Originally Posted by
Glider Steve
H...I managed to fail my Air Law exam at first sitting. Partly due to me not reading the question properly, and partly uie to pretty arcane questions!
Hi Steve
Good work on the flying and trying to keep a positive attitude. Yes, the course is a bit of a marathon, not a sprint, with lots of curved balls to dodge on the way, as you will already have found the first few of many!
Regarding the air law specifically, without wishing to appear argumentative; you don't fail an exam for 1 wrong question. Yes, air law is a bit of a test, with some odd wording, and it is probably designed to test your knowledge of detail, as well as to test your patience and application. It is too long ago since I taught and examined PPL air law, however I can assure you the 14 ATPL written exams are orders of magnitude more arcane, odd, pedantic, ambiguous (and sometimes downright wrong!) than PPL air law. So the moral is - knuckle down, see where you went wrong, learn from the mistakes, learn the examiner's ways, and make sure you ace the rest.
All of flying is a test, and the potential consequence of failure don't come much higher than in flying, so it needs you to pay attention to the detail and to get it right. See this as a positive learning experience to set you up for greater things. After all, if it was easy, licences would be handed out with the junk mail, for no effort, and everybody would be doing it!
Stick at it - you'll get there. Take the lows as well as the highs in your stride to ease the path for yourself.