WEEK 14: MASS & BALANCE AND MOD1 RESULTS #15

Airline Prep

Trying to prevent this....

This week has been a relatively easy week. We only had two days of teaching which was spent on mass and balance. This was enough time to cover the whole subject which means that's two down, five to go (only 6 weeks of teaching). Mass and balance doesn't seem to be too daunting once you learn the method. There is a lot of maths involved but the actual maths isn't particularly taxing. The hardest part is trying to interpret what the question is actually asking for. There are a few charts, graphs and tables which look quite scary at first but I think spending a couple of days going over it should be sufficient time to get it more or less cracked. Then it's just a matter of chipping away at it to keep it fresh. A lot of it is definitely relevant to what we are going to be doing in the future by calculating center of gravity positions, how much mass to transfer from one part of the aircraft to another etc.

 

a scary of example of incorrect loading

New Lanyard. Very exciting!

We also received our results for module 1 this week which was a very nerve-racking period. We heard rumors that oxford had received their results and were therefore very anxious to find out ours. None of us had had an email but luckily the chief ground school instructor was taking us and we persuaded him to tell us our results immediately. There was a lot of tension in the air. We had to wait together in the class room and were called out one by one to go out and receive the results. It felt like a very long walk from the class room across the hall and my heart was beating very fast indeed. To my delight I saw that I had passed all 7 exams with a 90% average, which was 5% better than the goal I set myself, so as you can imagine I am absolutely over the moon. Goes to show that hard work pays off! I will just need to repeat the process in a few weeks time and then it's off to New Zealand!

Out of the 20 people in the class I think 9 passed all first time and the rest only have one or two retakes to do in June, which isn't too bad. My housemate, Luke did the best with 7 passes at an average of 97%. ABSOLUTE MACHINE!

MODULE 1 RESULTS:

PRINCIPLES OF FLIGHT: 84%
AIRCRAFT GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: 83%
INSTRUMENTS: 96%
METEOROLOGY: 89%
AIR LAW: 84%
VFR COMMUNICATION: 95%
IFR COMMUNICATION: 100%

AVERAGE: 90%

Results Sheet

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