The last two weeks have been extremely busy! (unsurprisingly)
We had Aircraft General Knowledge on Monday where we did AC electrics for most the day and started Piston Engine's. Electrics seemed to make sense as we went through it in the lessons but when I attempted questions on it later all the knowledge I thought I had went out the window! No wonder they call it "electrickery".
The first week we had four days of Aircraft General Knowledge. There was so much information to take on board in such a short period of time. However, spending about 4 hours each evening revising the topics learned during the day helps for it to sink in a bit more. The CBT days and weekends (practically the same thing) are great for learning the topics properly and catching up on the CBT. I feel reasonably confident with AGK now which is good news.
This week we had Principles of Flight. The first day was just the basics of lift, drag etc. There was so much to take on in a short period of time and at the end of the day I was feeling a little uncertain on it. Thankfully the next day we had a different instructor who just seemed to recap on what was taught the day before, really hammering in the fundamental points of Bernoulli's theorem and the equation of continuity etc and after a whole 2 days and evenings on it I felt pretty confident with it so that was good.
The pace picked up a lot the next day though and we started going into take off, climbing, landing, descending, range and endurance which had many equations, graphs and angles. I think everyone struggled with it so a day or two spent going over it should help a lot.
Today I had a CBT day (very much needed). I emailed the head of ground school to see if there was an instructor who had a spare hour or two to help me with electrics and he said the CP ahead of us were having an extra lesson on electrics. So Luke, DJ and myself went in at 9 am and it turns out they weren't doing electrics, so we found an empty class room and worked from 9 till 4. I spent the day question banking electrics and learning it as I went along from the descriptions given. The morning session was a slog! I was really struggling to wrap my brains around it but by the end of the day I was doing much better, getting 100% in my last test. I must have done close to 300 questions. I also did practice tests on all the AGK topics we've covered so far and I averaged over 92% which is good news indeed. So I'm very happy with myself this evening. Going to treat myself to an evening off, a movie and a proper meal.
I'm going to do the same thing for POF tomorrow and then on Sunday read ahead on engines for the remaining AGK lessons on Monday and Tuesday. Only 2 more lessons ever for AGK and POF. TIME FLYING BY (pardon the pun). I feel like I've learned so much already but at the same time not enough. Just got to keep the hard work up.
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| Airline Prep |
We had Aircraft General Knowledge on Monday where we did AC electrics for most the day and started Piston Engine's. Electrics seemed to make sense as we went through it in the lessons but when I attempted questions on it later all the knowledge I thought I had went out the window! No wonder they call it "electrickery".
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| Treating ourselves to a rare moment of TV (match of the day) - question bank still open though! |
The first week we had four days of Aircraft General Knowledge. There was so much information to take on board in such a short period of time. However, spending about 4 hours each evening revising the topics learned during the day helps for it to sink in a bit more. The CBT days and weekends (practically the same thing) are great for learning the topics properly and catching up on the CBT. I feel reasonably confident with AGK now which is good news.
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| A typical evening revising the days topics |
This week we had Principles of Flight. The first day was just the basics of lift, drag etc. There was so much to take on in a short period of time and at the end of the day I was feeling a little uncertain on it. Thankfully the next day we had a different instructor who just seemed to recap on what was taught the day before, really hammering in the fundamental points of Bernoulli's theorem and the equation of continuity etc and after a whole 2 days and evenings on it I felt pretty confident with it so that was good.
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| Enjoying a cup of tea in the garden when the sun came out for 10 minutes |
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| Our back garden in the sun |
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| The usual grim, wet view from my window |
The pace picked up a lot the next day though and we started going into take off, climbing, landing, descending, range and endurance which had many equations, graphs and angles. I think everyone struggled with it so a day or two spent going over it should help a lot.
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| I admit, this was serious procrastination |
Today I had a CBT day (very much needed). I emailed the head of ground school to see if there was an instructor who had a spare hour or two to help me with electrics and he said the CP ahead of us were having an extra lesson on electrics. So Luke, DJ and myself went in at 9 am and it turns out they weren't doing electrics, so we found an empty class room and worked from 9 till 4. I spent the day question banking electrics and learning it as I went along from the descriptions given. The morning session was a slog! I was really struggling to wrap my brains around it but by the end of the day I was doing much better, getting 100% in my last test. I must have done close to 300 questions. I also did practice tests on all the AGK topics we've covered so far and I averaged over 92% which is good news indeed. So I'm very happy with myself this evening. Going to treat myself to an evening off, a movie and a proper meal.
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| The canteen |
I'm going to do the same thing for POF tomorrow and then on Sunday read ahead on engines for the remaining AGK lessons on Monday and Tuesday. Only 2 more lessons ever for AGK and POF. TIME FLYING BY (pardon the pun). I feel like I've learned so much already but at the same time not enough. Just got to keep the hard work up.
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| The high standard of meal cooked on a day off |
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