On 2008-02-17, wrote:
Many pilots (way too many) commit facts to memory to get past
the flight and written exams. It's rote learning, without the
understanding necessary to be safe. Exams tend to encourage that sort
of thing.

There should be more emphasis on the oral (in which the examiner can ask
any pertinent question to the rating sought) and less on writtens. Over
here, there is no oral but a whole battery of written tests. The US
system of a relatively trivial written, but also an oral test is better;
an examiner can tell far better if the student really understands the
material much better than automatically graded multiple choice.

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