FAA Knowledge test

"Saryon" wrote in message
...
I can see your point, but IMO since area forcasts themselves say
things like:

OH LE
NRN HLF OH LE ... SCT blah
SWRN QRT OH blah
CHIC FA
ND SD NE KS blah

you do kind of have to have some basic knowledge of US Geography to
know the boundaries of the areas they are referring to, even when
comparing them to the depiction charts....

On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 15:22:31 -0600, "Barney Rubble"
wrote:

But the thing is you are not required to display a knowledge of US
geography
to sit the knowledge test. Nowhere does this requirement exist, so why
not
just say what if the ceiling in the weather depiction chart area 3? IMO
these geography based questions are unfair. I also got the same question
wrong on my knoweldge, and filed a complaint. Still waiting to hear back
though.


Thing is with only the likelihood of only one or two questions coming up
then it really a question of playing the percentage game.

Remembering back to the test I did I had two questions on aileron positions
in quartering winds.

The first involved a quartering head wind and the second involved a
quartering tailwind with a high wing tricycle airplane. That's no problem
as it is about something you do.

The geography is less practical. Frankly Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri
and some of those other mid continent States are a complete mystery.

Colorado, Utah, Arizona, Nevada and California are OK as are Alaska and
Hawaii and Florida.

I reckon I could place Georgia and New York and the Carolinas plus or minus
a state or two.

Mind you I can do every country in Europe all the way to the Urals and most
of Africa.

One question though, one the car license plates each state tends to have
some state slogan like
The Sunshine state, The Liberty State, etc, etc, out of interest which state
would claim the slogan " The Redneck State"?