Calculators in ATPL exams
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From: Kilmacolm
I really hope so!
Anyway the answer is a reassuring yes but it cannot be a programmable calculator.
It makes the questions that need sqr roots, sin, cos, tan functions etc a little easier than having to use trig.tables. :-)
Anyway the answer is a reassuring yes but it cannot be a programmable calculator.
It makes the questions that need sqr roots, sin, cos, tan functions etc a little easier than having to use trig.tables. :-)
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From: Hill Street Blues
Yes you can, there is a lot of debate as to what you can and cannot use, however you are allowed a non programable, alpha numeric calc. So I got a Casio FX-83MS from WH Smiths, lots of the people who sat their exams with me seemed to have one. cost about £5
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Yes, you are permitted to use a calculator in the JAR exams.
Unfortunately the CAA rules concerning the acceptable types of calculator are all a bit ambiguous. They must not be progammable in the sense that you must not be able to pre-progam them with lots of equations.
Although the rules also say that they must not be alpha-numeric, almost every calculator in the shops these days is alpha-numeric. The CGIs have asked the CAA to provide a list of acceptable calculators, but they refused to do so.
On very rare occasions studunts have had their calculators confiscated. The best option is to get a CASIO FX83MS. This has all of the functions you require and is used by a very large number of students, so if you are challenged by the invigilator just ask him/her to check what all of the other students in the room are using.
Unfortunately the CAA rules concerning the acceptable types of calculator are all a bit ambiguous. They must not be progammable in the sense that you must not be able to pre-progam them with lots of equations.
Although the rules also say that they must not be alpha-numeric, almost every calculator in the shops these days is alpha-numeric. The CGIs have asked the CAA to provide a list of acceptable calculators, but they refused to do so.
On very rare occasions studunts have had their calculators confiscated. The best option is to get a CASIO FX83MS. This has all of the functions you require and is used by a very large number of students, so if you are challenged by the invigilator just ask him/her to check what all of the other students in the room are using.
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I use the Fx-83 at work, it does absolutely everything I need in engineering terms - or any flight planning, logbook adding, etc. I happen to do. For under a tenner, it's a superb bit of kit. Whilst I have a high spec Casio progammable on my desk at home, frankly I use hardly any of it's extra functions.
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I took two calculators into each exam. An all bells and whistles one (non-programmable Casio two line jobbie) and a basic no-alpha Albert2. This was at Gatwick and the invigilators didn't even blink an eye. Second one came in useful when somebody forget theirs.
