SAMRA questions and study guide

[joujou98]

Hey everyone

I was very happy to find some informations on the SAMRA on here and I thought I would give some feedback as well. I wrote SAMRA 15 this morning. I used the Aerocourse workbook, Nizus (which was not too bad for SAMRA honestly), the Air Command Weather Manual, the AIP and the AIM.

Below are the notes I wrote down right after the exam, enjoy!

Weather radar
Scan method lower and middle parts first
Time to CP with all engines
New altitude NAT clearance received in CDA, what should you do? Follow it now or once entering the Gander Oceanic Airspace (via Datalink)
Decode metar and GFA
IFR Outlook and definition (less than 1000 AGL and or less than 3SM)
Raim alert threshold. (2, 1, 0.3)
LNaV cold weather approach slope (shallower)
Raim questions
TCAs detection of other aircraft if not equipped/ transp off etc...
Vertical clouds in center of low pressure area because of convergence (not because of frontal lift)
Calculate Specific ground range in NM/lbs
Vertical distance between pressure levels in cold/warm air less in cold
AIRMETS condition of issue
ADS B options on what it provides (not TCAS to Air traffic controller answer)
WAAS can’t remember question
LCL clouds on GFA (less than 25%)
Obtain pressure altitude set 29.92 on subscale
Decode SIGMET and PIREP (multiples)
What (rain, hail, virga and volcanic ashes) can be detected by ground weather radar, all except volcanic ashes
INS wording weird acceleration against time
Calculate fuel for IFR turbo jet
Ice pellets imply freezing rain aloft
No warm layer aloft in warm supercooled rain process
30 knots isotach closer than 90nm sufficient shear for CAT on low pressure side
relative humidity or dew point point spread: dew point gives better indication of moisture
Strong winds due to funnel winds in mouth of valley on coastal area (not sea breeze or Nocturnal jet stream)
Ice crystals grow if there are supercooled droplets in cloud
Warning/ cooling process without exchanging heat adiabatic
Stronger surface winds around ridges than troughs
Saturated air cools at DALR when subsiding
Microburst downdraft effect on angle of attack and lift
Relative humidity after air is condensating
Decode flight plan (time to alternate and fuel remaining once at destination)
VOLMET weather is current forecast and sigmets on designated frequ found in CFS
Temperature change westbound through trowal
Air moving faster behind cold front causing trowal
Winds around a QS front (winds parallel to the front or stronger on cold or warm side)
RNAV standalone or overlay: don’t require trad navaid to be functional, can monitor it but not mandatory
Multilateration based on SSR
PSR Target traffic info by ATC: range and azimuth only (no AS and ALt)
Vertical extent of icing when just below or well below freezing
Stratocumulus clouds south of shore with strong winds because of: mechanical turbulence
IFR mandatory routes weird question I didn’t know, picked the more logical one
Ground covered by clouds below a plane at FL220( careful because some clouds in the metar are at 25000!)
VV003: ceiling obscured at 300 feet, not BKN or whatever else was given
LLJ on GFA if below 6000 and more than 50 Knots

No other charts than GFAs (6), no radio aids or HF questions

Icing collection efficiency with thin wing and fast airspeed
Contours represent height of pressure levels in Dm on 250 Hpa charts
Lightning detection system behind mountains
Clouds evidence of jet streams, ragged and torn cirrus
Machmeter gives ratio of TAS to LSS
Warm air moves over very cold surface turbulent or not
Definition of tropopause (where temperature suddenly stops decreasing or starts increasing)
Radar altimeter failure affects GPWS

I hope this will help some of you out there!

[GtCreative]

Hey everyone

Hi i am first officer in Turkish Airlines in Turkey and i want to convert my licence to canadian Atpl.I am looking workbook for samra and saron.if you have them can you send to my e mail address ? gokhantongay@hotmail.com thank you.

[joujou98]

Hey

You can find them on the aerocourse website

[WWSGomes]

Hi guys, I did SAMRA 16 today, and it was terrible. I fail (which is normal for SAMRA 16, according to some comments here LOL). Does anyone know if, in the next time, I have a chance of doing SAMRA 16 again, or we don’t repeat the same exam?

[tsukubacpe]

Hi guys, I did SAMRA 16 today, and it was terrible. I fail (which is normal for SAMRA 16, according to some comments here LOL). Does anyone know if, in the next time, I have a chance of doing SAMRA 16 again, or we don’t repeat the same exam?

