Thats good, this is my day off so I can make it, I may throw in a free flight for 2 of ya if the weather is nice 😉

Re: Bristol AIrport

Originally posted by andrewm
Anyone want to meet up at Bristol AIrport on 16th Feb. Afternoon ish time as myself and two friends are going over to take parts of an A310 and will be doing some spotting in the afternoon?

ANyone?

I’ll go mate, I fly a light a/c from there, I know a really good spotting spot too 😉 what day is this?

Dean.

hell no, its fuel planning and monitoring all the way for me, its nice to know I have a contingency plus extra on board at all times, and as its no-ones intention to run out of fuel, if it happens then like u say Moggy the CAA fines would be the last thing on my mind, first and foremost surviving the landing would be my main concern 🙂

Dean

Ive got a Qantas 707 VJet and Pan Am 707 coming 😀

oh the pictures I have in my head right now

Happy New Year to you guys too 😀

Best Regards

Dean

as I said in your last thread (which you have failed to respond to)
buy the PPL Confuser, it is a must, if you struggle with the exams then you have to buy this.

During my training I often wondered about having my licence, I often wondered about doing my QCC, could I, would I ever achieve it, could I do it, it seems so close, yet so far away, but when the time comes you cope with it and you do it and you achieve.
Its the same with my CPL, Im starting my ATPL’s very soon and wonder if Im academically capable, I took an Open University Mathmatics course last year and passed with 95%, this was just to dampen my fear of failure, to me, at 30 years old failure is not an option, should I have done my ATPs when I was 18? hell yes, did I realise what I wasnt doing by not realising my dreams since I was 7 years old? hell no, I met my wife when I was 18, Im now 30 with a child on the way and a hefty mortgage, I have a PPL but it isnt enough, so is the path ahead going to be easy? is there going to be more ups than downs? hell no, but I dont wanna get to 45 years old and say to myself, DAMN I WISH I tried, Id ratehr be in a position to say to people who have failed (and I wish these to be few and far between) that Ive been there, done that, and got coffee stains on the tea-shirt

D.

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.