PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - Commercial airline pilot - A Levels
View Single Post
Old 28th Sep 2013, 06:09
  #10 (permalink)  
Artie Fufkin
 
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Polymer Records
Posts: 597
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Agreed.

During ATPL exams I remember a little GCSE level trigonometry in General Nav and some very basic algebra during Theory Of Flight, other than that, it was junior school level mental arithmetic.

Flying on line; some addition/ subtraction required to fill in the tech log and check a manually produced load sheet (I use my iPhone calculator for this) and in the the air I have only ever needed my three times table for descent planning and the ability to either multiply by five or if that gets too tricky, divide by two for non precision approaches.

A Level maths will look good for cadet scheme applications.
Artie Fufkin is offline