Good luck with the Nav study and don't hesitate to post here if you have any questions. Speaking of which I'm having a think about your met question - I'll post over on that forum after I've checked it out a bit more. Bob will give a definitive answer soon I would imagine.

Have started already =) Sorry my question is a bit wishy washy, I couldn't remember it exactly, but I hope you catch my drift.

Cheers

Just got home from my AGK exam, got 83% but I must say I'm still fairly disappointed with that. This was the one subject so far that I knew I would nail. I must kick myself though for losing out on 2 marks having to do with the COLOUR OF AVGAS!! Other KDR items were Pitot tube blockage, abnormal engine instrument indications, fuel vaporisation, wastegate operation and boost pump operation. All of which I thought I had a good knowledge of, but alas, I am deficient in.

My lord CASA really need to spell and grammar check their exams, it's ludicrous!

Funny story, I barely even got to the exam today, the lower radiator hose on my car jimmied itself loose, spilling coolant and overheating. Then I had to run into Woolies and buy 2 big bottles of water (I know, but better than nothing) and threw them in then hooned off to ASL with about 10 mins to spare. Just as well I left an hour early.

Cheers

PS. btw how does CSYA = Aircraft General Knowledge? I thought I was in the wrong exam haha

G'day Ellzy!

Just saw your post. Congratulations on the pass and that despite the chaos of the drive! Well done mate.

Ok, so you might feel a bit disappointed but you shouldn't cane yourself. You passed and can move on to the next subjects.

You have undoubtedly brushed up on the stuff mentioned in your KDR and just think - you'll NEVER forget the colour of AVGAS now

As for the meaning of CSYA:

[C]ommercial: [SY]stems [A]eroplane ???

Richard,

Yeah you're right about that one mate. It's funny, I always seem to come up with ways to remember things like that. 100LL comes 'before', ie. lower than, 100/130. B comes before, ie. lower than, G in the alphabet. Put it together and waddya get? 100LL = Blue. 100/130 = Green.

Ahhhh if only I'd thought about that for a few seconds whilst studying =P

Next stop, Air Law!

Ellzy - you little beauty!!

What ever you say, that's a very good mark for CSYA, especially by home study. I've seen a lot of students get a lower mark than that even after a full-time course. Don't be shy to ask questions concerning Air Law. Congratulations.

Haha cheers Bob, gotta love the enthusiasm. Will let you know of ANY Air Law problems I come up against

Hi Bob and Rich,

I sat Performance again yesterday and failed again.. I got a worse mark than I did the first time! I seem to really be struggling with this one.

The ETP, PNR and floor loading questions I had trouble with last time I'm sure I nailed in the exam, so I've narrowed it down to the weight&balance/loading questions. Particularly calculating ballast. I'm sure I have no problem with calculating min fuel required or finding flight fuel available or whatever.. As these (w&b/l) questions represent a relatively large portion of the marks available, I can see why I'm missing out by a fair bit.

Good news is I have a whole month to study this subject as it's my last, rather than studying for 3 exams in that time. Bad news is I start CPL training on Monday and was supposed to have all theory out of the way. Any chance you can throw a few questions at me that aren't in the book?

Cheers all!

Ah Ellzy that's a blow. Sorry to hear it. I'm glad that you are still at it like a bull terrier though: don't give up. Having a month to study is good. Maybe take a couple of days off from it and enjoy your flying training to start with.

What did your KDR say? Did it confirm the subject areas you suspected in your post?

> Any chance you can throw a few questions at me that aren't in the book?
Here's something that might help you more: why not drum up a couple of questions yourself in the areas that are problematic and then try and solve them in explained steps yourself - as if you were teaching someone how to do it.

Then, if you want to, post your questions and your worked answers to the CPL-PERF forum and let us all take a look and peer-review your working. I reckon any students studying CPL-Perf at the moment would benefit from this as well. You're undoubtedly not the only one having a few problems with this part of the curriculum.

Who knows, it might kick off a new "Brain Burner of the Week" segment

As for extra questions, we're still working on the loading question bank for the online course at the moment. There are the cyberexams of course but you have been working with them already. If you need even more, Rob Avery has books of questions put together for different subjects available in pilot supply stores.

Good luck with your studies Ellzy and keep us in the loop. We'll help as much as we can.

Cheers,

Rich

Hi Rich,

Thats the embarrassing thing about it, I scored so low I need to revise the 'whole syllabus' again! Terrible..

Good idea about making my own questions, when I get right back into the study I'll do that and you guys can have a look. Might even throw a few easy ones in there that I think I know to actually confirm that I do know them.

Cheers!

Like my wife says, "Cheer up Charlie" .. Then I watched Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, one of my childhood fave's.. Made me feel a little better hahaaa