CPL reading material

Bob Moore wrote:

Unfortunately....Captain Davies excellent book has nothing to do with the Commercial Pilot Certificate. It is written more for the pilot who has already obtained an ATP certificate and is entering the big jet market for the first time.

Bob Moore


So by Dud logic, my reading Davies should make me very plausible
terrorist potential
More frantic calls to the FBI on the way )

But Bob, on a serious note, there seems to be something alarmingly
wrong with India's aviation teaching program. Read the following news
item from yesterday:

[Cite]
Of the thousands of aspirants who wrote the theory exams for a
commercial pilot's licence across the country in April, not a single
one appears to have cleared all five subjects. And barely 10% have
passed in two of the five subjects.
The results were declared by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation
(DGCA) on Thursday. Not a single Mumbai candidate has cleared all the
five subjects. Sources in Delhi said that only one student from the
capital has cleared all five subjects.
In Mumbai, 1,045 students registered for the exams but barely 50
managed to clear the air navigation subject, while about 120 got
through air regulation. Just about a dozen or so students managed to
clear air meteorology.
"The failure rate has never been this high. Until last year, at least
30-40% of the students who gave their CPL exams could clear it,''
said an aviation source.
[End cite]

Terrible isn't it?

Ramapriya

Terrible isn't it?

The CPL and ATPL exams given in Europe (Asia?) are MUCH more comprehensive
and difficult than are the corresponding knowledge tests given here in the
USofA.

I'm not sure that any of the USofA study books would prepare one for the
European exams.

Bob Moore

Bob Moore wrote:
Terrible isn't it?

The CPL and ATPL exams given in Europe (Asia?) are MUCH more comprehensive
and difficult than are the corresponding knowledge tests given here in the
USofA.

I'm not sure that any of the USofA study books would prepare one for the
European exams.

Bob Moore


Is it just me that thinks that had someone less senior written the
above, you'd have been swamped by a slew of chauvinistic vitriol by
now?

Ramapriya