Originally Posted by JetBlast77

He was asking me exactly what components come off each bus (some I knew but not all), and a lot a "why" questions. They isn't my first oral exam obviously and I expected that, but when I couldn't always come up with the why answers he would get mad. He was also asking me where to find a bunch of charts that I've never used before but he was convienced I should be using everyday on the line. He also wanted to know exactly where the loops for fire detection were on the engines, how many fans were located in various compartments for cooling.

It just doesn't seem like I should get busted on a PC for saying there were 3 recirc. fans instead of 4 in the avionics compartment. I studying my brains out for this oral and to get screwed on questions like this which he claimed were basic is ridiculous to me. No one is going to die because I don't know where the fire detection loops are. As the pilot, I know what should happen when I engage the fire detection and what to do if it doesn't. Isn't that enough?