Just a comment from the Land of The Septics:
Eons ago, the FAA kept the written exams most secret and people struggled through the tests, sometimes learning the questions by taking them several times.
Lo, the mean spirited President Nixon shadowed the land and the Congress was unhappy with his secretive ways. They responded willfully with a law duly titled Freedom of Information Act, hereinafter referred to as FOIA. Citizens and exalted miscreants (aka lawyers) used to the new law to pry information from the government. Some government officials redacted the documents on grounds of "national security"-many requests were returned with articles "a", "an" and "the" the only readable words between strings of heavy black ink.
But, upon the sky, tests remained close held FAA material. Students of those skies studied, paid money to tutors and passed the tests. Until one day, a bright light used the FOIA to wrest the questions, thru a FOIA request,in the "public domain". Now students purchase books from the Goverment Printing Office with something like a thousand questions AND THE answers to the written exams required to fly. The minions at the FAA now merely have you answer questions 1,3,6, 10....798...999 and it is a test complete. It is mere rote memory now.
I dare say if that question were asked on an ATPL here, the answer would be either, "I can't program my PDA", "Call Dispatch", "how many can I miss" or "its level, so it's OK".
Land of Septics is now Land of the Anti-Pedantic.
J_T And I thought Queensland was the Land of Sunburned.
Bored in Beijing, but looking over my shoulder.
GF