ATPL Written-recent in Orlando

[Touchdown21]

Hello,

Was looking for anyone who has recently taken the ATPL written tests in Orlando (within the last year or so), or other CAA testing facility. Specifically,

Were the questions and answers identical to the question bank?

Did you highlight your charts...was that an issue?

Did the proctors seem organized, overall, was it professionally ran?

Any other helpful advice/tips, thanks in advance.

[9287Excellent]

Hi,

I did finished my ATPL's just under a year ago, but did them at the CAA headquaters at Gatwick.
I would strongly advise against making too many markings on your charts before the exam...one of the guys on my course was chosen to have his charts looked at, along with another person (normally 2 people chosen at random) and he had marks on his charts from some of the exams and examples we'd done in class at our flying school. The CAA didn't take too kindly to this and failed him for that exam and he had to re-take it.
With regards to the questions being similar to the question bank...myself and a lot of the people I know, have used the Bristol database and we found the questions in the real exam to be identical, if not the same as the ones in the database. I have been told, however that the CAA have added some new questions and I'm not sure if these appear in Bristol or any other databases so you might want to bare that in mind!
Good luck with your exams,

[Touchdown21]

Thanks so much for the info...anyone else?

[terryb99]

There has been changes on several knowledge tests, the ATP is one of them;

AOPA Online: Knowledge-test revisions surprise, scores suffer (http://www.aopa.org/advocacy/articles/2011/110303knowledge_test_revisions_surprise_scores_suffer.html)

[Touchdown21]

Thanks, anyone else with recent experience like to comment on the highlighting question? I'm getting mixed reports...don't see how they could get miffed if you just highlighted a VOR or the like...

Thanks in advance.

[Touchdown21]

Anyone have info on whether the CAA is using QB 15 now or not?

[zondaracer]

Terryb99, you are referring to FAA EXAMS. Everyone else is talking about JAA exams issued by UK CAA. Thanks for trying though :)

I also had hightlighting and markings on my charts (Gatwick). Just dont have formulas and questions from the questionbank written down