AeroCourse Groundschool manual
 

Hi folks,

I'm starting to prep for the ATPL's. I've got the standard Aerocourse workbook (the one with all the practice exams and answer keys), but since I'm not going to take the AeroCourse seminars, I don't have access to their actual groundschool manual.

Does anyone have the manual that they would like to sell? Preferably in digital format, as I'm overseas at the moment.

Much appreciated.

I don't, but if you have access to From The Ground Up, The Air Command Weather Manual, and can easily access the CARs, you'll do fine. I did my A's with their workbook and without doing their seminars and with those materials, scoring high 90s on both exams. Other books such as Fly The Wing, Aerodynamics for Naval Aviators, Mechanics of Flight, Handling the Big Jets, and the TC Advanced Human Factors book also help.

I'd caution you with which year book you have. AeroCourse was very up-to-date when I did my exams, so much so that the questions from the book seems to be right from the exam. But my book was the same year as I wrote the exams, TC changes the exams every so often, so best to double check the law answers especially if your book is a bit out of date.

Good luck

Hi,

I'm starting to prep for my ATPLs and already have the Aerocourse workbook with practice exams, but I don't have access to the groundschool manual since I won't be attending the seminars. If anyone has the manual in digital format and is willing to sell, please let me know—I'm overseas at the moment.

Thanks!

hey, if you’re still looking I have the manual and some work books. Do you have any exam notes on hand by chance ?

The wisepilot question bank is very similar to the actual SAMRA/SARON questions. If you do the whole question bank you will do fine.

I will caution you all that while you use the question bank, make sure that you understand the underlying material as well. Yes, sometimes TC exams are more an examination of your ability to read English or French, but I have come across a few pilots during my time who were extremely successful on their ATPL exams (+95%) who then demonstrated next to no knowledge about the material during type rating training a little while later.

I'll give you an example. There was a question on one of the exams years ago that asked about how an aircraft cabin was pressurized. I can't remember the exact wording, but it was something rather basic in retrospect, along the lines of "In what position must the bleed air valve and outflow valve be for the aircraft cabin to pressurize?" The answer is, rather obviously, bleed air open and outflow valve closed.

Skip ahead and a few students I've encountered could not answer a follow up question during type rating training. I might ask "what cockpit indications would you expect to see during a rapid decompression before the CABIN WARNING annunciator illuminates?" The answer is a three-parter: an increase in the cabin rate of climb, an increase in the cabin altitude, and a decrease in the cabin differential. For those pilots who understood the underlying material, this answer made complete sense. For those who had only studied the answer in the question bank, it made no sense. They knew the how the valves had to be positioned, but they didn't understand how the system on any pressurized aircraft worked.

So, when you're reviewing those questions and answers in the question bank, take a moment to ask yourself how you might use the information in the real world. If possible, take a poster of something complex - a King Air, a Dash-8. an ATR, a 737 - and see if you can't figure out how you would use that system or that knowledge in the real world. Sometimes doing that makes the information stick in your head better than knowing what sentence to click during the exam.