Someone just pointed me to this
That’s absolute rubbish. A fibre is completely immune to EMI. No shielding is required. Whoever wrote that is totally clue-less.
This is also barely near the mark
and this
This is bull as well. What does DC resistance have to do with the quality of RF grounding?
That’s about a 50% bullsh**t score on that one page.
I recall a colleague, who was then studying for the EASA66 exams, showing me some stuff on transistors, which was completely wrong.
Who writes this garbage?
The fibre one is worth a double facepalm alone. Good grief!
Are these questions for pilots!? Please tell me these aren’t questions on an exam for pilots!
They are exams for EASA 66 (Part M) certified maintenance engineers.
It has always been the same, I know I would have failed the UK CPL technical hydraulic exam because it was based on a DC3 hydraulic system and at the time my job was as a Licenced engineer with CRS authorization on Boeing 737, BAC1-11 & A320. I would have answered all the questions based on the aircraftnd systems I was familiar with…………….. Not the antiques that the CAA examiners had in mind.
But for shear stupidity the latest EASA PPL exams are posably the most ill thought out and totaly inapropriate theoretical crap that I have seen, all they demonstrate is the total lack of understanding within EASA of the Knowledge that is required to fly a light aircraft. By putting this rubbish in the exam EASA are failing in their duty to examen pilots in the skills they require to be safe.
As you might guess its UKIP for me in may !
The other day I was talking to an old jet pilot, who I have known for years.
Many years ago he failed some CAA aircraft systems exam. He sat down with the CAA man to go over the questions he failed (those were the days when you could do that!) and on some of them he was sure the CAA answers were wrong – because he was already flying a DC10 (or similar – he had an FAA ATP already) whose systems were not as per the CAA answers.
The episode ended with this guy taking the CAA people to the actual plane in some hangar at Heathrow and showing them. They credited him the questions and he got a pass.
Today, you can in theory appeal crap questions but that is sort of difficult since you are not allowed to take anything out of the exam room! So the only way to get evidence (e.g. covert smartphone photos) is going to get you disqualified.
Today, you can in theory appeal crap questions but that is sort of difficult since you are not allowed to take anything out of the exam room! So the only way to get evidence (e.g. covert smartphone photos) is going to get you disqualified.
In Germany, there is a comment box for every question where you can supply additional information to the examiner in case you disagree. I have used it on several questions that were wrong or imprecise in the syllabus and I know that they took my feedback because in that subject I had a 100% pass. When you get the results, it contains the standard German administration boilerplate that you can appeal within 14 days. If you did that, they would have to show exactly how they arrived at their result and why your answer was incorrect. It would follow a standard path first via letter than via an administrative court which would have to rule on individual questions.
As a journalist i let specialists examin all the theory questions the LBA asked for ATPL, all subjects. We found 400 mistakes …
