CPL time managment - A must read
Just a good word of advise, make sure that you have a very good school behind you! This is very important as you will have many questions and require many explanations of the course work. Also the difference between passing or not will be determined by the consolidation course just before the exams. You will need ground instructors that will help make the subject alive and clear in your mind!
Plan to spend some time every day to try keep the ball on the roll…so that you don’t loose track!
I have just completed the CPL exams in Jan 09 and passed them all with flying colours bar the Nav exam. I found this exam hard, but it didn’t help that I forgot my ID and arrived at the exam centre 15min late. Got 73% though and flew through on the second attempt.
I used GTS in Bournemouth as there instructors are very good. I must mention that I actually went and visited them before signing up. I wanted to put my mind at rest that they were as good as had been suggested to me. I would strongly suggest that you look into a good school and not just the finance side…cheep and cheerful – you will pay in the long run by re-sitting exams!!!!!. Also GTS provided me with a study plan and helped me flex the plan as and when my job was very busy. It is important to have a school that understands that you may be the only bread winner in the household and that work is more important than you current dreams of flying and that you are not some full time student. I was working up in London and having to drive 4 hours a day for 3 out of 5 days a week…so this was very important.
I had to miss out on some exam sitting and sit some exams out of faze, but I could only do this because my school allowed me. Realistically you will need to use some sort of practice exams and I would suggest using this in the last week to refresh and practice, but not to learn. These exams are not hard, only if you have not learnt the correct stuff, so get a school that knows the exams! GTS has a few instructors that know the exams really well and made sure that we were fully prepared. So there were no surprises when we got there!
Have faith as it is possible and when you have passed them all, you will feel a great sense of achievement! Now for the next step!