I doubt you repeat the same one again. You’ll most likely get 14 or 15. Not sure if there are others circulating. Good luck!

[SIMSEK]

Hi guys, I did SAMRA 16 today, and it was terrible. I fail (which is normal for SAMRA 16, according to some comments here LOL). Does anyone know if, in the next time, I have a chance of doing SAMRA 16 again, or we don’t repeat the same exam?

It's given randomly by the system. Almost impossible to come across the same exam unless it's your 15th attempt.

[WWSGomes]

Hey everyone

I was very happy to find some informations on the SAMRA on here and I thought I would give some feedback as well. I wrote SAMRA 15 this morning. I used the Aerocourse workbook, Nizus (which was not too bad for SAMRA honestly), the Air Command Weather Manual, the AIP and the AIM.

Below are the notes I wrote down right after the exam, enjoy!

Weather radar
Scan method lower and middle parts first
Time to CP with all engines
New altitude NAT clearance received in CDA, what should you do? Follow it now or once entering the Gander Oceanic Airspace (via Datalink)
Decode metar and GFA
IFR Outlook and definition (less than 1000 AGL and or less than 3SM)
Raim alert threshold. (2, 1, 0.3)
LNaV cold weather approach slope (shallower)
Raim questions
TCAs detection of other aircraft if not equipped/ transp off etc...
Vertical clouds in center of low pressure area because of convergence (not because of frontal lift)
Calculate Specific ground range in NM/lbs
Vertical distance between pressure levels in cold/warm air less in cold
AIRMETS condition of issue
ADS B options on what it provides (not TCAS to Air traffic controller answer)
WAAS can’t remember question
LCL clouds on GFA (less than 25%)
Obtain pressure altitude set 29.92 on subscale
Decode SIGMET and PIREP (multiples)
What (rain, hail, virga and volcanic ashes) can be detected by ground weather radar, all except volcanic ashes
INS wording weird acceleration against time
Calculate fuel for IFR turbo jet
Ice pellets imply freezing rain aloft
No warm layer aloft in warm supercooled rain process
30 knots isotach closer than 90nm sufficient shear for CAT on low pressure side
relative humidity or dew point point spread: dew point gives better indication of moisture
Strong winds due to funnel winds in mouth of valley on coastal area (not sea breeze or Nocturnal jet stream)
Ice crystals grow if there are supercooled droplets in cloud
Warning/ cooling process without exchanging heat adiabatic
Stronger surface winds around ridges than troughs
Saturated air cools at DALR when subsiding
Microburst downdraft effect on angle of attack and lift
Relative humidity after air is condensating
Decode flight plan (time to alternate and fuel remaining once at destination)
VOLMET weather is current forecast and sigmets on designated frequ found in CFS
Temperature change westbound through trowal
Air moving faster behind cold front causing trowal
Winds around a QS front (winds parallel to the front or stronger on cold or warm side)
RNAV standalone or overlay: don’t require trad navaid to be functional, can monitor it but not mandatory
Multilateration based on SSR
PSR Target traffic info by ATC: range and azimuth only (no AS and ALt)
Vertical extent of icing when just below or well below freezing
Stratocumulus clouds south of shore with strong winds because of: mechanical turbulence
IFR mandatory routes weird question I didn’t know, picked the more logical one
Ground covered by clouds below a plane at FL220( careful because some clouds in the metar are at 25000!)
VV003: ceiling obscured at 300 feet, not BKN or whatever else was given
LLJ on GFA if below 6000 and more than 50 Knots

No other charts than GFAs (6), no radio aids or HF questions

Icing collection efficiency with thin wing and fast airspeed
Contours represent height of pressure levels in Dm on 250 Hpa charts
Lightning detection system behind mountains
Clouds evidence of jet streams, ragged and torn cirrus
Machmeter gives ratio of TAS to LSS
Warm air moves over very cold surface turbulent or not
Definition of tropopause (where temperature suddenly stops decreasing or starts increasing)
Radar altimeter failure affects GPWS

I hope this will help some of you out there!

Hi guys,
I passed SAMRA15 today. It had exactly the same questions as the list above. This list contains 70% of the test. Tks

[miketaylor]

do you wanna ad new questions?

[Me262]

Is it SAMRA that is very hard or is that SARON?