Friday 12 February 2010

Night Off!

The end of another very long week at OAA, and I’m treating myself to an evening 100% free of work. Has been a long time since I can say I’ve done that! However, I’ll be straight back in to my books in the morning as it’s School Finals week next week and I still have a long way to go with revision.

We’ve managed to finish most of the subjects this week, so that’s Gas Turbines, Human Performance, Meteorology, Communications, AC Electrics, Radio Propagation, Flight Instruments, Aircraft Systems, Autoflight, and Warning & Recording out of the way! Phew! All that remains now is a couple of hours of Engine Instruments and the last few chapters of Principles of Flight, plus a bit of revision of other subjects. We’ve realised just how far behind our course is, as the last couple of weeks have been a rush as we try to cram in all the information that we’re behind on. It turns out that owing to a bit of dodgy scheduling around Christmas we started a lot of topics much later than we should have, and basically we’ve just been rushing to catch up. It hasn’t been much fun but it is great to finally see the finish line.

So, the week ahead consists of two day of classes on Monday & Tuesday, followed by a day and a half of exams and then feedback at the end of the week. We are required to achieve 65% in our School Final exams for them to put us forward for the JAAs, which take place w/c 1st March. The exams we’ll be sitting this week are:

  • Principles of Flight
  • Meteorology
  • Human Performance
  • Instrumentation
  • Aircraft Systems
  • VFR Communications
  • IFR Communications

These are the same exams and in the same format as the JAA exams, so will also prove as a good trial run for the real things!

It has been a really tough few months but the end is in sight now and I’m very much looking forward to getting through these and enjoying a couple of weeks off with no revision to haunt me!

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