FAA Test Questions

[cpthayes]

I have heard that the FAA no longer releases the test questions for their written exams. Is this true or is it a rumor?

[metro752]

They don't release the exact questions and answers anymore, so now guys can't just read every question and answer 700-750 for the PPL, and pass. Then again after reviewing that 2 times a day, every single question, you learn a lot....but not 100% why things are the way they are, hence the discontinuance*(woooord) of the release of test questions.


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[flyinggriffin]

Yeah, with all the test progams out there the passing score of 75 no longer was valid. A person should really score much higher at least in the 90s.

I didn't use any testing, just read the books and didn't see the questions until the test and scored an 88. Damm ADF questions did me in. I used the Gleim software to test for the instrument and only missed one question. You draw your own conclusions.

[wsieffert]

It seems the bank of over 700 questions are still available for download - http://afs600.faa.gov/srchFolder.asp...irmanknowledge .

Here is a couple of websites:

http://www.exams4pilots.org/
http://new.exams4pilots.org/

I aced the written sometime in Nov2003. I used many sources including the above to study plus the latest Gleim softcover. The biggest hurtle is having the detailed sectionals available to do the flightplanning, timing, direction answer and they are available in the Gleim.

W. Sieffert

[metro752]

I feel they didn't word the ALL of the ADF questions very well.

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[azflyboy]

AFAIK, the FAA releases example questions so that people like Jeppesen, King, and ASA can write guides that help prepare for the kind of questions on the test without actully giving away any answers.

[flyinggriffin]

Frankly the way they teach tracking the ADF is a mess. Perhaps MR. Spock could go round and add and subtract all those numbers in his head while shooting an NDB approach. I have trouble doing reciprocal headings in my head while flying.

The instrument test had a similar bunch of questions that basically were worded like this. "If you looked over and your flight instructor was bored to tears and had just dialed in both VORs where are you on the airway? The question had the flavor like you just suddenly woke up somwhere in the middle of an airway.

[flyinggriffin]

What they are not going to do is give out the updates. Also the order in which the answers appear I think will be switched around.

The computer I took my private written had a mouse that was very old and was about the size of a Jepp Chart book. I thought the harddrive was going to die everytime it accessed. No matter how well you do on the written, the DE always seems to find questions to test you.

[metro752]

The other night i was sitting up front in a 738, and I was messing with the FMC before they towed it to the hangar, and I couldnt remember the airway that would take you from DAG off the LOOP4, to GLD. So i made a flight from LAX-MDW, DAG direct LMN. Thanks PMDG for teaching me how to fly a 737-800 for only $70..................


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[rsdyrda]

>Thanks PMDG for teaching me how to fly a
>737-800 for only $70..................
>


when you fire up those engines and fly the flight to LA, then you can thank PMDG. alas, they will soon be sold (according to the numerous ATA pilots i've talked to).