Okihara
14th Jun 2018, 08:13
Here's a question on apples and pears.
RPL is a done deal, I am now working towards my PPL for which, I understand, one needs to sit yet another CASA exam. I'd have another question regarding the legitimacy of that organisation too but I'm afraid that would push me beyond the final frontier of both pragmatism and sanity much required on Thursday evenings. It seems that Bob Tait has a two volume monograph on RPL/PPL. There's also the seven manual kit by Aviation Theory which covers the PPL and CPL syllabi.
That leaves me a bit ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
How could the Bob Tait textbook cover the PPL syllabus when it takes his competitor seven manuals? Aviation Theory alleges that PPL theory is 75% that of CPL. Still, that'd naively leave us an equivalent 5.25 books of contents vs. two volumes (or one if you assume RPL and PPL are one book each)?
For now I only remotely, albeit modestly, entertain the prospect of venturing into CPL territory (no offence, just happy like that for now plus the heavy duty to teach my twin boys some serious playstation skills leaves hardly any time to spare actually), hence the question to instructors of all grades out there: which textbook should I get a copy of? Will Bob Tait be enough (if so, only just Vol 2?) to sit the PPL exam?
Surely you'd be tempted to tell me to ask my own instructor first. And I did. His diplomatically very neutral answer that I will not reproduce here was not very helpful however.
RPL is a done deal, I am now working towards my PPL for which, I understand, one needs to sit yet another CASA exam. I'd have another question regarding the legitimacy of that organisation too but I'm afraid that would push me beyond the final frontier of both pragmatism and sanity much required on Thursday evenings. It seems that Bob Tait has a two volume monograph on RPL/PPL. There's also the seven manual kit by Aviation Theory which covers the PPL and CPL syllabi.
That leaves me a bit ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
How could the Bob Tait textbook cover the PPL syllabus when it takes his competitor seven manuals? Aviation Theory alleges that PPL theory is 75% that of CPL. Still, that'd naively leave us an equivalent 5.25 books of contents vs. two volumes (or one if you assume RPL and PPL are one book each)?
For now I only remotely, albeit modestly, entertain the prospect of venturing into CPL territory (no offence, just happy like that for now plus the heavy duty to teach my twin boys some serious playstation skills leaves hardly any time to spare actually), hence the question to instructors of all grades out there: which textbook should I get a copy of? Will Bob Tait be enough (if so, only just Vol 2?) to sit the PPL exam?
Surely you'd be tempted to tell me to ask my own instructor first. And I did. His diplomatically very neutral answer that I will not reproduce here was not very helpful however.