Phew. That's good news. Hot carbs one less thing to worry about. I know I haven't got a a carb cooling button on the panel to deal with any pesky carb heat.

Kevin31 - we are all still rooting for you. Great advice from Heston.

PASSSED!!!
 

Hey all,

Sorry for its been a while and not getting back to anyone. Thank you all for the kind words of encouragement.

Your be pleased to no finally passed. Went to see Derek Davidson in Bournemouth last week. Had the whole day there 1 on 1 and took test at end of the day with a score of 92%.

Really pleased feel that I am on my way now. Started to read the MET stuff next. Wow there some words in there that I never heard of but hope this will sink in a bit better then air law.

Anyone got any tips for the MET stuff?

Regards

Kevin

Same as before

Read the books
Questions from the confuser
Questions from the Oxford Discs (I really liked those)
And pay for ground schooling before the exam

Best wishes

John

use the perfecter
 

all the questions you have to answer are in the Perfecter book - you just have to learn the answers to them all and you will do well! Books | Question & Answer Books | JAR031 | PPL Perfector - Keith Williams

Warm air flowing over a body of water absorbs moisture
Warm air rises, cold air sinks. Rising air cools due to the pressure drop, sinking air heats due to the pressure increase.
Rising air eventually condenses, when temp = dewpoint
Air flows from areas of high pressure to areas of low pressure, and is influenced by "oreographic" features such as mountains.
Air flowing from A to B gets a swing to the left due to the Coriolis effect. (To the right if on the Southern hemisphere.)
Water freezes when it gets below 0C, except when it's very pure, in which case it can exist in supercooled liquid form well below 0C, until it is confronted with an "impurity" like any part of an aircraft, and then freezes instantaneously.

The Met office tries to log and predict all this and communicates this to you in the form of METARs, TAFs, SIGMETs, VOLMET and the F215/216/415/416 forms.

For aircraft performance predictions the ISO has defined something called the "standard atmosphere", which is a theoretical model only with certain properties, but which you'll never encounter in real life.

Everything else can be logically derived from the above.

Backpacker you've got the Coriolis effect the wrong way round :) in the northern hemisphere air moving from high to low pressure experiences a force to the right. So wind goes counter-clockwise around a low pressure area, clockwise around high pressure.

Otherwise a da*n good summary!

Bugger. You're right. Sorry.:O