Avoid English PPL theory exams at Hungary center!
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Avoid English PPL theory exams at Hungary center!
Thought I'd share my experience with doing PPL exams at Hungary Centre - would highly recommend using the Austrian Centre is Szeged instead....
It is crazy how bad the English translations are!!
To start with - there were many small mistakes such as 'joke' instead of 'yoke'.. or 'bee' instead of 'be'.. ...
Secondly - in every exam there were phrases which are unheard of /are phrased as if a 2 year old is describing them... There were many in my exam but a couple which I remember were 'elevation steering wheel' and 'horizontal surface of gravity'...
Thirdly - There were several questions where the answers didn't make sense - I assume because of mis-translations.. One of the questions I had was 'Your plane is in a left bank after being hit by a thermal under the left wing. What is your initial reaction/recovery?'.. All the answers involved 'apply left aileron'..... making the left bank even bigger!!
Another question I had was 'you are taking off from a runway with a downslope.. the flat-surface takeoff distance is xyx metres.. calculate the increased take-off distance'.. But having a downslope decreases it!!. but because there were the answers for both an upslope and downslope.. there is no way of telling which one is correct.. because the mis-translation could be with upslope/downslope or increase/decrease...
The phrases described above are only a small percentage of the grammar mistakes made... At least 60% of questions were barely understandable/not using standard phrases...
It is crazy how bad the English translations are!!
To start with - there were many small mistakes such as 'joke' instead of 'yoke'.. or 'bee' instead of 'be'.. ...
Secondly - in every exam there were phrases which are unheard of /are phrased as if a 2 year old is describing them... There were many in my exam but a couple which I remember were 'elevation steering wheel' and 'horizontal surface of gravity'...
Thirdly - There were several questions where the answers didn't make sense - I assume because of mis-translations.. One of the questions I had was 'Your plane is in a left bank after being hit by a thermal under the left wing. What is your initial reaction/recovery?'.. All the answers involved 'apply left aileron'..... making the left bank even bigger!!
Another question I had was 'you are taking off from a runway with a downslope.. the flat-surface takeoff distance is xyx metres.. calculate the increased take-off distance'.. But having a downslope decreases it!!. but because there were the answers for both an upslope and downslope.. there is no way of telling which one is correct.. because the mis-translation could be with upslope/downslope or increase/decrease...
The phrases described above are only a small percentage of the grammar mistakes made... At least 60% of questions were barely understandable/not using standard phrases...
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100% agree, I had issues with this as well, especially with PoF as many questions I didn't understand what they meant, the sentences made no sense, and some words seems like were translated using other similar words but led to constant misunderstandings. Spoke with other guys at my school and they also experienced the same, also with PoF actually. Had to retake it 2 more times, the one I passed I had to answer randomly to several questions as the question was not clear or any of the answers seemed correct etc I was lucky enough that I chose some answers they picked as the correct one.
