I took my Meterology exam and just scraped a pass at 75%.
I now have my navagation to start and to be honest it looks just as hard as it does sound. I have just brought one of the Oxford avaiton c.d’s about Navagation, I here they are good and that most who use them find it a lot more easy than the books.
It is really getting hard and todays flying was poor, I really want to get some more solo flying in but the weather is so poor, I have been waiting for three boring duel lessons now, and it really does get to you. (especially when your instructor wants to send you off)
Do the other exams get easier and how hard is the NAV compared to say the MET?
Regards comrades
R.weaver
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By: Deano - 28th December 2003 at 13:44
Congratulations on passing the MET, as for the Nav I found the exam easier than expected, BUT, you need to know your stuff, make sure you are clued up on lattitude/longditude reading, conversions of magnetic headings to true headings and visa versa (variation west, magnetic best and all that, and remember its the oposite way round for a conversion from magnetic to true), you will need your map and wizz wheel at the exam as you will do a flightplan, and just be careful when working out the wind corection angles and airspeeds as I only got one question wrong if I recall and it was because the flightplan had a 5kts lower airspeed and I misread it so this threw my calculations out.
Fuel consumption is another, also make sure you can read and understand nearly every symbol on the map.
Basically make sure you have a sound knowledge of Nav before taking the exam, I take it you have bought the PPL Confuser book? if not, you must must must get it if you struggle on the exams, and make sure you are getting 95% right inthe Confuser book too.
As for the other exams, well some are easy some are hard, i didnt really find any of them taxing but I messed up a tad on the Aircraft General because I didnt read the questions properly, so some of the best advice I can give is TAKE YOUR TIME, read and understand the question before answering them.
good luck
Dean.
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December 27, 2003 at 8:38 pm