NZFF

Hi there

At the school I am going too (yeah I'm going to school this year, no more homeschooling ) each student gets to pick something called an "inquiry" to do in time between classes, witch can be up to 2 hours at a time.

So I get to pick what I want to do in this time, I want to look in to physics and also start studying for my ppl theory stuff, witch are the following acording to CAC site:

    * Air law
    * Aircraft technical knowledge
    * Air navigation and flight planning
    * Human factors
    * Meteorology
    * Flight radio telephony (FRTO)

So, I haven't a clue excacly how to study this stuff and gain the knoldge required to pass the exams. I have 3 and a half years untill I can hold a ppl liscence so its a good opertunity to learn all this well!

I am trying to find out were I can find this information and how to go about learning it.

I have checked with my teacher (well at this school they are called "learning advisors") and he has said I am alowed to do it at school,, just gota find the information

So any help appreciated, i'm looking forward to learning this stuff, especialy "air law" sounds like an intelligent subject (hmm this will impress other students at school).

I see CAC has lectures about these subjects, so should I study and get an understanding of them then go along to the lectures?

Thanks
James

I dunno how CAC works at all, but what I did is bought the set of Private Pilot Textbooks, the ones here, from my Aero club.Then I just read through the FRTO book enough times till I had the courage to send in for my exam . However if I were you I'd go into CAC in person with your mum/dad and ask them about it face to face.

Those books are quite good, if you spend a bit of time learning the stuff from those you'll be at a massive advantage when you come to do your PPL.

Brilliant, I will try and get those books, they sound just like what I want

So ill study these then go to the aero club for lectures and stuff.

Thanks
James

I think the books cost about $220 if you buy the set (not including the Human factors book)

You don't really need a book to study Human Factors though, just a little bit of basic common sense.

If your doing your PPL, I would suggest, not doing the theory until you can start flying. You'll forget about things, or loose interest in just doing theory.

Just my opinion as I'm currently a month into my 2 year Flight Training course at Mainland Aviation College, and I've already done 2 exams so far.

PPL Navigation starts this week, and I'm dreading it lol

i'm looking forward to learning this stuff, especialy "air law" sounds like an intelligent subject (hmm this will impress other students at school).

Its not really... its basically just memorisation of a lot of legalese...

However, I really enjoyed Nav, that was fun coz you get to play with maps, rulers and the nav computer

Met was kinda interesting too... but thats probably because I enjoyed the 'challenge' of 'decoding' METARs and TAFs etc.

I attended a part-time study course at Ardmore Flying School... it ran for something like 8 weeks and was done on saturdays (all day)... They gave us a big ring-binder full of notes which we were encouraged to read up on during the read, we then covered the material in class and followed upwith Q&A and practical examples where appropriate. Once we'd covered all the material we began on practice exams etc and it all finished in doing the exams... I did them all (except GATK, which i had already done back at Massey) in one day

ps. I dont think that it was coincidence that I got 100% for Nav & 97% for Met, and only passed Law with 83%