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I walked out with a little under an hour left on the clock. I felt it took longer than NAV, just to make sure I was really accurate with the graphs and trim sheets, but I wouldn't imagine it's nearly as time critical as Flight Planning.
Thanks mate, good to hear I'm a fan of exams with good time buffers.
On another note - what would be the minimum CAOs required for the exam? Will 20.7.0 and 20.7.1B be enough to get me through? I lent my CAOs to a friend for her air law exam so I'm printing out the minimum required CAOs for my P&L exam next week.
Cheers.
On another note - what would be the minimum CAOs required for the exam? Will 20.7.0 and 20.7.1B be enough to get me through? I lent my CAOs to a friend for her air law exam so I'm printing out the minimum required CAOs for my P&L exam next week.
Cheers.
I found dividers useful - rather than trying to get a line perfectly aligned, measure distance of point from a grid line, and transfer that up/down or across as required.
Good luck.
Good luck.
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Sat the exam today. Passed. All the sorts of questions you would expect from Avery and AFT practice papers. Maybe slightly easier though. Didn't get a single payload question however.
I used a really fancy set of dividers for the exam for passenger/cargo load scale measurements on the trim sheet. They had a wheel between the two legs that you rotate to spread the legs. Super accurate and it sure helped I'm sure as some of the answers were ridiculously close!
Example: "what is the trim setting for take-off with 20 degrees flap" (after calculating a scale movement from a given starting CoG) 5.1, 4.9, 6.0 etc.
I was given the dividers, so not sure what they were worth, maybe $35, but I would consider it seriously. Plus now you can draw mint circles with it...
Another tip if using dividers: When the arrows on the trim sheet dictate which way to adjust the scale movement, always put the point of your compass on the starting point from which to move and have the pencil end ready positioned in the direction of the scale change before you even adjust the dividers. That way you never move in the wrong direction.
When practising I would scratch the tip of my HB mechanical pencil around on paper to sharpen the lead to a fine point, made the lines that much finer. Pedantic I know, but thats the way the exam is with the super close answers. Anything to help! The pencils provided in the exam however are mechanical pencils with a very brittle lead, maybe 4H grade, not so easy to sharpen.
Best of luck
I used a really fancy set of dividers for the exam for passenger/cargo load scale measurements on the trim sheet. They had a wheel between the two legs that you rotate to spread the legs. Super accurate and it sure helped I'm sure as some of the answers were ridiculously close!
Example: "what is the trim setting for take-off with 20 degrees flap" (after calculating a scale movement from a given starting CoG) 5.1, 4.9, 6.0 etc.
I was given the dividers, so not sure what they were worth, maybe $35, but I would consider it seriously. Plus now you can draw mint circles with it...
Another tip if using dividers: When the arrows on the trim sheet dictate which way to adjust the scale movement, always put the point of your compass on the starting point from which to move and have the pencil end ready positioned in the direction of the scale change before you even adjust the dividers. That way you never move in the wrong direction.
When practising I would scratch the tip of my HB mechanical pencil around on paper to sharpen the lead to a fine point, made the lines that much finer. Pedantic I know, but thats the way the exam is with the super close answers. Anything to help! The pencils provided in the exam however are mechanical pencils with a very brittle lead, maybe 4H grade, not so easy to sharpen.
Best of luck
