Agree - book 6 does go into more detail than is really needed. But I don't know of a better text book to use for the PPL exam - what did you use? My instructor actually recommended that I learn for this exam from the Confuser because Thom was so much more detailed than required, but I wasn't happy about doing that.
Didn't know that book 7 had been updated, though - thanks for that!
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