which ppl confuser

[jxc]

Evening all

which ppl confuser is the best one ?

Cheers
jxc

[Shunter]

Err, the one which says "PPL Confuser" on the front. There's only 1, although it is amended occasionally so ideally get the most recent edition although in reality it's only going to be Air Law that's remotely different, and only remotely.

[Redbird72]

I was under the impression that there was only one. My copy is marked "JAA Version" and lists Nung Sornying as the author.

The book is revised and re-issued fairly regularly (mine is 8th ed.) so maybe you have seen copies from more than one printing?

[jxc]

I was under the impression there was a couple which is why I ask but hey I have been known to be wrong once B4 !

[WALSue]

There is the The PPL Confuser by Nung Sornying and AFE do a PPL Q & A Simplifier (which is what I'm using)
Think you'll probably find example questions online too

[znww5]

There is another 'Confuser' type book, by Jeremy Pratt of The PPL Course fame, although I have neither used it nor seen any reviews of it.

See this link for details: http://www.afeonline.com/shop/product_info.php?cPath=38_179&products_id=217

I used the 7th edition of The PPL Confuser by Nung Sornying, but found a number of mistakes in the book which were rather irritating - perhaps later editions had better editorial control.

Hopefully somebody who has used the Pratt revision book will be able to comment upon it.

Whichever book you choose - good luck with the studies :)

[PompeyPaul]

I found fewer mistakes in the Pratt version, but then again it had fewer test questions.

Don't forget www.airquiz.com (http://www.airquiz.com) too

Pompey Paul
On our way to WWWEEEEMMMBLEY!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Lasiorhinus]

Does this "Confuser" help to confuse you?

[imperialsam]

The Confuser (the Nung Sornying one...) is really valuable as a revision aid, though as has been said above it contains a number of mistakes.

When studying for Flight Performance & Planning I thought I had it licked until I got a question on calculating an aerodrome pressure altitude wrong. I spent about 2 hours in the textbooks, searching PPRuNe etc working out why I had got it wrong, and ended up utterly confused. Next day my instructor and I spent an another hour looking at it from a variety of possible angles, and eventually agreed that the answer in the confuser was wrong.

This was all vindicated when the exact same question (though different numbers) came up in the exam, with the same possible right and wrong options. I chose my instructor's answer over the confuser and thankfully the CAA agreed.

Confusing indeed.

[flexy]

Dont get into the habit or leaning the questions and not the theory behind them!!!!

[christimson]

Working full time and supporting a young family is quite a challenge for the student pilot. I find it impossible to plan long stretches of study time without interuption, work matters or domestic distractions.

The way I deal with it is carry the books with me everywhere I go. I usually don't get a lunch break but if I did get any spare time my current study book is not too far away. So the little and often technique works for me. I try and read a couple of pages on an evening even though I find myself re-reading them later.

The best time is late evening. I find myself remembering stuff better that way. Living with the books is pretty sad considering I'm only doing this as a hobby but accumulating snipets of info here and there regularly works better for me than long boring study marathons.

The confuser is a vital aid to gauge whether I'm ready for the exam. Mistakes and all, it's not called the confuser for nothing.:rolleyes:

[imperialsam]

I'm glad I wasn't the only one who had an issue with that question then G-EMMA! Next time I'm stuck with the confuser I'll send you a PM!

The volume of study is definitely tough to fit in among work, family commitments etc. I find that it helps to set a realistic target date for each exam and then commit to doing it on that date to your instructor/family etc. That way there is enough pressure on you to make you want to do the work, but if the date arrives and you are really not ready then you can still postpone.

I agree with G-EMMA's point of view that the exam questions are very much suited towards people who are good at 'learning the question'. I tend to have a go at the confuser questions within the day or so prior to the exam. This gets good results (not quite as good as G-EMMA's though!) but I'm concious that it doesn't help me remember things in the long term. As such I try to do plenty of study and note-taking from the books and CD-ROMs before even looking at the confuser.

[radicalrabit]

fl 50 still comes out as the answer inthat question though, because fl30 could be below 3000 ft so it isn't useable so fl 50 comes out as the first useable one,,
Still confused>

I like the bit bit "12 hours flying 6 of which must be at the controls" so the other 6 I assume can be curled up asleep on a 747 inbound from Miami:ugh:

[imperialsam]

That is the one! Makes me angry just to look at it now I think of those hours I spent agonising over it!

For the record, the vast vast majority of answers in the confuser are correct. Of what must be close to 1,000 questions you can count the dodgy answers on one hand, and most of those are very obviously wrong at first glance.

Thanks G-EMMA.

Sam

[imperialsam]

I guess the mistake was that they printed QFE instead of QNH in the question

That was also the conclusion that we came to. But not until I had been through a bit of a mental ordeal, e.g. trying to work out whether the reading on the altimeter increases or decreases when you wind the subscale up or down.

As the a/c climbs, pressure decreases and the altimeter reading increases. But if you wind the subscale numbers down to lower pressure settings, the reading on the altimeter decreases.

Obvious when you think about it, but when confronted with a purportedly 'correct' answer that contradicts what you understand, it plays havoc with the mind :ugh:

[radicalrabit]

When Does Moving The Left Rudder Pedal Ever Make The Rudder Go Right Instead Of Left ????? Tec 49 (b)

[gasman123]

The Pratt one is really very good - read each book twice, did the 3 mock exams in the Q&A simplifier & never scored less than 85%. The mock exams are in identical format to the real thing. Everything that is asked in the proper exams is covered in the Pratt books, except for the few questions that the CAA have got plain wrong!