For the fix-to-fix question. I used the pencil method and moved on. Marked that as a question to come back to, if I had time after I answered all the other questions.

*pencil method with an slight adjustment for wind, has always gotten me with a mile.

 

I'm probably looking at this too much from a post-ptobationary perspective, but this feels very much like an "expand the team" moment to me.

"Atlanta Radio..."

Sure seems like it would show great CRM skills to have one guy calling the CPSC or Duty Pilot, while the others keep working the MMPI.

 

I think you flip flopped it. 2 radials is 1 mile in this case.

 

One thing I've always wondered about the first one… What's the rule of thumb on the Mach vs. GS? Mach depends on temperature, so wouldn't you need to know the either the SAT, or the altitude (assuming ISA lapse rate)?

On the second one, wouldn't it depend upon where you're standing? Turbojet v. turbofan? If you're at the front of the engine, wouldn't you hear the compressors mostly. The sound is pretty directional as you move around a running engine.

 

I think you might have misread his post. At 30 dme 2 radials per nm is the same thing as .5nm per radial.

 

Funny I went back and looked at my gouge and came up with 1802.5 as well. So has anyone recently had this question because it appears that the choices for a correct answer do not exist. I was thinking of a right triangle in relation to the degree of change so it through me off.

 

Rule of thumb is Mach number = miles per minute. In this scenario, .6m would equal 6 miles per minute, or 360 kts. I also got 1802.5z. Thought I was losing it!

 

If the test hasn't changed since 2007, some of the questions don't have correct answers, some take about 2 seconds to answer, and some will take you a few minutes to figure out. You will also only see about 1/3 of the questions from the gouge and 2/3 of your questions will be slightly different, but easy to figure out if you have studied the gouge.

One tip. You will have about 1 minute per question. I skipped all the ones that I knew would take me longer than a minute and answered all the ones I knew for sure that were easy. I then went back and "guessed" on the ones that I figured had no correct answer. Then I spent the rest of the time figuring the ones that would take some time. I finished with about 2 minutes to spare. I knew a few guys who got hung up on the no answer questions and some of the tough ones and didn't finish the test. Much better to finish the easy ones then guess on the tough ones if you run out of time. Just make sure to watch the time and manage that during the test.

 

Yes, I am almost positive this is correct. I f-ed it up in my original post by saying it was 2NM/radial at 30DME. It should be .5NM/radial at 30DME. Either way, the correct answer is not there, so the question in the gouge was probably remembered incorrectly.

 

I think that the powers that be think that it depends on the individual. There are plenty of "brick and mortar" so called students that use college as a 4 year extention of their high school childhood to party hardy and play hackey sack in the quad in between binge drinking-vomiting-repeat episodes while getting worthless degrees in feelings and statism, all on daddy or the government's money.

Meanwhile *some* online students are working one or more full time jobs maybe even while raising a family and giving back to their community in some way, while earning a far tougher and more useful degree, and paying for it themselves.

If you had to choose between those two hypotheticals, all other things being equal, which would you pick to hire?