TC PPL QUESTIONS

[J-Hunter]

Do you all have any idea where I could find practice multiple choice questions related to TC's meteorology section. I am looking to practice that section in particular since I'm having a bit of trouble with it. Thank you

[skypirate88]

http://www.tc.gc.ca/civilaviation/gener ... 4/menu.htm

This should help a little...it is straight from TC...just select the Met section
I have found the Air Command Weather Manual to be helpful as well when trying to grasp met.

Good luck and happy landings

[J-Hunter]

http://www.tc.gc.ca/civilaviation/gener ... 4/menu.htm

This should help a little...it is straight from TC...just select the Met section
I have found the Air Command Weather Manual to be helpful as well when trying to grasp met.

Good luck and happy landings

Thank you! This is the kind of stuff I was looking for. Perhaps you know of other websites or study guides that I could buy?

[skypirate88]

http://www.aviationworld.net/canadian-p ... th-ed.html

This is a pretty good book as well...at least that is what I have been told. Personally I never used it but some of my students have found it helpful. It is an entire question bank, including a met section with the answers is the back. I think there is something like 1/2 a dozen sample exams in it.

[pilotincommand]

www.pilotexams.com its free..

[loopa]

Ok red alert...

The fact that you're using "practice questions" to learn something that you're "weak" at is a receipt for failure. Try to understand WHY it is that you need to know this? Absolutely anybody is able sit down, memorize how questions and answers are worded and pass the met section on the exam. But what will most likely happen by doing it this way is that you will forget half of the things, not look for the things you need to know, and this can potentially lead to hazardous flight planning and flight practice by you.

Don't get me wrong, the PPL is a license to learn, but there are some essentials that you need to "know" so that you don't make stupid mistakes out there that can potentially be hazardous to you and the people around you. Ask yourself this question, would you feel safe going into an airplane with a pilot that got his license by "practicing questions" and not actually understanding most of the material? I bet you'd feel rather unsafe and at unease.

Please don't take this as a personal attack, as I am already smelling the stinky feet of trolls that will come here and belittle my advice to you.

If you're in Vancouver, I would be more than happy to give you some free tutoring on meteorology !


Either way, I wish you the best and hope that you become a dashing pilot

[weelard]

i agree with loopa
pratce questions are good to know which area you are weak at. you do the pratice questions, see where you need to study, and study it.
the canadian private pilot questtions have reference to tell you wrhe you need to study.
i aam also in the vancouver area too

[Big Pistons Forever]

+1 with what Loopa said.

However on a related topic I find it unfortunate that in fight schools often do not do a very good job at connecting weather theory.... to the weather actually affecting a particular training flight...in other words the practical use of weather knowledge. I recommend that all new pilots get thier weather from talking to a FSS rather than just off the web. That way they can ask the specialist to describe what is actually creating the weather now, and what is going to cause it to change in the future. Most specialists are quite happy to provide background and context to the METARS and TAFs. Comparing the reports to what the specialist said is a good way to connect hte theory to the practice. I remember one students "Ah Hah" moment. He said it doesn't look good for our exercise (first partial panel) because although the weather is soon going to get much better it is due to a cold front passage so the air is going to be very bumpy.

[loopa]

You caught me to it BPF as I was re-reading my post from yesterday.

FSS are awesome, especially Kamloops FIC. They are always helpful; once I spent nearly 30 minutes talking to this one FSS. Questions kept following.

About the flight school comment on met; couldn't agree with you more. I find that the largest lacking area is that meteorology isn't taught properly from the basics. It feels like they don't make a strong effort to emphasize the basics of meteorology, and hence, students pass it off as unimportant - while every student that I have had the pleasure to help with meteorology was struggling simply because they didn't understand the basic principles of the what,how,why's, and when's of our atmospheric weather. I was tutoring a CPL student once and the poor guy couldn't answer my simple question of "what creates weather." When I see basic things like this not being covered in ground school, I can't help but to question the teaching strategies of so many instructor's. It sure doesn't parallel with my mind. Yet, I'm the one looking for a job so maybe I am just too good for my own cause... lol

I'm glad to see you guys agree

[Shiny Side Up]

I recommend that all new pilots get their weather from talking to a FSS rather than just off the web.

Unfortunately the quality of this resourse to pilots is being decreased. The actual qualified meteorologists are slowly disappearing from the system. Occasionally when you get a "weather briefing" these days the guy on the other end might not have any more qualification as to its interpretation than someone with the met information from Private Pilot groundschool. Gone also are the days when you could actually walk into the FSS and have a chat and get the full access to their resources.

[Big Pistons Forever]

I recommend that all new pilots get their weather from talking to a FSS rather than just off the web.

Unfortunately the quality of this resourse to pilots is being decreased. The actual qualified meteorologists are slowly disappearing from the system. Occasionally when you get a "weather briefing" these days the guy on the other end might not have any more qualification as to its interpretation than someone with the met information from Private Pilot groundschool. Gone also are the days when you could actually walk into the FSS and have a chat and get the full access to their resources.

I sure miss being able to actually go to the Met office and talk to a forecaster with tons of local knowledge, so yes the current FSS briefers will not be at that level, but I have never experienced any FSS person who only had a PPL level of weather knowledge. If I did talk to someone who was clueless I would just say goodbye and redial so I can get somebody else.