any tips or advice? list of interesting questions that may have given you trouble. thanks guys.
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Good to hear they finally gave you a groundschool a1. Advice so as not to get Saudomized? 
As you know I flew one of the other groupings but this might help:
Study your SOP's, they're on the exam. Usually 3 or 4 emergency procedures are tested. Know all of them word for word. They're usually the last questions on the exam so go to them first and get them out of the way.
Remember, even though in real life you'd probably go Max power flaps up... if the SOP's say power and prop "as required" airspeed Vyse or above... Write them verbatim as they appear in the orange book. There'll probably be something on what the PNF call for angle of bank deviation means (ie +/- how many degrees), or how many degrees +/- track allowed on a non precision approach, and on a precision. But just one or two SOP questions, if you know em, they're easy freebies, if you haven't opened the orange book yet they're nooses.
Know convergence. Every KBA exam has one of those on it. The rest is just systems knowlege from the study guide. Usually there's a dumb freebie about how tall the tail is, or what the prop clearance is, but no guarantees. Know all your PT6 numbers from the engine perf chart, what is on the accessory drive, how a torquemeter works, what instruments need DC, AC, or are self generating.
Good luck a1.
CJ
As you know I flew one of the other groupings but this might help:Study your SOP's, they're on the exam. Usually 3 or 4 emergency procedures are tested. Know all of them word for word. They're usually the last questions on the exam so go to them first and get them out of the way.
Remember, even though in real life you'd probably go Max power flaps up... if the SOP's say power and prop "as required" airspeed Vyse or above... Write them verbatim as they appear in the orange book. There'll probably be something on what the PNF call for angle of bank deviation means (ie +/- how many degrees), or how many degrees +/- track allowed on a non precision approach, and on a precision. But just one or two SOP questions, if you know em, they're easy freebies, if you haven't opened the orange book yet they're nooses.
Know convergence. Every KBA exam has one of those on it. The rest is just systems knowlege from the study guide. Usually there's a dumb freebie about how tall the tail is, or what the prop clearance is, but no guarantees. Know all your PT6 numbers from the engine perf chart, what is on the accessory drive, how a torquemeter works, what instruments need DC, AC, or are self generating.
Good luck a1.
CJ
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I speak from past experience. It's the boot. But if you come back with a PPC on one of their types a few years later, no one will remember that you got the boot. Then if you have a PPC they want you can fail a GS too, and they'll give you another shot.
With rides usually they give a second chance, but not always. If you say showed up to the arctic in the middle of winter wearing sweat pants and running shoes and then failed your initial, you'd get a one way ticket home.
With rides usually they give a second chance, but not always. If you say showed up to the arctic in the middle of winter wearing sweat pants and running shoes and then failed your initial, you'd get a one way ticket home.
