You think that's bad, when I did my radio navigation exam in which you always expect a question on the Omega system. They had just decommissoned it permanently. So it was obsolete.
I wondered how if it would appear as a question. It did but using the phrase 'Using a hyperbolic radionavigation system of your choice'.
I wrote something to the effect that it was no longer in operation but the OMEGA system was.........
I passed.
There is a lot of useless information to learn in the JAR exams but hidden in all the noise there are a few pearls of useful stuff.
Mention of the CAA Ex RAF Nav, reminds me of my theory that pilot exams are the last revenge of the professional navigator. Their job being obsolete, they wrote the pilot navigation exams for us. I can just see them at their chart table, squinting under the flickering light of a dim bulb, sniggering as they write the tests. 'So I'm obsolete am I? Well lets see if these glory boys know their rhumb lines from the Mercators and their PNRs from their cocked hats.'
Of course Engineers write the technical stuff and meteorologists the met. Lawyers the law. Not a pilot among them.
It's conspiracy I tell you, a conspiracy!
