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Old 23rd Mar 2009, 03:54
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Hoots Mon
 
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I did my Nav over a year ago now. All I can suggest is to be *very* careful and plot the position as accurately as you can. My exam question was somewhere down in the SW/Wales area as far as I can remember, not sure which. You end up looking for a landmark from the description in the question, you see the same landmark thats near where the co-ordinates are, you assume its the right one. Be careful, it could be a severe red herring. If you don't pick up on it, the question will cease to make sense later on (I think you end up being told to fly in a particular direction to another point, if you've picked the wrong landmark, then you won't be flying in that dictated direction) and you waste time going through it allll again . When you plot them precisely, you get the correct more obscure landmark, hidden in the chart clutter and the rest of the question then makes sense. "Sneaky bar stewards" is what I thought of those exam chaps at the CAA
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