Sad thing, reading this thread and the effort and anguish you young guys are putting in to this, I went through much the same back in the sixties, except back then it didn't cost you for the privilege. There is bugger all of that effort and anguish that through my 47 years of committing aviation that I have ever used. Wouldn't it be wonderful if our so called regulator could come up with some sort of a test that was relevant.