Air Law Revision
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Air Law Revision
Hello everyone,
Doing my PPL at Biggin Hill and being hurried on to solo but i am having a lot of trouble getting air law to 'stick'. I have read the book (Pooleys), then went back and found that I maybe know 10% of it, so I'm now going through the book making notes, but I'm finding it an incredibly long and straining process. It has taken me 3.5hrs+ to do 34/183 pages of the book, and I don't have more than 3 hours a day I can devote to this and as I'm sure your aware I don't want to have to spend that long although don't get me wrong, I love aviation and I do find this interesting, It's just not going in
I got a copy of the confuser but I find it ambiguous and not as helpful as I had hoped.
If anyone has some tips that would be great
Thanks,
Tom
Doing my PPL at Biggin Hill and being hurried on to solo but i am having a lot of trouble getting air law to 'stick'. I have read the book (Pooleys), then went back and found that I maybe know 10% of it, so I'm now going through the book making notes, but I'm finding it an incredibly long and straining process. It has taken me 3.5hrs+ to do 34/183 pages of the book, and I don't have more than 3 hours a day I can devote to this and as I'm sure your aware I don't want to have to spend that long although don't get me wrong, I love aviation and I do find this interesting, It's just not going in
I got a copy of the confuser but I find it ambiguous and not as helpful as I had hoped.
If anyone has some tips that would be great
Thanks,
Tom
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Many people have had the same problem, personally I found Air Law incredibly dull and I'm not the only one. Your flying school might well do a ground school where an instructor can work it through with you. A working environment with others around may suit you more than just reading a book and taking notes.
Little and often may also help more than attempting to do as much as you can as quickly as possible. Take it a chapter at a time, do the questions and see how you get on. Once you're happy with the Pooleys book, hit the confuser (it IS good) - those questions best resemble the actual exams in style.
Take your time over the whole process, don't be "hurried" into going solo, as much as you may want to. At 16 you probably have GCSEs coming up which are quite a bit more important than flying stuff (as much as you may not want to believe it!). I was in the same situation as you once, so I appreciate that something like Air Law may seem a bit alien at first. If you continue to have problems then talk to your instructor, it is their job to help you through the process and give you advice.
Little and often may also help more than attempting to do as much as you can as quickly as possible. Take it a chapter at a time, do the questions and see how you get on. Once you're happy with the Pooleys book, hit the confuser (it IS good) - those questions best resemble the actual exams in style.
Take your time over the whole process, don't be "hurried" into going solo, as much as you may want to. At 16 you probably have GCSEs coming up which are quite a bit more important than flying stuff (as much as you may not want to believe it!). I was in the same situation as you once, so I appreciate that something like Air Law may seem a bit alien at first. If you continue to have problems then talk to your instructor, it is their job to help you through the process and give you advice.
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AL is a load of disconnected facts, the vast majority of which you don't need to know to fly safely.
The Confuser remains the best tool for the PPL exams, but for AL there may be additional aids; for example the matrix of visibilities and separations from cloud can be represented with some sort of diagram which you can memorise and then quickly draw when you enter the exam room.
The Confuser remains the best tool for the PPL exams, but for AL there may be additional aids; for example the matrix of visibilities and separations from cloud can be represented with some sort of diagram which you can memorise and then quickly draw when you enter the exam room.
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I'm in exactly the same position as you and found the best way really was to revise and take notes little and often. I've found the perfect environment is on my lunch hour at work and just write a page of notes a day until the chapter is complete then do the practice questions at home in spare time. The very boring office environment surrounding me suddenly highlights my Air Law as the most interesting topic in front of me so more goes in. At last I had found the solution to retention! Best of Luck!
