Wednesday 19 January 2011

Ground School

As part of PPL training I have to pass 7 written ground exams.  The subjects being:

• Air Law (Must be passed before doing first solo flight).
• Human Performance and Limitations
• Meteorology
• Navigation
• Flight Performance and Planning
• Aircraft General and Principles of Flight
• Radio Telephony

I just got off ebay this week the books I need to study.  They are a bit more in depth than the lessons I used to have in Nav and Principles of Flight when I was an Air Cadet!

No doubt if you know me I will be 'bearding' you soon with facts about static preasure increases and secondary effects of the control surfaces. You have been warned!
Posted by JJ72 at 12:41

5 comments:

  1. Anonymous7 March 2011 at 15:27

    Hi,

    Just be careful when you get the books from eBay that you've got the latest versions. This is particularly important for the Air Law exam.

    Which series of books have you gone for?

    Andy

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  2. JJ727 March 2011 at 15:39

    Hi Andy,

    Thanks for your comment. I was aware of this and spent a bit of time searching for as up-to-date books offset against price and ended up settling for a set of edition 6 for £20. I will get the latest edition of the Air Law in the near future.

    Cheers,

    Jeff

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  3. Anonymous7 March 2011 at 15:50

    That's good. Can't go wrong at that price, and it's only likely to be Air Law that changes on a regular basis I'd have thought.

    Which set did you go for? Thom? AFE? OAT?

    On my first attempt I read through the Thom books, and found them heavy going. I had much better luck with the AFE ones second time round.

    Andy

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  4. JJ7221 March 2011 at 18:28

    I am using the Thom books. At the moment I'm just flicking through them all. They seem to compliment each other quite well. For example I read a lesson in book one then read a chapter in the technical manual to understand the science behind it all.

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  5. Andy Hawkins22 March 2011 at 11:37

    Ah ok. Good luck with the exams then. As I said in my previous comment, for some reason I just didn't really get on with the Thom books.

    Andy

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