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potatoblues created the topic: [Debrief] CPL MET Passed - 82%!
Second time’s the charm! Did a lot more of the Bob Tait textbook this time, and read the book back to front and vice versa too many times.
I felt a lot more prepared this time round. 4 2 markers, 30 questions, 34 marks in total if i remember correctly.
TAFs were a lot trickier this time round. There were a couple of questions regarding the TAF that you had to take into account FM / BECMG validity periods (30 before, 60 after)
Also regarding TAF3s, whereby PROB30s don’t apply 3 hours from the beginning of a TAF3, so no alternate required
I’ve regurgitated a couple of notable questions that seem to be brand new questions rolled out by ASPEQ.
1. Where is the rotor zones in respect to the lenticular clouds?
- above the crest of the waves
- below the crest of the waves
- in the trough of the waves (answered this)
- something i don’t remember but definitely not right
2. another question was the difference between TAF / TAF3
- 3 hours for TAF3, 6 hours for TAF
- TAF3 supersedes TAF during TAF3’s validity period (answered this)
- two other options that i didn’t remember but wasn’t right
3. There was also another question regarding what happens when cumulus (?) clouds turned into stratocumulus
- subsistence inversion (answered this)
- surface inversion (?)
- cold front
- occluded front
4. in winter, which way do the winds blow in the Australian tropic east coast
- East
- West
- North Easternly
- South Easternly (answered this because winter = low = clockwise)
5. At an australian coastal aerodrome, at what time will a land breeze be strongest?
- just before sunrise (answered this)
- midnight
- midday
- after sunset
- always