PPL Examinations

[dirtysidedown]

PPL flight exam is booked! C'mon Friday pm! Any tips other then the ones that have been provided in the PPL Flight Exam Study Guide.?

That being said, I have now begun re-reading the FTGU and am at page 134 and I am also at Chapter 12 of ACWM... I plan to not have to re-take these exams!

[New_PIC]

I just wrote mine on Saturday. Overall I averaged 90% but my worst section was Navigation. Study your map legends and symbols. You don't have to memorize everything but know what's there to look up if you need it. The exam chart has a legend and, if it's in french, turn it over. :p Also, make sure you can read and decode all the CFS info. Planning a cross-country should be cake by the time you write. Apparently I missed stuff decoding METARs and TAFs too.

Definately study FTGU too but the above stuff is what caught me. Good Luck!!

PS: I did the exam using the E6B but I practiced with it, lots. Maybe there was a calculator available but they didn't offer and I didn't ask.

[boogs82]

If you have a flight calculator use that. It's a life saver. I recently wrote and passed as well. For some reason decoding metar and taf was on my list of things to review as well. Which I found odd because I'm comfortable with them. Navigation and Met we're my strong points and I'm thinking nav only because of the flight calculator.

As for actually writing the exam.... RTFQ!!!

Transport Canada, like any other government entity, has stuff written by university students for university students. The questions will have a correct answer, a more correct answer, and two that may fit the question. This is where people can get choked up. There's three hours to write and it's plenty of time. What seemed to work for me is I'd read the question then read it again. Then is try to answer it without the options then check to see if the answer I came up with matched what was presented. In most cases it was. The other thing that worked for me was to write down the questions I had difficulty with and go back to them after. Figure out how many wrong answers you're allowed per section and try not to have more questions to be answered again than that minimum. It helps with your comfort level to know how many you're concerned about and know that it's not anywhere near anything that would cause you to fail. In fact it helps make the rest of the exam more stressful. It also might help you see something you missed when you go back and RTFQ. The final piece of advice I can give is that if you decide to review your questions before hitting submit, don't change anything you were hesitant on unless its brutally obvious that you were wrong the first time. More often than not your first answer is the correct answer.

Good luck and have fun with it!

[jump154]

It's amazing how many times the answer to a question is in a following question, if you look hard enought and think about things a little. Not sure, move on and see if the answer comes up.

[dirtysidedown]

Party. You all are way to helpful, I am reading through the MET portion of the FTGU and it is making my eyes go squirly with all that information. I am hoping that hte Air Command Weather Manual will help with making things more clear but there is a lot of information coming my way. I am excited yet have a respectful fear of both the written and practical.

I know that if i just do as trained and learned i'll come out alive.

[dirtysidedown]

PPL Flight Exam : Check!
PPL Written Exam : Next....

[boogs82]

Congrats! How many hours did it take you to get to flight standard? Where are you out of?

[dirtysidedown]

Thanks boogs...

I am out of CYOW and my hours were 46.8 dual and 11.8 solo.

[Rookie50]

Congrads. Now the learning begins. After you pass the written -- plan and fly a good 300 mile trip. Take someone along if you wish -- not an instructor but a slightly more seasoned pilot -- and actually not even necessary.

What I did is incremental trips to build experience -- 50 miles, then 150, then 300, and ultimately a 600 mile then 1200 ( us southwest). I learned an unbelievable amount from doing this -- getting far from home.

[Beefitarian]

There's lots of guys doing tests lately. Good to see androo.

[dirtysidedown]

There's lots of guys doing tests lately. Good to see androo.

Thanks Beef.

[dirtysidedown]

PPL Exam : Check
PPL Written : Check

Waiting for my booklet.

[xysn]

Waiting for my booklet.

It was 90 days minus a week before I got mine so don't hold your breath. However once I got it I oohed and aahed over it like it was the One Ring.

[New_PIC]

PPL Exam : Check
PPL Written : Check

Waiting for my booklet.

Ditto

My flight school suggested that I get them to check into it again if my 90 days was running out with no booklet yet. Good Luck!

[mgm]

I just finished today too, concluding with my long cross country solo (100 miles, so not really that "long"). Did the written a while back and the practical about a month ago. Woohoo, time to check out that thread on "what next after PPL" and find some reasonably priced rental options in the Calgary area.

Congrats to anyone just finished, and good luck to anyone taking tests.

[dirtysidedown]

Ditto

My flight school suggested that I get them to check into it again if my 90 days was running out with no booklet yet. Good Luck!

I was told if i dont hear or see my book within 75 days, i call the authorized person who signed my papers.

Congrats to anyone just finished, and good luck to anyone taking tests.

I second this, probably a very stressful time but exhilerating once you've gotten past this hurdle.

[Shiny Side Up]

I was told if i dont hear or see my book within 75 days, i call the authorized person who signed my papers.

I'm almost certain if you call TC and hassle them before your regulation waiting for your license period is up, that someone goes and puts yours at the bottom of the pile. Yes call your AP first, and only call TC if they don't take action for you. Either way, it serves nothing to get into the TC licensing officer, you can shortly find your application "lost" or "bounced" on some sort of technicality.

[Colonel Sanders]

I wait until the 90 days is up before stirring the pot
to avoid that problem. After the temporary endorsement
has expired, and TC hasn't done anything - except
cash the cheque - they have obviously dropped the ball.

I just had a night rating I signed off 5 months ago,
magically (and quietly) appear after I emailed the
CASO thingie.

When was the last time you saw someone charged
with flying after their temporary endorsement expired
because TC couldn't be bothered to send out the paper?

[Shiny Side Up]

I know of every piece of paper I send to TC, I keep things in duplicate, and when I sense trouble, triplicate. For some reason one of my latest applicants decided he was going to jump the queue, and against my advice decided to use his "I get things done persona" to make a strong impression and motivate them. Presto! This PTR is missing its ground school, send another one...

[erics2b]

To be fair, threatening to file a CAIRS against them seems to get them to be productive.

[Colonel Sanders]

They liked me. They're going to love you.

When was the last time you saw someone charged
with flying after their temporary endorsement expired
because TC couldn't be bothered to send out the paper?

Let's say TC, despite pestering, fails to send out
documents as they are supposed to, and you
keep flying.

Enforcement charges you with flying without the
required pilot licence. No problem.

You go to the Tribunal. You tell the "member" that
you admit technical guilt, which was actually caused
by TC not doing it's job to their terms, and you propose
a reasonable penalty for the situation which is negative $10.

[LousyFisherman]

They liked me. They're going to love you.
Let's say TC, despite pestering, fails to send out
documents as they are supposed to

You go get an aviation lawyers advice.

, and you keep flying.
Enforcement charges you with flying without the required pilot licence.....

You go get an aviation lawyers advice.

You go to the Tribunal. You tell the "member"

whatever your lawyer says
Then you dream about

admitting technical guilt, which was actually caused
by TC not doing it's job to their terms, and you propose
a reasonable penalty for the situation which is negative $10.

If you are going to commit civil disobedience as a protest do it properly!

FTFY

LF