View Full Version : Did you fail instruments ATPL ?
Having read several threads on the ATPL results it appears the exam causing the biggest snags is instruments.
Thanks to the CAA it's too late for the Sept resit but I, and I'm sure several other ppruners, will be wanting to sit it in Oct.So if we can all stick our heads together and post as many of the 'tricky' questions from the last exam it may help. I was thinking particularly of tachos and also remember one about ECAM as well.
Anybody out there remember the details ??
Nishko
27th Aug 2001, 15:34
.....Check your mail....
N
Yup you guessed it speedbird. Tacho questions were the final nail in the coffin !
Billy M
27th Aug 2001, 20:17
EGDR,
Yup, I failed instruments last sitting, so I'll see you in October!!
I think I got scuppered by those tacho questions too. I hadn't done anything on them before so I had no idea what the answers were. I will definitely be reading up on them now though.
If you get your hands on any good feedback questions for instruments would you mind emailling them to me? Thanks a lot. I'll send you any I get as well.
Good luck for the re-sit.
Cheers,
Billy M.
cubby
28th Aug 2001, 18:34
Well Guys
Sorry to here about your failure.
I failed my first instruments exam in June because of the Tacho questions.There were about 12. I have now passed the instruments exam , august sitting. I found very little feed back on the tacho instruments so I read and re-read the darn subject and it's paied off.
Now I could do with some feed back on the latest Principles of Flight questions as they are nothing like anything I have seen before .
Good Luck
Cubby......
GonvilleBromhead
28th Aug 2001, 19:14
Anyone remember any of the questions ?
cheers.
GB
PS. Cubby, was it you who posted a little while ago about not doing too good in the exams and some idiot had a pop at you ? Good for you mate for passing 'em.
Token Bird
28th Aug 2001, 19:29
Tachos... aren't they some sort of Mexican dish? ;)
Can anybody remember the last instruments question ?
I seem to recall it asked something about what ECAM would do/display if a circuit failed, or something like that ????
mad_jock
28th Aug 2001, 20:18
What are your problems with tachos?
(fellow wannabie ex engineer wanting to help)
There are 2 types
3 phase with squirrel cage and drag cup.
And inductance tachos which generate a voltage from a probe near a spinning disk.
The inductance tacho are the ones used mostly these days because they develope a voltage and not a current.
Because of this they don't suffer from signal drop over distance and they also make it easy to put into a a/d converter.
When i sat Inst there were 4-5 questions on this subject so it seems to be fairly common.
MJ