Advice - ATPL Human Factors Exam
 

Hitting the ATPL HF exam soon. Chasing any helpful info on the exam, anything that may not have made the AFT/Bob Tait notes/practice exams.

Many thanks in advance, as im not keen for any surprises!!:ok:

I only studied Bob Tait and achieved 97%. The questions were very similar to those in the back of his book and there were no surprises.

There was a good thread posted here a while ago about the exam.

Good luck!

Just go sit it!

Similar story, skimmed through the ATC book, sat the practice exams in the back and passed in the 90's first go.

ATPL Human Factors
 

I reckon a fair percentage of the exam questions are lifted directly from Bob Tait's book. Can't recommend his text highly enough.

I'd suggest its probably the other way around, but yes, Bob's book is great for CHUF.

Aircraft - Human Performance & Limitations by Tony Wilson is also worth having a look over, in particular the few pages that explain a number of well known accidents in terms of human factor causes - there will almost certainly be a question on one of them in the exam...

TT

Hey mate, ill also back the Bob Tait book, did it and also got around 90 first go. If you know that book youll pass with flying colours :ok:

hey guys, sorry to re-hash this thread however im curious about what bob tait book your talking about? the only one i can find online is the book with the red cover and a chain on it which looks more aimed at CPL HF.

G'day devolved.. I used Bob Tait's CPL Human Factors text (and nothing else) to study for the ATPL exam and passed it no worries at all. If you know the text and do his practice exams you'll find the exam easy. I got a better mark for ATPL HF then CPL HF and both times used Bob Taits book.

I concur Tait's book (red cover and chain) is all that you'll need! Know it backwards obviously. Get the new edition though! I had the 96 edition, and still passed!

One of the more friendly ATPL exams. Having said that i do know folks who took it as a given, and failed so...

Cheers

Cheers guys, ill give the bob tait book a go.. Yeah it may be an easy exam, however i guess some people do take the subject lightly and fail.

I got a question on how Alcohol affects the hearing ability. Still have not managed to find the answer in any of the CPL / ATPL texts.

Found the answer by Googling it!!!

Alcohol affects the low frequency hearing!!!

Good Luck

For my CPL bob taits book was great.

For ATPL, I knew the theory front to back, as well as Tony Wilsons front to back, AND Secombe Aviation Course Notes.

I was a bit surprised with the questions I got, must have been bad luck but virtually all the stuff I knew and had memorized was not required and I had about 15 questions on things about attitudes and really odd questions! Nothing like bob tait prac exams etc etc.

Id say read the Tony Wilson book a few times before sitting.

ksa, how long ago did u sit the exam? Tony Wilson aye? not sure if i saw that at concept aviation. Have they recently changed/added questions to the bank for this exam? Would explain why ATC have a new book out on factors which is a bloody novel..

Bob Tait's CPL human factors book is exactly the same text as the AFT ATPL human factors notes - page for page. AFT's is just binded like their other texts, and has some supplementary practice tests- albeit containing the same questions as in the notes.

The only thing I found that AFT/Bob Tait didn't cover in the required detail was attitudes and a bit on selective and comparative bias etc.

don't take it too lightly found many questions/ topic that i hadn't seen before. Thought i may have missed it when i pressed the submit button!

I sat the CHUF exam September last year as my first CPL exam. I was so nervous about the CPL exams that I spent about 8 weeks studying this as my first subject and I wanted a good mark. I was shocked when I sat the exam, hardly any of the practice exam questions from the Bob Tait book were even remotely similar to the Cyber Exam. In the end I passed (one more question wrong would have been a fail!) but I was feeling as if I had been studying the wrong material. I got home after the exam and checked the Bob Tait website for my versions currency and it seems my version was replaced the same month I bought it - Jan 08. The comment on the Bob Tait website said something like "this latest version completely rewritten for the CASA Cyber Exams". All my other CPL exams have been no problem with Bob Tait Texts. I did however ditch the two other out dated books I had and purchased the latest version to make sure this didn't happen again!

I just sat the chuf exam on Monday. It was first CPL exam, so I was hoping it would be relatively easy. However I studied all the possible text and did all the Bob Tait online practice exams. I also studied every point on the syllabus. When I got in the exam I got some of the most ambiguous questions. Nothing on hypoxia, or EPT or anything that i thought would be in the exam. I wouldnt take this exam so lightly. If your unlucky enough to get bad questions it can be a hard exam.

I did the ATPL Human Factors exam about 2 years ago using the Bob Tait material and although it was quite interesting, the practice questions were nothing like what I got in the exam. I managed to some how pass with a score in the 70's, but God knows how!! I really thought I failed.