Week 17: ATPL Ground School Week 17

A pretty busy week with every subject in full throttle.We have started in Flight Planning using the Jeppesen charts, a very new experience in contrast to the usual theory based learning. The frustrating feature about the charts is the size and the absence of colour. Our poor eyes got really strained finding the minute waypoints.

We thought the charts were bad, until we went into fuel flight planning with all the small numbers and crazy interpolations on the data sheets. Our brains were totally fried with the tedious aspects of Flight Planning.

Away from Nav, instruments was ok but Radio Aids is crazy with the amount of info we have to UPLOAD into our brains' data bank. Let's not talk about Meteorology, another memory intensive subject.

This coming week will be the first week where we have progress tests for all the subjects.

Monday - Radio Aids
Tuesday - Flight Planning + Meteorology
Thursdays - Instruments + HPL

Hell week we call it. It won't be easy, but we will take it as it comes.

A breather during lunch time

Eyesight killing charts

Crazy data which frustrates us

Sharing of knowledge, doggie style