7/4/2024 - Passed all PPL Theorectical Papers

Look, I write in my private Journal, then i transfer it over to this blog after a while,.

On this day I passed my last PPL Theorectical exam - flight Performance and Planning (Flight P&P), this concludes all 9 paper exams pre-requisites. What stands between me and a PPL license is still a collosal challenge. However all these challenges are surmountable, providing that I chip it away at a stead pace. The challenges are “Only” the practical Radio communications exam (more about that to be written i’m sure), 30 more hours of practical flight trainings and a few cross country solos (this is scary). Yes, all practical stuff from this point on.

Back to Flight P&P, this test took me the whole allocated 45 minutes to complete, an unusual one for me, not just for PPL exams, but exams thorought my life. I’m not the smartest, but in school I’m never known to use up my alloted time.

This test requires you to bring in an aviation navigational chart, ruler and compass flower. Other references such as landing or takeoff distance charts, fuel flow charts etc are supplied by the examiner.

For my questions I had 4 that required some calculation, its worth noting that these calculation took me longer to work out long hand. At home I used an excel spreasheet to quickly get interpolated and unit conversion answers, this may have contributed the length it took me to do each calculations.

In any case I now have completed all 9 paper exams, with this one giving me 91 points. Well happy.

The completion now gives 24 months window to complete my PPL. As it stands I have only completed roughly 25 hours or so, and haven’t mastered navigation yet. I hope now I can focus on completing this by the middle of the year, I do really hope I can fly at least late in the summer as a qualified pilot.