Do you just sit there and blurt out all the calls (unlikely I expect!) or do you have to sit with a log and timer?
No - you just sit there and blurt out the calls. Really! Unless it's changed in the last couple of years...
One thing which I was told catches a lot of people is that you have to make the first call. Just like real life - you start up, and then you request taxi - you don't wait for the controller to speak to you. After that, the controller will reply, and eventually you get cleared to take off and turn en-route. Then you pause before doing whatever it is that you have to do next. The pause is really just to get your head around it - it doesn't have to timed or anything like that. So the whole thing runs at exactly the speed you want it to run at - which makes it very easy.
The only things you'll come across which aren't familiar are emergencies and Special VFR, and the unrealisticness of the whole thing! For the emergencies, I was given a rough-running engine - the examiner played a "buzz" sound, which he explained before we started mean that my engine was running rough. He then explained that shortly afterwards he'd play the "buzz" sound again, and the second buzz meant that my engine had miraculously cured itself. Like I said, this is not realistic! I also had to relay a Mayday. Again, the examiner told me beforehand what would happen. He played a recording of a Mayday. After hearing the Mayday, I was supposed to wait an appropriate amount of time before "realising" that ATC hadn't heard it and weren't going to reply, before relaying them the details of the emergency.
The whole thing would have been very funny if it wasn't actually an exam! Nothing to worry about....
Good luck!
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