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Old February 17th 07, 04:57 AM posted to rec.aviation.ifr
Jim Macklin
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ACME SCHOOL of Aeronautics, Ft. Worth, Texas. At Meacham
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"Bob Moore" wrote in message
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| Robert M. Gary wrote
| I'll admit to having done that a few times. However, I
didn't need to
| take the test dozens of times to do it, the bank of
questions is
| available on the internet and ASA, etc provide all the
answers already
| (I know you know this). It doesn't seem like there is
much benefit of
| taking a test over and over to memorize the questions
when the
| questions are available on the internet.
|
| But that was not the case back in the '60s and '70s. The
FAA had IIRC,
| 4-5 individual tests with 40 questions each. There was a
company in Texas
| that hired people to take the tests just to memorize the
questions. I
| recall buying their booklet with all of the tests in it. I
debriefed all
| of my students taking the tests for any changes.
|
| No one ever worked out the problems, if you had test "A",
the answer to
| the flight planning problem was 2:47. :-)
|
| What was the name of that company and their test guide
?????
|
| Bob Moore