when they give you all 3 exams in two days angry.gif
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Postby benwynn » Thu Jul 28, 2011 5:04 pm

PPL flight test tomorrow- Any last minute tips?
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Postby gojozoom » Thu Jul 28, 2011 5:49 pm

Never let go of the stick/yoke winkyy.gif
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Postby Syncop8r » Thu Jul 28, 2011 6:01 pm

Make sure you know things like "Rough Air Speed" or at least where to find stuff like that in the Flight Manual (not really a biggie).
The only fails I know of are from busting airspace, which some examiners will try to set you up for.
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Postby benwynn » Thu Jul 28, 2011 6:31 pm

Pretty confident on all my speeds/ aircraft knowledge, but yeah, little worried about letting my mind slip when being asked to do a compass turn and busting airspace unsure.gif
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Postby Olderndirt » Sat Aug 06, 2011 3:18 pm

benwynn wrote:
QUOTE (benwynn @ Jul 27 2011,11:31 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Pretty confident on all my speeds/ aircraft knowledge, but yeah, little worried about letting my mind slip when being asked to do a compass turn and busting airspace unsure.gif
So, how'd you do?
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Postby huff3r » Sat Aug 06, 2011 4:40 pm

Just did my first solo flight in a C-172 (JSP)... Had to do a go around cos my approach wasnt stable.. then another one cos of aircraft on the runway, followed by a right turn into a right hand circuit, one left hand orbit... then a left turn into a left hand circuit for the runway running the other way cos tower decided they wanted to use that instead... But still had the same number of landings as take-offs, so thats a success!!

Stoked as, that makes me the first of NZ18 at CTC to go solo biggrin.gif.
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