G'day
wbryce:
wishing to know how other IMC pilots prepared themselfs for the theory exam
Basically, I prepared by:[list=a][*]Reading Thom, and religiously doing the quiz at the end of each chapter (don't worry if not 100% clear at this stage, but this is the foundation work required);[*]Buying the
IMC Confuser[*]Using the
www.airquiz.com tests[*]Then, when scoring consistently above 90% on Airquiz and/or Confuser, I sat the test.[/list=a]You will pass. At the end of the day, I didn't find this as hard as I remembered some of the PPL tests (like Air Law for example) and there was more than enough time to get through the paper.
On the subject of whether to do it before the flight training or during it, I would say that I found some of the stuff for the exam a bit confusing before I had done the flight training, and that a lot of things made more sense because I had the context once I was about half way through the training, which is when I sat the paper.
Hope this helps,
Andy