Study material

[Eti]

Are there any good online courses that would help me pass my ground school for PPL?

Also, I have been looking at books but there’s a few out there so would be great if there are any recommendations

[Dave Gittins]

The Trevor Thom series worked for me 25 years ago and I believe they have been continually updated since and are now in 7 volumes.

[Discorde]

The book 'Handling Light Aircraft' by Julien Evans (available in Kindle and paperback format) might be helpful to you Eti. It covers:

- Basic theory of flight
- Technical description of the typical single-engined light aircraft (including VP propellers, retractable landing gear, EFIS instrumentation and FADEC engine controls)
- Detailed theory of flight
- Aircraft handling in day VMC conditions
- Brief introduction to instrument flight
- Emergency handling
- The Flight Manual

[MrAverage]

Send me a PM if you'd like a one to one chat about your options, if you're anywhere near London. No charge, no obligation and no hard sell.

[Genghis the Engineer]

Originally Posted by Dave Gittins

The Trevor Thom series worked for me 25 years ago and I believe they have been continually updated since and are now in 7 volumes.

And there's the problem. The Air Pilot manuals, originally by Trevor Thom, revised by Peter Godwin, and now whoever has most recently updated them, since Pete died a couple of years ago, are a big collection of thick books that make a great source of reference, but the world has moved on and there are some amazing online study aids now. Pretty much all of them are more user friendly than wading through seven volumes of books, particularly for younger people who have learned to primarily learn from tools like that, rather than the printed page.

The school I instruct at use Bristol Groundschool, but I hear very good things about EasyPPL and Quizaero also. There are three decent options to look at.

G

[RHT23]

Has anybody used Quizaero? I've just had a look around their website, it looks quite interesting and easy to navigate. The price is around £60 - £80 cheaper than CATS and EasyPPL but then I think you only get 6 months access with Quizaero rather than 18 months with the others. Any thoughts on these would be much appreciated. (Unfortunately I can't use Bristol Groundschool as their package isnt compatible with Chromebooks).