ATPL Aerocourse

[BEFAN5]

Has anyone taken the ATPL Aerocourse lately? The price appears to be rising (from what I remember) and I would like to know if anyone can say it was a positive use of $600.

Uses of $600...
Option 1 - ATPL Aerocourse
Option 2- .($100), Aerocourse Test book($100) and $400 worth of beer.

[CPLMike89]

Friend of mine was in the last one passed both exams that week. Still says its worth every penny. However $400 of beer is a great thing.

[Bushav8er]

Get the course book and study - period. Much cheaper and just as effective. Just do all the practice exams until you consistently get 80% or better.

[Hedley]

+1

If it helps any, I found the SARON and SAMRA much easier than the INRAT, which I have written (and passed) THREE times over the decades.

It's been a long time, but IIRC learn to calculate CP and PNR and memorize a bunch of regs. Oh yeah, astral navigation: LHA, GHA. Is that still on the tests?

[fanspeed]

All of the study material is free of charge. Use it and save all your money for beer. It's not rocket surgery...

[Bushav8er]

It's been a long time, but IIRC learn to calculate CP and PNR and memorize a bunch of regs.

List of formulas is in the book, memorize them and as soon as you are in the exam room, write them out of a scrap paper.

Oh yeah, astral navigation: LHA, GHA. Is that still on the tests?

LOL - your age (and mine) is showing - no - that's not on anymore.

[Hedley]

Isn't it funny how stuff that used to be so critically important, isn't any more?

Remember "flicker vertigo"? It quietly disappeared a few years back, when
someone realized that the only people who actually suffered from it turned
out to be epileptics having seizures. Oops.

And remember "ice bridging"? Gone the way of the dodo bird.

Hm. Fascinating how the laws of physics change over time.

PS That's a good trick with the formulae - barf them back ASAP. I remember an electrical engineering exam I took, back in the early 1980's. The professor kindly included 18 pages of formulae for our convenient reference! Nearly thirty years later, I'm afraid I don't recall a single goddamned one of them.

[Big Pistons Forever]

Very little on the exam has much to do with the real world of 704/705 airline flying. Being lazy I took the three day cram course, put some cotton wool in my ears on the last day of he course so the info didn't leak out, and then wrote the exam the next morning....and got a pretty good mark. I still think in terms of results per dollar spent it was excellent value.

[Redneck_pilot86]

It's not rocket surgery...

haha.

[ctmorawetz]

Very little on the exam has much to do with the real world of 704/705 airline flying. Being lazy I took the three day cram course, put some cotton wool in my ears on the last day of he course so the info didn't leak out, and then wrote the exam the next morning....and got a pretty good mark. I still think in terms of results per dollar spent it was excellent value.

I hope this strategy works for me next month

[YOWza]

I'd seriously consider just getting the book and study on your own accord. The questions are right on.
The . ATPL is fairly good, too. Write 'em to 90-something percent and then do the real ones. Can't lose.