PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - How good is the confuser
View Single Post
Old 2nd Apr 2002, 09:22
  #18 (permalink)  
GroundBound
 
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Belgium
Posts: 265
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Evo7

Can't remember what section, now. It concerned use of flaps which steepen the approach. In the Confuser it talks about a flatter pitch. The answer was "flatter" in the Confuser. In the excam, the question was phrased as "angle", and the answer was "steepen".

The problem is the phrasing of the question in the Confuser. The author has a very non-English sounding name, and it may be that small translation errors cause the problem.

Some of the Confuser questions appeared to be word-for-word compatible with the exams, some were very similar, and sometimes the values (e.g. a FL) were changed.

I studied the Thoms books, and repeatedly tested myself (random selection) on the Confuser. Whenever I had a "disputed" result, I cross checked with the books, the question phraseology in the Confuser, and with any other sources who I could find.

I got through the exams, and the Confuser did help a lot, primarily to allow me to test my knowledge - the Thoms books don't do that very well.
GroundBound is offline