PPL ground school - how much do you remember?

[DeflectionShot]

I'm doing the CPL ground school and realized how much I'd forgotten from my PPL ground school. Wondering how much you guys remember? What subjects did you have the most trouble with? What did you think was the most important to know after all these years (I'm speaking from a non-pro's POV of course)??? I would say the practical side of weather remains the most retained part for me, and the basics of navigation. Least well remembered, air law. Probably the most neglected part of the PPL GS is engines....

[ScudRunner-d95]

Shoot I would probably fail my PSTAR the training world is much different from the real world flying.


I think I blew the commercial met section and had to redo it, honestly it was my weak area and I knew it. I then buckled down and obviously focused on it and wasn't that hard.


Back in my day I actually had to plot fronts and such on paper with a pencil! darn kids these days with GFA and their rock and roll music on XM

[David MacRay]

16 views later only Scud remembers enough to comment so far.

I remember talking about icing and drawing a skull and bones beside a note I made, along the lines of "ice in a 172 = death."

[Slick Goodlin]

With the amount of time I remember having to spend on light signals I honestly thought my radios would have been a lot shittier than they've been so far.

[DeflectionShot]

[quote]With the amount of time I remember having to spend on light signals I honestly thought my radios would have been a lot shittier than they've been so far.[/quote]

pffftt easy peasy...flashing red light means cleared for take off....all you need to know.

[Liquid Charlie]

Strangely enough I know exactly what I forgot about my private ground school -- nothing at all because I didn't do one. I was self taught. Never learned vector diagrams, just learned to use a Jeppesen wiz wheel. The Dalton style I couldn't fit into my pocket -- haha -- jepp was cutting edge and TC just allowed them into the exam room -- circa 1963 -- in fact I can't recall much commercial ground school as well and I know my ATP exams were all self study -- not sure if that would cut it today and I know I would be hard pressed to pass any exam without some serious study. When I have time with my own name in the mornings I suspect it would be like starting all over. Thanking the great cabo wabo god for muscle memory -- Lmfaooooooo 

[Chuck Ellsworth]

I would fail a PPL written test today.


Especially one of those goofy T.C. exams with trick questions and answers.

[dirtdr]

Yup. The biggest thing I remember is "What is the MOST CORRECT answer"


After helping my two teenagers through their written test for a learners license, I can tell that those tests were written with similar purpose... to test reading comprehension - not actual knowledge.

[Colonel]

If you ever take an FAA written (computer) exam
you won't believe the difference.  Much simpler
language.

Thought to ponder:  people who's mother tongue
is English struggle mightily to comprehend TC
written exams.  Ever wonder how foreign students,
who struggle with a few phrases on the radio,
[i]ever[/i] pass the complicated written tests?

Let's just say they have some assistance, and
everyone knows it, and everyone is cool with it.