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Old 24th Jan 2013, 12:41
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Heston
 
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Its difficult to answer the question - there really isn't a straightforward answer because it depends so much on how you learn. Practical, hands on person? - leave until later. Good at exams and academic? - get them done early. But generally I'd advise leaving them until you've done enough flying to understand the relevance of what you are learning for the exams, because most of it is stuff you really do need to know (there are exceptions to this and a good chance this thread will drift into a discussion of how useless most of it is...).

But ask your instructor. Just because you want to study on your own they aren't going to wash their hands of that part of your training.

There's nothing wrong with doing most of the studying yourself and getting your instructor to give you an hour or two of ground school to help with bits that you are finding challenging. Sort of guided self-study. In fact its what most of my students do.
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