Bob Tait
Bob Tait
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Time Travel TAF (CPL Perf Page 6.3)

Yes it looks like it needs changing to 2120 to 2208. Although I'm sure Dr Who would have seen a couple like that in his time!! Thanks for that one...

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Thanks Bob & Richard

What a fantastic result for home study. Congratulations BB, you make us all proud, Now enjoy your flying. Unfortunately we do not have anything t...

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Thanks Everyone

Megzy That's simply wonderful news! I've never met you in person but it seems you are an old friend. We have followed your determined path throug...

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Compass Errors

There isn't a definite number of degrees because the angle of dip of the earth's field varies greatly with latitude. For example you would need to al...

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Compass Errors

Actually the different hemispheres are not a problem because the compass needle is suspended from above as in the first diagram. That means the the n...

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Compass Errors

Maybe this will help also. The compass needle actually stays fixed with the north pole pointing to the north. As the aircraft turns onto various hea...

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Compass Errors

The 'hevy' end is the end with more mass under the pivot. Coloured orange in the figure. It is the north pole of the magnet and has 'S' painted on i...

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Compass Errors

The compass needle attempts to align itself with the local direction of the earth's field. Because it is suspended from above [like a picture frame],...

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Lighting

The sample questions that are published on the CASA web site are at least 13 years old and I am certain they haven't been revised since they were firs...

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times cyber exam #4 another question

That's a good question. I don't know of any hard and fast rule saying which rated coverage to use if the signal has arrived at the aircraft over wate...

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refresher in MET

If the stratus cloud was described as 'nimbo stratus' it would have bigger droplets than a small cumulus. Any cloud with 'nimbo' or 'nimbus'' in its ...

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timed cyber exam #4

The question is asking for the tolerance area, the tolerance area does include the 5 nm buffer so the answer would have to be 15.3nm.

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Lighting

That's a very old question bank. L1 was once used to indicate portable light ing and L2 was used to indicate low intensity runway lightning. CASA st...

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Minimum Fuel - includes VR and FR? Page 5.40

This exercise asks a two-part question. The two parts are unrelated. Firstly it asks you to find minimum ballast fuel to add to put the aircraft wit...

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part 7 "General Questions"

34. The answer is [b] in my copy. 53. You are correct. It is 8 hours. It used to be 3 hours when that question was written but it looks like it...

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