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Sorry fellow students - just having a vent.

I like practical navigation. I’m losing the will to live with the nav exam revision.

Frankly, I struggle to see the relevance of knowing that GNSS transmits on the UHF frequency. It just seems like a stupid question for the sake of it. Happy to be educated otherwise so that it might help me out. At least writing this may have helped that piece of useless info stick.

Similarly, not sure why I need to understand something about putting a cone on the world then unwrapping it. A cartographer has kindly done this for all of us already.

There are others too numerous to mention that I just don’t get.

I know it’s a process. It’s just taking me too long. 6 weeks to get the time to read through all 348 EasyPPL slides. Some of the tests have been OK. Now done 3 practice exams. 50%, 65%, 60%. Got work to do. The ‘normal’ nav planning bits I’m ok with. Mind gets a bit blown with the multiple logic questions needing pressure altitude, temperature altitude, TAS, CAS etc. Reminds me of the old maths questions… 2 trains leave London and Edinburgh at the same time. If one stops at a signal for 13 minutes etc. etc.

I think the whizz wheel is an unbelievable bit of kit - I just feel like an octogenarian (no offence to anyone) trying to program a VHS video recorder.

Rant over. Time to call it a night.