FAA Knowledge test

Passed the Private pilot Knowledge test today. Been flying in the US on the
basis of my foreign licence for the last couple of years.

I decided that I ought to show willing and show I have the knowledge too.

Probably go the whole way next time in the US and do the three hours of
training before doing the flight test and hold the US PP certificate in my
own right rather than on the basis of the foreign licence.

Scored 97% which was OK the only real problems being a question on weather
over South Indiana.

Florida and California I know but South Indiana?
So I got that wrong. I will need to get the atlas out to work out where that
is. The other question that involves a place everyone's heard of but has no
idea where it is Kentucky, thankfully that did not turn up.

The other deficiency was on the purpose of the weather depiction chart

Dave

Congratulations!!! By the way,,,, I HATE those weather questions with those
8th generation Xerox maps... Geez, half the time it looks like their
weather maps in those FAA written exam books have a bad case of fleas, the
copy is so lousy.

Even still!!!! BIG CONGRATULATIONS!!!!

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Good Flights!

Cecil E. Chapman, Jr.
PP-ASEL

"We who fly do so for the love of flying.
We are alive in the air with this miracle
that lies in our hands and beneath our feet"

- Cecil Day Lewis-

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"Dave" wrote in message
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Passed the Private pilot Knowledge test today. Been flying in the US on
the
basis of my foreign licence for the last couple of years.

I decided that I ought to show willing and show I have the knowledge too.

Probably go the whole way next time in the US and do the three hours of
training before doing the flight test and hold the US PP certificate in my
own right rather than on the basis of the foreign licence.

Scored 97% which was OK the only real problems being a question on weather
over South Indiana.

Florida and California I know but South Indiana?
So I got that wrong. I will need to get the atlas out to work out where
that
is. The other question that involves a place everyone's heard of but has
no
idea where it is Kentucky, thankfully that did not turn up.

The other deficiency was on the purpose of the weather depiction chart

Dave

"Dave" wrote
Florida and California I know but South Indiana?
So I got that wrong. I will need to get the atlas out to work
out where that is. The other question that involves a place
everyone's heard of but has no idea where it is Kentucky,
thankfully that did not turn up.

Kentucky is the next state east of South Indiana. :-)

Bob Moore
Native Son of KY

"Robert Moore" wrote in message
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"Dave" wrote
Florida and California I know but South Indiana?
So I got that wrong. I will need to get the atlas out to work
out where that is. The other question that involves a place
everyone's heard of but has no idea where it is Kentucky,
thankfully that did not turn up.

Kentucky is the next state east of South Indiana. :-)

I will look it up

Dave
Native son of Yorkshire

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.

- Tim
"Dave" wrote in message
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"Robert Moore" wrote in message
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"Dave" wrote
Florida and California I know but South Indiana?
So I got that wrong. I will need to get the atlas out to work
out where that is. The other question that involves a place
everyone's heard of but has no idea where it is Kentucky,
thankfully that did not turn up.

Kentucky is the next state east of South Indiana. :-)

I will look it up

Dave
Native son of Yorkshire

But the thing is you are not required to display a knowledge of US geography
to sit the knowledge test. ....... IMO these geography based questions are unfair.

Gee, I should think any high-school graduate would know where the
various states are, especially with folks on the weather channel
reminding us day after day.

vince norris

"vincent p. norris" wrote in message
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But the thing is you are not required to display a knowledge of US
geography
to sit the knowledge test. ....... IMO these geography based questions
are unfair.

Gee, I should think any high-school graduate would know where the
various states are, especially with folks on the weather channel
reminding us day after day.

vince norris

Read the whole series of posts. We are talking England, you know that place
6 time zones east of Indiana?
--
Jim in NC

Gee, I should think any high-school graduate would know where the
various states are, especially with folks on the weather channel
reminding us day after day.

vince norris

Read the whole series of posts. We are talking England, you know that place
6 time zones east of Indiana?

Yeah, I've heard of England. In fact, I'm an anglophile. My paternal
grandmother was raised there.

Perhaps I didn't get all the posts. The first one I got was a
complaint aobut having to know the location of southern Indiana.

Then Bob Moore said it's just west of Kentucky.

That was the entire thread on my computer screen when I posted my
response.

vince norris.

"vincent p. norris" wrote:

The first one I got was a
complaint aobut having to know the location of southern Indiana.

That post also contained the line "Been flying in the US on the basis of my
foreign licence for the last couple of years."

That's your cue. You can't expect a foreigner to know where Indiana is.

George Patterson
You can dress a hog in a tuxedo, but he still wants to roll in the mud.

Why not? I'm one (when I'm in the US anyway) and I know
where Indiana is. If I didn't before I did the written (which actually
I did) I certainly would do afterwards! There's only 50 of them,
it isn't that hard.

John


"G.R. Patterson III" wrote in message
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"vincent p. norris" wrote:

The first one I got was a
complaint aobut having to know the location of southern Indiana.

That post also contained the line "Been flying in the US on the basis of
my
foreign licence for the last couple of years."

That's your cue. You can't expect a foreigner to know where Indiana is.

George Patterson
You can dress a hog in a tuxedo, but he still wants to roll in the
mud.