CAA CPL Theory Exam Help!

[Rotorhead412]

Hi all, starting a thread to see if all CPL theory students out there/ anyone that wants to chip in a hand, can get together to throw querys at one another and methods people have for learning certain stuff, as i'm sure you all know, the material on the syllabus is quite daunting at times, and it doesn't say people can't help one another learn the stuff! So lets try and make this one work!

We'll use this thread for the 9 subjects of:
1) Human Performance & Limitations
2) Principles of Flight
3) Aircraft General Knowledge!
4) Air Law
5) Operational Procedures
6) Meteorology
7) Flight Planning & Performance
8) Navigation
9) VFR Comms

Any help at all will be greatly appreciated at all!

Some simple ones:

Compass Errors: TVMDC - True Variation Magnetic Deviation Compass
(True Versions Make Dull Company)

Acceleration Errors: ANDS - Acceleration North, Deceleration South (In Northern Hemi)

Turning Errors: UNOS - Undershoot North, Overshoot South (In Northern Hemi)

The more input the merrier, if it's not posted, people won't get a chance to learn it!

Thanking you fellow peeps! :ok:

[Whirlygig]

Compass Errors: TVMDC - True Variation Magnetic Deviation Compass
(True Versions Make Dull Company)
I learn this the other way round:

CDMVT
Captains Don't Meet Virgins Twice or
Cambridge Dons Make Virgins Tremble

but obviously we have to be PC these days so

Cadbury's Dairy Milk Very Tasty

For learning the Radio Wave Frequency Spectrum of
Very low
Low
Medium
High
Very High
Ultra High
Super High
Extra High

We have "Very Lovely Maidens Have Very Useful Sex Equipment".

As I went through all the study manuals, I noted down every formula, mnemonic, table etc in an A6 sized notebook. This I carried round with me to read and memorise.

But it's funny how the rude ones stick in ones mind!!

Cheers

Whirls

[the beater]

There is a forum on PPRuNe - Professional Pilot Training - that's probably going to be more appropriate place to look for help, as most of the syllabus is shared with the plank-driving exams, but here goes:

Environmental lapse rates and stability:Urban District Councils Shovel Something (the last word isn't 'something', but we need to uphold the decorum for which this forum is known).

True Virgins Make Dull Company can be reversed for the fairer sex to: Cadbury's Dairy Milk, Very Tasty.

[photex]

What a fantastic idea! I'm starting my CPL theory in around a month so this will be very useful! One I learnt for the PPL to help with true/magnetic/compass is the following:

T (True)
-E (take away east variation)
M (gives magnetic)
-E (take away east deviation)
C (gives compass)

Reading it up or down gives a way of converting between the various headings. Simply change to '+' for West variations and deviations.

[Rotorhead412]

Thats the stuff, nice start! Be they as vulgar as you like, the more vulgar they are, the more chance there is you'll remember it!

Winds: Up on ANNIE, Down on KATI! (Annabatic Wind is Upslope - Katabatic Downslope!)

Made these 2 ourselves 10 mins before exam:

For HPL, skin defections: Sexy Liam Curtiously Came on Barry!

From head to toe, thats Staggers (Brain Pain), Leans (Illusions in Mind), Chokes (Neck), Creeps (Pain in skin), Bends (Pain in Joints).

Cardiac Output = Stroke Volume x Heart Rate (Sarah Visciouslly Harassed Roger (SV.HR)

:}

[windowseatplease]

as most of the syllabus is shared with the plank-driving exams, but here goes:

I thought we had our own heli-specific exams now?

[Rotorhead412]

We do! Hence the exam reference CPL(H)!

Although q's can come up that are largely to do with fixed wing!

Such as last set of exams in Janaury, in AGK, q's came up in IRS (inertial reference systems - 3 to be precise), which are NOT on the syllabus! :uhoh:

[Whirlygig]

I thought we had our own heli-specific exams now?

We do but the interim system is still valid until at least April 09. However, not all subjects are heli-specific e.g. Met; the weather doesn't care if it grounds a Robinson or a Robin!!

However, the Professional Training forum does already have a few threads on this sort of thing if you search hard enough but very few learned and experienced Rotorheads venture outside this forum for fear of meeting dragons, trolls and goblins!!

Cheers

Whirls

[paco]

The interim system is only currently valid for those students who were on it prior to whatever date in Nov 2008 it officially ceased. From that date no-one else was allowed to start an interim course. One or two schools are applying for an extension to this, but it will be properly dead real soon, thank goodness. We've wasted enough time with 737s.

The questions you refer to were all credited, as were the ones on TCAS II (only one helicopter with it, and that experimental). I believe there was a total of 7. For the record, you need to know the inner workings of the IRS (i.e. know of the existence of ring laser gyros) but not the excruciating detail, so ignore the question banks. EFIS and a bit of FMS are all fair game, though.

Also, for the record, there will be no changes in regulations, new syllabuses etc until at least the end of 2009. In any case, it is unlikely that the average student will even notice.

Phil

[murdock]

My two cents - Two words - BRISTOL DATABASE. Get on it right away and keep hammering at it.

[Pandalet]

The Bristol database is good, but not infallible. There are plenty of questions in there under the H section that aren't in the syllabus, and won't come up in the exam. As always, blindly memorising answers, without understanding of what's going on is NOT a good use of your time.

[windowseatplease]

In my experience of the (interim) exams... it was 30% knowledge and 70% memorising answers. And I got over 90% average in under 6 months of full-time home studying.

[Whirlygig]

The Bristol QB is not as good as it used to be since the CAA have set some new questions in the exams which have not appeared yet on Bristol so some actual knowledge and understanding is required other than rote learning.

Cheers

Whirls

[Triple Matched TQ]

Bristol QB got my vote :ok:

Good luck

[tony 1969]

Nice little formula pamphlet pops up on ebay from time to time, very useful:ok:
Also I second what "windowseatplease" said, just keep on reading.
Best of luck

[murdock]

Yeah, for most of the subject, I reckon the same. 70% of the database questions came up on the exams. 30%, you gotta know your stuff. For Nav and Flight Planning you gotta know your stuff, like the little tricks everyone is talking about earlier. CDMVT, anything to the left subtract, anything to the right add, using the whiz wheel, scale questions, PSR, PET, etc.

To me it seems like the exams are changing rapidly. They seem to be getting easier, well at least AGK was. Well, when I say easier, they are still tough, just seemed to be a smaller amount of material to be covered than in the past.

Also noticed some strange goings ons between the Bristol Database and exams. The numbers of questions on the database has been changing - going up and then going down. Why would they be going down??? I noticed at one point some questions on the database, then a month later they were gone from the database. Then surprise, surprise they showed up on the exam!! The questions that had disappeared from the database. Curios huh? I think they are running out of questions, and they ask Bristol to remove some questions, as they are getting too good at the stuff. Thats just my opinion, and a few others I was doing the exams with.

[nehp2]

Try,
Burt and Vic Tried to Fu#* Dom!!!!

Sticks in the mind,classic

[Rotorhead412]

Murdock! I think i know you! When you sit the exams!? Wasn't january last was it?!

Neph, could you give us an insight into what it stands for? Cheers!

Has anyone got any for Met or Nav? Seem to be 2 of the subjects that are hard to beat! :ugh:

[Rotorhead412]

Alright guys! Hows things? Exams approaching ever closer now!

Hows all getting on?