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Scheduled to take the IFR Written exam tomorrow. Not gonna lie, really nervous about it.
Any advice?
 
farmerbrake said:
Scheduled to take the IFR Written exam tomorrow. Not gonna lie, really nervous about it.
Any advice?
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Do (or hopefully you did) lots of practice tests. The actual exam is essentially like the practice exams and scores on the practice exams are usually a very good indicator of how one will do.
 
rocketflyer84 said:
Do (or hopefully you did) lots of practice tests. The actual exam is essentially like the practice exams and scores on the practice exams are usually a very good indicator of how one will do.
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Been doing a lot on sporty's since that's where i got my endorsement.

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farmerbrake said:
Been doing a lot on sporty's since that's where i got my endorsement.

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In that case you should be fine. Just make sure you read the questions carefully as it is easy to get tripped up on wording in the question or an answer. Relax and take your time.

Use the "Mark" feature on the testing software to skip harder questions. Get all the easy ones out of the way and then go back later and work on the trickier ones.
 
Be careful about going back to change answers. Likely you had it right the first time.

Impress the proctor by bringing your metal landing calculator and offer to demonstrate its use.

Get to know what is in the legends and descriptions part of the supplement. Many answers to questions are there, making it almost open book.

You may encounter 65 questions instead of the normal 60. These extra ones are "new and improved" questions that the FAA may add too the exam at some future date. Getting those wrong won't count against you. But, unfortunately, getting them right won't improve your score.

Rubber boots plus muddy hole equals muddy boots. Become one with the ADF.

Once you are handed your test results with the official emboss, never lose it.
 
When I took mine I was so nervous about it I almost turned around mile from testing station and cancelled. Drove on there and figured, oh well if I don't pass guess I can take it again. When I came out of test and he checked it he asked me how I studied. I said oh read all the books about 3 times and spent about 100 hrs trying to remember everything. He said, I figured. You missed one! Couldn't hardly believe it. The one I missed was one I changed answer on. Had right answer first time.
 
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Relax ,you did the time ,you should be fine.Good luck.
 
AggieMike88 said:
Impress the proctor by bringing your metal landing calculator and offer to demonstrate its use.

Get to know what is in the legends and descriptions part of the supplement. Many answers to questions are there, making it almost open book.

Become one with the ADF.
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It's so stupid to me how half of the stuff we only use on the written test and not in real life.

We have an ADF in the plane but I sure wouldn't trust it to shoot an approach unless both vor receivers AND GPS took a crap on me. And if they did I think my number must be up.

I thought that there were a lot of answers to the questions in the legends, so I'll probably be referring to that a lot.

Thanks for all the helpful advice guys and for the good laugh haha.


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There aren't any ADF questions on the instrument written anymore.

Beware old farts with out of date tips.
 
farmerbrake said:
It's so stupid to me how half of the stuff we only use on the written test and not in real life.

We have an ADF in the plane but I sure wouldn't trust it to shoot an approach unless both vor receivers AND GPS took a crap on me. And if they did I think my number must be up.
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Lots of good reason to dis the ADF these days...but they have their place. I learned to fly NDB approaches with the ADF (no overlay - a GPS overlay would have made it too easy). The thing I found most frustrating was lack of maintenance and monitoring of the beacons.

Some airports only had a NDB approach so all the fancy radio nav was out the window. In some cases you'd have to turn off the airway in the general direction of the beacon and hope you'd pick it up. Sort of a weird way to navigate and sometimes you'd have to get a little creative but it mostly worked. Of course every now and then somebody screws up and the NDB gets blamed.

NDBs are still in use outside the US and some folks have built pretty solid systems to use them. Can't say it's a bad exercise to learn NDB approaches. Ya gotta do something for 40 hours under the hood and that last 10 hours gets real boring.
 
farmerbrake said:
It's so stupid to me how half of the stuff we only use on the written test and not in real life.

We have an ADF in the plane but I sure wouldn't trust it to shoot an approach unless both vor receivers AND GPS took a crap on me. And if they did I think my number must be up.

I thought that there were a lot of answers to the questions in the legends, so I'll probably be referring to that a lot.

Thanks for all the helpful advice guys and for the good laugh haha.


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The charts in the supplements are not printed to the same scale as the charts you use in real life. As a result, the scale on your plotter does not work. Be sure to use the scale at the bottom of the chart, not your plotter, or your distances will be all wrong.
 
PPC1052 said:
The charts in the supplements are not printed to the same scale as the charts you use in real life. As a result, the scale on your plotter does not work. Be sure to use the scale at the bottom of the chart, not your plotter, or your distances will be all wrong.
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Fortunately, there are not many questions that rely on plotter use.
 
I took mine about a month ago. It wasn't bad, but there were a good number of questions I hadn't seen before. Fortunately most of them were approach related and the plates were there in the updated supplement book.

As long as you've done your due diligence and practiced/studied, you'll be fine.
 
Well I passed! Not quite as good as I would have liked, but still passed. 80%

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farmerbrake said:
Well I passed! Not quite as good as I would have liked, but still passed. 80%

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Congrats!
80% means you over studied by 10%
 
Passing is passing. No point in eating brain cells. It'll all come back around in the oral.

Congrats. Go get the flying done and don't take the stupid written three times like I did. :)
 
farmerbrake said:
Need 5 hrs of xc and 5 of sim. Instrument yet.
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Can't one or two flights cover both requirements simultaneously? Do the XC under simulated conditions, some approaches at either end.... do the hokey pokey...turn yourself about.
 
AggieMike88 said:
Can't one or two flights cover both requirements simultaneously? Do the XC under simulated conditions, some approaches at either end.... do the hokey pokey...turn yourself about.
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They could. But I'll need the hours anyway so I think I might stretch them out.
 
Well, head this way and 6PC, TexasAg93, and I will take you out for dinner....

We'll just make you order from the menu with your view limiting device on.
 
AggieMike88 said:
Well, head this way and 6PC, TexasAg93, and I will take you out for dinner....

We'll just make you order from the menu with your view limiting device on.
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Thanks for the offer, but TX is a pretty good stretch from MD for me right now. I will make it to a POA fly in sometime though!

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So any ADF questions at all ? Stupid kings course still pops up with them
 
I think they have been removed.

I took the written about 3 weeks ago and no ADF questions showed up.
 
muddy00 said:
So any ADF questions at all ? Stupid kings course still pops up with them
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I didn't see any.
Surprisingly I also didn't see any holding questions either! I realize there are a lot of question in the 'bank' but thought for sure I would get at least one.
 
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