Can anyone tell me just how hard the aptitude test is, as you need to pass this to get onto the course and what it includes, I realise it will include Maths and Physics, but at what level??
Because lets just say Physics is something I don't find easy!!
And also will the tests include anything else and are they multiple choice??
The aptitude test isn't *really* hard, but you will need to study for it. Do a search - the same questions have been answered before. In short, you need to be able to do mental maths (time/speed/distance qs are quite popular). I would have said the level was somewhere between GCSE & A-Level overall. The tests were not multiple choice when I took them. The hardest part was the console testing i.e. the spatial awareness tests etc on a computer.
Also does anyone know what High Wycombe town is like?? I am a bit of a party animal!! Hopefully lots of bars, come in handy on a Friday and Saturday night!! Work hard and play hard, you can't go wrong.
High Wycombe is OK - having spent a lot of time slighty less than sober in Bath & Southampton city centres as well as HW, I can safely say it's not on the same level, but there are still places to go. The Hobgoblin, Antelope & Toad all spring to mind (but bear in mind my year got there first - you might find student pilots have a rep already!) as good nights out, in addition to the SU. I would not recommend "Pure" or "Obesession" or whatever it's called these days, but the Litten Tree is good for drunken cheesy clubbing (The others are pubs).
If you want to continue the freshly established traditions (habits?) of the course, then at least one of you, a ginger if possible, should at some point either run naked through the town centre, or run over two cars at once, or both (No it wasn't me!).
I really wouldn't recommend the hill! There's a bus service from halls most mornings, and besides we found it much easier and cheaper to share a taxi (only works out at about a quid or less each).
does any one know if we take our check ride in the USA (for ppl this is!) and get a FAA licence, then on return to the UK get a transfer thing to JAA licence?
You do your check ride in the US - they have JAA examiners at OFT.
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