Blog – Exam Day Meteorology 15/03/2022
After several weeks of night classes, and practice exams, I booked the Meteorology exam, the fifth of six theory exams required for attaining your PPL (Private Pilots License) in NZ.
This exam covers a large list of subjects:
- Fundamentals of the atmosphere
- The atmosphere
- Atmospheric Pressure
- Temperature and Heat Exchange Processes
- Atmospheric Moisture
- Wind
- Stability of Air
- Local winds – New Zealand
- Inversions
- Cloud
- Precipitation
- Visibility
- Fog
- Fronts and Depressions
- Thunderstorms
- Icing
- Turbulence
- New Zealand Meteorology
- Domestic Meteorological Services for Aviation
If you are feeling keen, the entire Syllabus can be found at https://www.aviation.govt.nz/assets/publications/pilot-syllabus-assistance-archive/Subject-8-PPL-Meteorology.pdf
I did warn you it was huge! Thanks for sticking with me.
I booked this exam at my local Aspeq Examination Centre for Tuesday 15 March.
This exam was a 35 question 70 minute multi-choice online exam.
For this exam I studied long and hard as fellow flyers at the Aero club had said that they had “only just scraped thru” and had some real stinkers of questions.
I was fairly confident going into this one as I had really hammered the test exams I found online.
The exam itself was “fair” in that I got only 1 question where I had no idea of the process to use. However I took an educated guess.
Some questions were designed to really test your knowledge. I used logic and safety first as my mantra on the harder questions. Like all previous exams, I stayed until 1 min from the end going over and over my answers. I had to wait 24hrs for the results to come up on my profile but I was pleased to pass with a nice 86%. After checking on the sections in which I didn’t do well, I was only slightly off on the questions I tagged.
Great to get this fifth exam done. Last cab off the rank is “Air Law”. That should be riveting eh?
Until next time….
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Blog – Exam Day – Meteorology 15/03/2022