As I was revising GNAV last night I came across FMC's, magnetism, DR compasses, point of safe return etc. Now I thought I had already passed all that stuff in radio nav, operations, instruments and flight planning. Oh well it must be important then if the are making me learn it 2 or 3 times over!
It really has become a bit of a shambles this whole thing. We should start a list of the farcical things in the JAA exams. Heres a couple from me:
- 2 comms exams which take minutes each to sit
- bigger exams such as flight planning where an extra half an hour would be nice for some
- graphs that are almost illegible although I think the CAA might have finally cottoned onto this
- Loran C - is it still actually used? Actually don't get me started on the useless/outdated snippets of information bits and we could use up pages to note these!
Shame they stuffed it up as they had a chance to make the course really useful. More relevance would have been great and having a set of exams that set you up nicely for the CPL and IR plus gave you skills that would be required when flying the line such as more emphasis on weight and balance, performance charts and jepps.