Groundschool data request

Dean:

Thanks for the offer of help, and yes it will be a large undertaking and I totally understand that your IR comes first. I may pick your brain when have time though 🙂

You could clean up if you did something for PPL exams online a la Bristol but it is not something that will pay off straightaway. Bristol are charging £50 for 90 days. You may also find people will buy the cheaper book format PPL Confuser instead, however with an accurate database, they may think otherwise.

BlueRobin:

I may put the syllabus up first then maybe do 100 questions for each subject that will for a small bank then the user can select a subject and will get 30 or so questions at random from the bank, obviously I can build the bank up as time goes on. I am not looking at this being a commercial product I am just looking to give PPL Students a place where they can go to get help, infomation, and some ground school data. This should be a free service (at least initially it depends if I have to buy data) hopefully and anyone buying their books through Amazon from the site will help towards the running costs.

I have all the Trevor Thom books still (but obviously cannot copy them) so I have some detailed information for the ground school pages. It will be a lot to put into the site but perhaps I should start (after doing the syllabus and question bank) by covering areas that are generally weak areas for users. Feedback would be essential here so that I know what areas to cover etc. Experienced Pilots, FIs etc could also pitch in with some information and to check that any data on the site is accurate etc.

Phew This is gonna take a while LOL

Thanks for listening guys

Regards

Carl

You will probably glean most information regarding the syllabus and testing requirements, both theory and flying from JAR-FCL1 at www.jaa.nl. For an official document it is not that arduous to go through.

There is a AOPA book which also describes the PPL flying syllabus. This might be useful as a secondary reference and is usually available from pilot stores.

On the issue of a question bank. The CAA has its own set of questions not drawn for a central question bank.

Bristol groundschool do something similar on http://atponline.gs but for ATPL and http://www.aviationexam.com/. Both were able to cobble together most of the core questions because they obtained the JAA central question bank and so had a head start.

You would not have this head start and would find yourself having to ask a to of students to feedback questions they saw in their exam before you could even begin to offer a viable product.

From there you will want to maintain currrency and be able to track withdrawn and introduced exams questions. As Dean said, an undertaking 😮

You could clean up if you did something for PPL exams online a la Bristol but it is not something that will pay off straightaway. Bristol are charging £50 for 90 days. You may also find people will buy the cheaper book format PPL Confuser instead, however with an accurate database, they may think otherwise.

Carl this sounds like a massive undertaking
I’d love to help out but I’m starting my Instrument Rating in a few weeks so time isn’t on my side, however, if there is anything you think I can do to help just shout up, have you a comprehensive list of everything, large or small that you want to include?

What do they want specifically? :confused:

Would a ground school syllabus do? Or do you want a whole ground school, or question bank online?

Hi

Ideally I would like to be able to have all three built up over time so there is a comprehensive resource for PPL Students to be able to consolidate knowledge gained from the books available that are recommended by their flight school. I am still trying to investigate the best way to go about this and advice or help from anyone who can spare the time and knowledge would be greatly appreciated. The site is mainly aimed at PPL students but has links to other resources for qualified pilots such as CAA documents, metar and notam information etc.

So at the moment I am in the investigation stage as to feasibilty of each of the items you mentioned.

Also I would like to be able to put up the full PPL(A) and PPL(H) practical syllabus exercise by exercise etc. I think you may have soem idea of where I am trying to take the site as a free resource for PPL Students.

Thanks for taking the time to reply

Many Regards

Carl 🙂

What do they want specifically? :confused:

Would a ground school syllabus do? Or do you want a whole ground school, or question bank online?