What other sources do you gentlemen use to study for your PPL written exam. I have one coming in the near future and have a few books, been studying Sporty's study guide and questions along with the same on AAOP's website. I also have some video series and they include quizzes as well.

For some reason I remember other instructors telling me there is other websites that have the actual written exam questions as well, and if you can consistently get good grades then you shall be fine on the written. Like I said some other advice and I will ask my instructor today but nothing wrong with getting other opinions on which ones are good, helpful, and bad.

 

I used Gliem's software test prep. You can do all q's or a sample test. Repeat until you're in the 90's.

I'll probably take some heat for this, but I short-circuited some of the lengthy flight planning/E6B/Wind Triangle questions. I'd take a key word from the question and use it as a memory aid to select the correct multiple guess question. IIRC, for the Instrument there question asked about the HABUT intersection. I turned that into a nun's Habit, which is Catholic, which is answer "C". That was 15 years ago, so I don't know if they randomize the answers now - so caveat emptor.

The important thing was I knew how to do the manual calculations and understood the concepts and could demonstrate that to the examiner. It's a timed test and this just helped get through it. With today's automation, you'll never need paper, pencil or an E6B after the test and practical.

<Asbestos panties on>

 

Sheppard Air. That is all..

 

Based on my experience with their ATP written prep, Shepperd Air offers what essentially is a system of cheating on FAA exams using cheat sheets. How they get away with it is a mystery to me. For a brand-new pilot to start out of the gate especially, cheating is not a good plan and the written exams are goals that are designed to motivate personal growth to get the grade. This group is much better off using the honest systems of study- Sporty's, ASA, Gleim, King, Jeppesen, and a few others. This makes sure they have a solid knowledge foundation for further growth as pilots.

 

I found a few online quick practice exams and it seems that Sporty's video series and quizzes have by far been the most helpful with this...

 

I used the ASA blue book back in 2008, it was a good book. With that and sportys study buddy I scored a 92. I'll be using sheppard air for the CFI stuff as I heard it is the best.

 

Awesome yeah ill have to look into it more like i said i have some time!

 

Second I wouldn't suggest Sheppard Air to a student pilot.

 

I used the ASA book along with exams4pilots.com, and scored in the 90s. Memorizing questions for the written isn't a bad idea, but you have to learn it eventually for the oral.

 

Like the poster above mentioned exam4pilots.com is a useful (and free) website to compare where your overall knowledge level is at. I make all of my students score consistently +85% on there before I will endorse them for the actual writtens.