writing the ATPL's soon

[snowcone]

Hi everyone,

I'll be writing the ATPL's soon. Searching previous posts I've found a lot of helpful tips and info (thanks to all who have posted in the past), but was wondering if anyone out there has wrote either the SARON or SAMRA recently and can give me a hand with more up to date tips. Feel free to PM or even better just post on here.

Thanks

SC

[snowcone]

One more thing... I have the 4th edition of the Aerocourse book. Does anyone know how similar it is to the newer 5th edition? Is it worth trying to get my hands on the newer book?

[av8tor_assrope]

I'm writing soon too. Latest info would be appreciated as well....

Cheers

[team shifty]

I wrote the SAMRA today and I wrote the SARON at the end of may. On my SAMRA I had about 55 questions on weather and most of those were weather theory. I had studied the upper air/surface analysis and prognostic charts a lot and didn't get any questions about them on my exam. I only had one question on decoding a GFA but I had several about METAR's and TAF's. The questions on the GFA's, METAR's and TAF's were pretty simple, all stuff that you'd know from using them on a daily basis when you go flying. I used the Aerocourse ATPL workbook, . and From the Ground Up to study for the SAMRA. The Aerocourse book is really good. I found the questions in it went into a lot more detail then anything I had on my exam so after going through the workbook I was well prepared and none of the questions on the exam surprised me. The other 25 or so questions were on flight planning, flight instruments and nav aids. I had a few questions each on GPS and INS systems and several on VOR's and NDB's. Most of my GPS questions dealt with RAIM in some way. Lots of the VOR and NDB questions dealt with system and receiver accuracy such as: for enroute navigation an NDB is maintained to + or - this many degrees or when you're testing your VOR using a VOT the VOR can be out + or - this many degrees. I had some questions on the widths of airways and air routes as well. There were a couple questions on errors with NDB's about night effect and stuff like that.

I don't remember the SARON as well because I wrote it over a month ago but I found the . text book really helpful in studying for it because it gives good explanations on how to use the different weight and balance and performance charts on the exams. Lots of the performance charts I'd never seen before so it was helpful to have a book that explained how to use them rather then figuring them out on my own which just would have taken more time.

Basically to study all I did was go through the Aerocourse work book and answer all the questions and the ones I got wrong I figured out why and studied that stuff. If you do that you should be fine, the aerocourse book is pretty thorough. I had the 5th edition of the book but I don't know how it compares to the 4th.

[AV8R]

I have the ATPL workbook 5th edition that I bought in April and used to write the exams so I no longer need it.

If your interested drop me a PM with a fair price.

[Phlyer]

Keep in mind that there are four versions of each exam. As far as I can tell there is a very easy version, two medium versions and one hard version. Which one you get depends on who is working that day - so it is in your interest to be polite and friendly.