Attached is the feedback on the November exam I wrote down same evening:-
Flight Planning - Generally appeared harder and more focused on the CAP than the Jepp. Some Qs at 4 marks. One page of 3 Qs carried 10% of the total for the paper!! Any marks for showing your workings?
E Lo 1 - distance and course/ appropriate flight level TALLA ANGUS
E Lo 5 - CHEB - RODING - recall it was a 'appropriate level' question given the E> on the route
ED6 - Distance Freudenstadt - Villingen
ED6 - Immenstadt Fetling - min alt to remain 1000ft clear of highest obst in 5km either side of line corridor
E Hi 2 - ODIN SHILLING appropriate flight level/ bearing
E Hi 2 - ALMA PETER flight level and bearing
E Hi 2 - BACKA BOTTNA distance & flight level
E Hi 2 - Nav facility at LANDVETTER is a ?
Polar High - VIGRA Keflavik bearing
Polar High - if grid track Xdegrees at start what is it at the end of the track? (X being a value I cannot recall)
8 questions on flight plans, usual suspects, answerable from Jepp manual
An Amsterdam SID distance (Arnhem or Andik)
VFR Pages ATSU freq for Aberdeen (10-1V but this is the last place you look)
VFR Pages - start clearance freq at Athinai (Hellinkion) - 121.7MHz
3 PSR/ PEF questions of different degrees of difficulty
2 basic fuel planning calculations
CAP697 - 2.5 endurance graph question
CAP697 - 2 Qs on 4.2.1/2 optimum altitude
CAP697 - 4 or 5 questions focused around the air distance formula as part of all of the question
CAP697 - 3 question on 4.5.1 of varying types
CAP697 4.5.3.1 2 questions
I guess each exam will vary a little depending on the which questions the CAA 'randomly' pick.
Some of the questions (the ones from the Jepp manual on flight plans for instance, you can answer at face value in 10 seconds, although a wise man checks with the pages in the Jepp to be sure).
Same with the VFR section questions. Some of the table and calculation questions have the potential to take up some time if you do not know how to do the calculation or use the table. If you do then they are actually quite simple. QED learn the subject as well as doing the feedback Qs
Pete Swatton at GTS concludes the flight planning section of the GTS course with the advice that this paper is won or lost in the planning. Take a few minutes to go through the paper first; pick out the charts you need; see where the marks are; plan the time you need for each section then start with the easy ones (using the Jepp to XREF what you know); do all the Qs on one chart first; then move on to the next; leave time for the table and multi mark calculation questions. In the November exam, one could pass or fail on one page of three multi mark questions ...
