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donaho(at)csrlink.net
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 Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 5:28 am Post subject: 42 Practical test standards |
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Pat and all, I was tested on 42 standards during the oral segment of the
test. Airspace was only one standard that I was required to know and
understand. I was told that I must score 100% on the oral part of the test,
that one wrong answer would fail me. ( I don`t know if that is an FAA rule
or a rule that my examiner developed on his own, but that was the gun I was
under.) While I felt I knew most of the answers, I was not going to risk a
failure by giving a wrong answer. So I referred to the FARS. better safe
than sorry!
I studied more for this test then any test in my entire life, including my
college days. The Federal Aviation Regulations/ Aeronautical Information
Manual has 1004 pages of information in it. How can any human being be
expected to commit that much information to memory? "Easement of the exam
standards" I don`t know because this is the only FAA rating test I have
ever taken. Flying is a hobby for me, not a vocation. On that premise, I
feel this test was difficult enough, and I learned plenty in the process.
Did I learn everything contained in the FARS, hardly.
Pat, when you have time, would you please post a brief review of the test
you took. that you are comparing to the S.P. test, I would be interested in
the differences.
P.S. I love my FSII, however I took the flight test in a Skyboy. What an
aircraft that is! There might be something good behind the doors opened by
getting the SP rating. Lanny Fetterman FSII N598LF
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pj.ladd(at)btinternet.com
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| Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 8:33 am Post subject: 42 Practical test standards |
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Pat, when you have time, would you please post a brief review of the test
you took. that you are comparing to the S.P. test, I would be interested in
the differences.>>
Hi Lanny,
I was not `having a go`,or comparing your test with anything which we have
here and I respect you for undertaking such a task, I was referring to the
general dumbing down process we have here. I know that when I took exams
either at or just after leaving school (we are talking the forties here) it
was expected that the examinee produced an answer to a question from his
memory. Later this changed to questions to which the examinee could choose
from 3 or more supplied answers. With a one in three chance of being right
even if you had never studied the subject student passes increased.
Reflecting great credit on the teachers, who, surprise, surprise, had
pushed for the change.
Being able to look up the answers during an exam seemed on the face of it
just another step in the watering down process.
In the UK it is government policy that everyone should be able to go to
University. They built Universities and then had to fill them so they
lowered the standards. They deny this of course but that is what most people
believe. Consequently instead of Universities taking the educated cream of
the crop and educating them further, free, which I believe should be the
way, they now take many who do not have the ability or the application to
benefit from the opportunity and make them pay. Many leave before completion
of their courses and many take soft options like media studies, social
studies and the like and finish up with a degree as a social worker. Lord
help us. Engineers, chemists, science based courses are way down the list.
The tests here for an ultralight license are pretty much the same as for a
PPL. A flying test, meteorology, air law, etc.Its all a long time ago and
like the car drivers test which I took at 18, I would not like to have to do
it again.. A radio license is an option and you are illegal if you operate
one (even a hand held) without having passed the test
Cheers
Pat.
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