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Can any of you scholarly pilots tell me the magnetic track and distance from CPT VOR to Wycombe Air Park?
.........there is nothing to stop you using a second monitor to view the candidate's work. If you make any notes during the exam they must then be destroyed after you've debriefed the candidate.
The CAA cannot do anything about this although they insist on trying. Most commercial pilot ground schools make a practice of it, thus 'feedback question banks'. The 'PPL Confuser', published many years ago was, in my view, a lift from the actual exam papers; the CAA were powerless to stop it.
The CAA view now is that if the questions are collated and distributed, there will be a ban on LAPL/PPL exams being taken at ATO / DTO and candidates will have to attend at exam centres.
The CAA view now is that if the questions are collated and distributed, there will be a ban on LAPL/PPL exams being taken at ATO / DTO and candidates will have to attend at exam centres.
The author of the Confuser actually sent a copy of the questions he had written to the Head of Standards at the CAA asking if he could publish it.
The CAA can take action re Copyright.
My understanding from the author of the Confuser at the time was that the CAA didn't grant licence to him
Whopity you said;
The author of the Confuser actually sent a copy of the questions he had written to the Head of Standards at the CAA asking if he could publish it. The answer was Yes!
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That is just the answer to a question, it was not a licence or approval, simply that he couldn't see any reason why not because he didn't know what he was looking at. A bit like can I park my car here?
That is just the answer to a question, it was not a licence or approval, simply that he couldn't see any reason why not because he didn't know what he was looking at. A bit like can I park my car here?
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Basic navigation is simple, been taught for what 100 years. I read some of these convoluted questions that are unnecessarily complicated at PPL level.
I have students that plan a xc no problem, but come exam time fail the exam. Unless you look over their shoulder you have no idea why they failed.
The decode system is useless and vague.
These students are hobby pilots, not astronauts.
I have students that plan a xc no problem, but come exam time fail the exam. Unless you look over their shoulder you have no idea why they failed.
The decode system is useless and vague.
These students are hobby pilots, not astronauts.
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Flight planning and performance should be 2 separate exams. Ask say 10 questions on planning a flight and 10 on w & B, aircraft performance.
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It should be one exam of 120 questions covering all 9 subjects and due to blatant plagiarism by the industry it should be sat at test centres.
As for the content well the output of that is dictated by the person who is writing the exams. I always thought the IMC papers were very good. Any chance of getting that person back?
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I always thought the IMC papers were very good.
The IMC exams are based on flying using navigation using NDB and VOR and feature resolving a PLOG based on this. They are sorely in need of re-writing. AOPA started the IMC rating - perhaps someone like BEagle could give them a prod.
There was a tragic 'VFR into IMC' accident over the English Channel recently. The CAA have produced a cartoon illustrating the dangers of this. All well and good but their time would be better spent promoting getting an IMC qualification that doesn't mean taking 3 months off work to achieve. It is rightly claimed that many lives have been saved over the years by the IMC rating but with the uncertainties of its future, many PPLs have shied away from doing it.
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I have also been made aware of another question in the nav. exam showing a picture of an RBI and asking what is the true bearing to the NDB.
this surely should be in an IMC question paper not a PPL one.
this surely should be in an IMC question paper not a PPL one.
The RAF definition of track that was provided earlier is just the same as used by FAA. Track describes the path taken by the aircraft. The measurement of a bearing on a map or chart does not require the involvement of an aircraft.
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Well the exam board has the data. If there is a significant failure rate on some questions, either the question is worded incorrectly or no viable answer is given.
UK we use term "track" for line drawn on the map.
We use "track made good" for actual in flight path.
UK we use term "track" for line drawn on the map.
We use "track made good" for actual in flight path.