For the student working towards a Private Pilot's Licence, three important test hurdles have to be cleared. They are the two flying skills tests- General Handling and Navigation - and the theoretical knowledge examinations, often referred to as the "ground exams." Passing the ground examinations requires two types of preparation.
You must, of course, learn thoroughly all the subject matter in the different theoretical knowledge disciplines, but then, before you sit the actual examinations, you must also familiarise yourself with the level of difficulty and style of the PPL examination questions themselves. This PPL Examination Preparation CD-ROM from Oxford Aviation Training - one of the world's leading pilot training schools - enables you to do just that.

In addition to all the questions from the complete set of the renowned OAT/Transair PPL Ground Training CD-ROMs, over 540 new questions have been added to this Exam Preparation CD-ROM, making over 1550 questions in all. Using the CD-ROM, you can test yourself on individual examination subjects, or attempt a complete PPL-style examination paper. The CD-ROM will mark your work, give you your result and indicate the questions that you have answered wrongly, inviting you to select the correct answer

Contents

• Aviation Law & Operational Procedures
• Human Performance & Limitations
• Navigation & Radio Aids
• Meteorology
• Aircraft (General) & Principles of Flight
• Flight Performance & Planning (including Mass & Balance)
• Radio-telephony Communications

One of the principal aims of this book is that it should assist you in preparing for success in the PPL theoretical knowledge examination in ‘Human Performance and Limitations’, whether you are learning to fly aeroplanes or helicopters. A further main aim of the book is to promote the cause of flight safety by enabling student pilots to learn the essentials about the interaction between the human being, the aircraft and the flying environment. Working through this volume will help you understand the human body’s limitations when operating in an aviation environment, and make it less likely that you will ever become the “human factor” in any aircraft accident.

Contents: HUMAN PERFORMANCE

• CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION
• CHAPTER 2: THE ATMOSPHERE
• CHAPTER 3: THE HUMAN BODY
• CHAPTER 4: THE EFFECTS OF PARTIAL PRESSURE
• CHAPTER 5: THE EYE
• CHAPTER 6: THE EAR
• CHAPTER 7: FLYING AND HEALTH
• CHAPTER 8: THE INFORMATION PROCESS
• CHAPTER 9: JUDGEMENT AND DECISION MAKING
• CHAPTER 10: VERBAL COMMUNICATION
• CHAPTER 11: STRESS
• CHAPTER 12: THE COCKPIT
• DEFINITIONS
• HUMAN PERFORMANCE SYLLABUS
• ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
• INDEX
  

If you are to get the most out of your flying lessons, from the point of view of instruction and value-for-money, you must be as mentally prepared as possible for each airborne training sortie. In order to achieve that aim, Oxford Aviation Training have created these interactive, graphically-rich, practical flying training briefings, especially for the student private pilot. The briefings, modelled on the long classroom briefings traditionally used in service flying training, provide a comprehensive treatment of the theory behind all the general handling flying lessons.

This CD-ROM, therefore, constitutes an invaluable training aid for the student PPL, the PPL flying instructor and for all those who simply wish to gain a deeper understanding of flying. By following the briefings on this CD-ROM, you benefit from Oxford's unrivaled flying training expertise, now delivered using the latest multi-media instructional techniques which make even the most awkward concept easy to grasp . There are 14 briefings, in all, packed with illustrations depicting countless scenarios typical of the PPL flying training programme.