Originally Posted by
ajcucinella
Hello guys and gals, I've been pursuing my private pilot certification for a few years now. The duration of this certificate was mostly extended due to my bad experiences with flight schools and instructors. I'm currently making great progress with UND Aerospace, located in Arizona. However,
I'm feeling quite burnt out and unable to motivate myself to continue to study the private pilot material. My stage check is coming up and I'm looking for any advice on how to raise my motivation or any study techniques that have worked in the past. Overall, I've been reading through the aviation books which causes my fatigue at an increasing rate.
Any advice, technique, tips, or encouragement is highly appreciated!
Anthony.
Do you have a friend or two that you can study with?
I found it was much easier to learn in a small group, 2-4 of us, taking turns asking questions and throwing info back and forth at each other, than just sitting alone in my room, trying to keep my eyes open while reading through a bunch of very dry regulations. We called it playing "Stump the Dummy" as we would try to find some obscure stuff and shed some light on it.
If you don't have a study buddy, (or even if you do) make some flash cards for yourself, based on possible oral questions you think you might get. Talk to as many IP's as possible, ask them what types of questions to expect, use those for the flash cards.
Just the act of writing the questions/answers down on a card will help cement the answers in your head. Every time you go to the crapper, take the cards in with you and run through them.
Before my instrument check in T38's, I brought a case of beer to one of my IP's house and asked if he would spend an hour bouncing questions off me, to prepare for the ride and the oral. I bought him another case after I passed!
Oh, and be sure you chair fly the entire check ride profile a few times every night before you go to sleep.
