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snowbird101@my-dejanews.com wrote:

: Richard asked if this is part of the current PPL curriculum.  I
: went and had a look, and it appears to be the same test which was
: included in a chapter of my Jeppeson PP Manual (now superceded by
: the new edition).  So the answer appears to be yes.

Excellent.  Thank you.

: Dave, maybe this identifies me as a walking hazardous attitude, I
: don't know, but frankly while I wouldn't call it "bunk", I have a
: lot of trouble with the test because it seems that the way I actually
: think about or assess situations just isn't represented!  I go through
: the test saying "but!" and "well, wait a minute, that's what I'd do but
: not for any of the reasons in the choices given, not at all!"

: Does anyone else have this trouble?  I'd actually love to have something
: which could assess and maybe improve or identify problem areas in my
: aeronautical decision making, but that test just doesn't do it for me.

Perhaps I read too much science fiction, but I have a well developed
"willing suspension of disbelief".  My reaction to each of the
test questions was more along the lines of "but I wouldn't DO that
in the first place!"

so...

I approached the test by assuming that I did end up doing each
situation just as described.  

I then selected the "explanation" that offended me the least.

In situation 6, for example, I can't imagine myself *not* preflighting
the plane for any of the reasons given.

However, in the context of the excercise I found
"C. some of the preflight is a waste of time" much less objectionable
than "E. If something happens, it's the mechanics fault".

Since the excercise is measuring tendencies, my finding of "C" as
less objectionable tells me that perhaps I have a trace of
"invulnerable" in my system.

Did anyone else find the statement in the test "Keep in mind there are
no right answers" to be extremely funny?  :-)

Cheers,

Rick

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