EASA PPL theory syllabus
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EASA PPL theory syllabus
Dear Ladies, Gentlemen and members of the non binary community (stole that from Star Trek TNG!)
My girlfriend has started doing her EASA PPL in Slovacchia. Since it is CBT she sometimes asks me for help to understand questions and I happily help out. That way I can dust the cobwebbed rusty cells in my head. However I now noticed that sometimes her questions are more ATPL like. For example she had to calculate UTC from a longitude on the other side of the world and an ETD to land at another longitude at sunset. Then there were jet streams etc. To make it short, all stuff I came across when I did my ATPL theory. When I did my PPL in the United Kingdom, PPL theory was pretty basic, like getting your head around the CRP-5, reading charts and understanding bearings and cross-bearings to find out where you were. Now this was over two decades ago so I suspect things may have changed a little.
My question is this, did an EASA gremlin find its way through to the PPL syllabus over-complicating everything due to the fact that there is a new LAPL licence? Or should I encourage her to have a talk with the HOT?
Thank you all.
My girlfriend has started doing her EASA PPL in Slovacchia. Since it is CBT she sometimes asks me for help to understand questions and I happily help out. That way I can dust the cobwebbed rusty cells in my head. However I now noticed that sometimes her questions are more ATPL like. For example she had to calculate UTC from a longitude on the other side of the world and an ETD to land at another longitude at sunset. Then there were jet streams etc. To make it short, all stuff I came across when I did my ATPL theory. When I did my PPL in the United Kingdom, PPL theory was pretty basic, like getting your head around the CRP-5, reading charts and understanding bearings and cross-bearings to find out where you were. Now this was over two decades ago so I suspect things may have changed a little.
My question is this, did an EASA gremlin find its way through to the PPL syllabus over-complicating everything due to the fact that there is a new LAPL licence? Or should I encourage her to have a talk with the HOT?
Thank you all.
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From: Sunny Solihull
speedbird1981,
regretfully yes.
According to a PPL instructor/examiner with over 50 years experience I talked to a couple of months ago he has noticed more EASA CPL/ATPL type questions appear in the PPL exams (LAPL sit same exams) from around 2020.
Just like the ATPLs some of the questions are highly suspect however, it would appear that time theory & conversions ARE in the PPL Navigation theory syllabus/objectives including the Dateline would you believe. The question you mentioned has come straight from ATPL level, completely pointless at PPL level but that's EASA for you.
NB. UK CAA no longer issuing LAPL from 1st October 2025.
did an EASA gremlin find its way through to the PPL syllabus over-complicating everything
According to a PPL instructor/examiner with over 50 years experience I talked to a couple of months ago he has noticed more EASA CPL/ATPL type questions appear in the PPL exams (LAPL sit same exams) from around 2020.
Just like the ATPLs some of the questions are highly suspect however, it would appear that time theory & conversions ARE in the PPL Navigation theory syllabus/objectives including the Dateline would you believe. The question you mentioned has come straight from ATPL level, completely pointless at PPL level but that's EASA for you.
NB. UK CAA no longer issuing LAPL from 1st October 2025.
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