Best PPL study books

[Vems]

Read the book first - don't study just from the confuser. The questions in the exam are a bit different and you should understand why answer B is the right one.

The books - apart from Air Law - are really interesting and they are a good read. They provide you with all the knowledge you will need for your PPL exams.

I usually read a chapter, make notes, run through notes and then move to the next chapter, once i finish the book, i run through all the notes i made and if I don't understand something fully, I go back to it and read through the certain chapter in the book again.


Once I think I have it all in my head, i do the confuser questions quite a few times. If i get something wrong - I read the explanation and on a seperate sheet of paper i write the question number down.. as with every other wrong answer.

Confuser is useful, really useful but it shouldn't be used as a primary source of information for your PPL exams.

Study for PPL exams hard.. ATPL comes next.

[Donalk]

I found the confuser very useful as a study aid and I imagine it to be required reading for those sitting the UK CAA exams. However there are national differences in the way that PPL questions are set, and in my case (Belgium) the actual exam questions were very different in both format and content from those in the confuser.

Make sure you localise the air law exam to the location you train in as this can trip you up.

On the textbook side I found the Thom books well written with good content and quite user friendly.

Best of luck.

[MrFixer!!!]

Ppl Books

Hi all,

I have started my PPL lessons and was wondering which ones are the BEST PPL books for the exams??? as there is so much choice available in the market!!!

Is there any one who wants to Offload their PPL Confuser by any chance??

Thanks in advance!!!

[liam548]

confuser is a must IMO and really help you out even though it has some mistakes which generally does "confuse" you.

I used this set for my PPL and found them a fairly easy read. I backed up a couple of subjects with OAT cd roms, including MET and aircraft tech.

Air Pilot's Manual Volume 1- Flying Training @ Flightstore Pilot Supplies

[shaun.s]

I used the AFE books, I also have the Trevor Thom Air Law/Met book and in general I far preferred the AFE ones. Much easier to read, and they have useful self-test questions at the end of each section. I used these in conjunction with the Confuser (essential) and did very well.
There's a confuser-type book as part of the AFE set but it's nowhere near as good as the 'proper' confuser.

[24Carrot]

I endorse what liam548 said: the PPL confuser has a small number of mistaken answers (<2%?), but it is very effective at getting you through the exams.

I got my worst exam result in my strongest subject (Nav), possibly because I took it before I discovered the confuser, (though a ruler malfunction didn't help either...)

The IMC confuser is pretty good too, when you get on to that.

If you want to understand the subjects in depth, neither exams nor confuser may be appropriate, but that wasn't your question!

[BackPacker]

(though a ruler malfunction didn't help either...)

There must be a story in here. Tell us.

(Back on topic: I used the AFE/Jeremy Pratt ones and got first passes in all subjects. I've not seen the Trevor Thom ones so I can't compare. AFE and TT used to be the only two book series for the PPL but I seem to remember someone here announcing a third supplier a while ago. Maybe Oxford, but I'm not sure.)

[stevelup]

Hi

All the books are significantly cheaper from Amazon by the way.

For example Flying Training (Vol 1) is Ģ15.49 at Amazon compared with Ģ23.00 from the various pilot shops. Also, delivery is free.

Steve

[24Carrot]

There must be a story in here. Tell us.

Some might say I'm being unfair to the ruler, but here goes:

Near the start of the exam I had to measure some distances. One of them was too long for my trusty Radio Nav plotter, so I used my nav ruler for the first time. It was about 6 inches long, so that last mark on the end had to be 60 nm, didn't it...

At last I came to a multiple choice answer which was impossible given my distances, and I went back and reworked the paper. Quite stressful, as I recall.

The moral is RTFR - Read The ****ing Ruler.

[JLMF]

BOOKS

Iīm looking for some books for my PPL,

Airlife Trevor Thom The Air Pilotīs Manual, I need 2, 3, 4 and 5

If anyone have some I could shop it, here in Sapin itīs so much difficult to found this book, arenīt in any shops here.

Are they good books?


BEST REGARDS, JOSE LUIS

[Whirlygig]

Yes, they're good books. You don't need vol 5 for PPL yet and I'd recommend Vol 1 and 6 as well.

Amazon.co.uk will ship to Spain.

Cheers

Whirls

[Juno78]

Aren't the books that are cheaper on Amazon generally older editions? The Ģ15.49 Trevor Thom ones look like they're 2003 editions - I know it probably doesn't make much difference in some areas but I don't think I'd want to be learning Air Law from a 6 year old book.

[ozbeck]

Having completed my exams using the Air Pilots Manual Series I think the confuser is a must, since it helps you understand the type of questions you will get and that familiarity saves time in the exam.

(Although not directly related to the question) I recommend for the Nav exam that you practice finding locations on the chart using the latitude and longitude scales. I overlooked this, and since I wasn't fluent at it spent 10 minutes of shear panic trying to find the required locations, without which the whole exam is a no go. I know its a basic thing but not necessarily easy when the nerves have cut in at the start of the exam.
A friend of mine had exactly the same experience.

[stevelup]

Aren't the books that are cheaper on Amazon generally older editions?

Hi

No, they just haven't updated their cover artwork and associated information. They definitely ship the latest editions - I bought the whole set except radio nav.

Steve

[liam548]

yes amazon.co.uk will send to Spain.

They will be written in English obviously!, not sure if they do a Spanish version?

[DiamondC]

I used TrevorThom and passed everything first time (self study).

[Intercepted]

The Confuser seems to be considered as essential, but I got through all exams with a good result using the AFE books only.

I where about to buy the confuser but didn't do it in time for my first exam (airlaw) and had to rely on the "Private Pilot's Licence Course PPL Question & Answer Simplifier" by AFE. This went well so I decided not to buy the Confuser and used this book for all other tests as well. It has 3 mock tests for each subject and a really useful "essential review" for each subject. It has explanations to why a certain answer is correct using crossreferences to the other books in the series.

Private Pilot's Licence Course PPL Question & Answer Simplifier : AFE

[BackPacker]

If you're going to be doing your PPL in Spain, presumably under the oversight of the Spanish CAA and in Spanish, you should probably get Spanish PPL books too.

Particularly your "air law" books need to reflect the way JAR-FCL and a bunch of other regulations are put into Spanish law, while both the Trevor Thom and Jeremy Pratt books cover the way it's been put in UK law.

[JLMF]

Question?

I going to do my PPL in UK,Stapleford, next week.Iīm from Spain but I have decided to do it in UK.
I need the PPL books, I have three of seven , the collection is Airlife, author: Trevor Thom, The Air pilotīs Manual, I need the others four, but there are many collections of the same author, the difference is the publication year.will I have any problem if they are a little old?Are there different concepts?

Are there any problem with the licences?, because I only going to do in UK my PPL licence and my ATPL(A),the rest in Spain,

I think is JAA all Europe and I can do my licences where I want, is this correctc?

THANK YOU.

[Kiev23]

I am looking for a set of brand new PPL study books. I think oxfords are the most expensive ones but are they the best?

Would love all opinions !!

Thanks