Originally Posted by Cubdriver

Did it ever dawn on you this example with the distance to station is a mental exercise to develop the ability to think clearly about angles, time and distance relationships? And the FAA is just trying to harass people? Your attitude is not what you will need to become a successful instructor. You do not have to go around mouthing false platitudes about written exams, but you should have more respect for the advanced pilots who write these tests- while they are certainly fallible human beings, many of them have thousands of hours teaching behind them and you have let me see, none according to your other posts. It's fine to say you have no idea how a particular concept could ever find practical application to real flying, but to broadly bash the FAA test writers is going a bit too far.

Pearl- nice job! Keep it up.