Originally Posted by
ex82watcher
Are there any others out there in PPruneland with this qualification ?
Yes - and by the same route, probably around 1976. One of the civilian instructors at my ATC squadron (1075, Camberley) was an ATPL who offered to tutor any flying scholarship cadets for it. I think at that time the O-level gave me a waiver in some of the PPL ground subjects (nav & met IIRC) and the idea was to get these out of the way before going to Biggen to do the scholarship so that we could make better use of the (RAF-funded) classroom time.
I remember it as being pretty easy - the met stuff was mainly applying what I'd already done in physics and the nav stuff was three-dimensional geometry that I'd already done in additional maths. Three months of an hour every wednesday night and swatting the textbook for the nomenclature the night before the exam got me an A without much actual work.And as I remember it did give me more time to focus on stuff like air law and RT during the actual PPL course.
PDR