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It is now time for us to sit through the ATPL theories, which started today and will last until April. So the whole winter will now pass in the classroom studying some in-depth aviation theory. Our theory course covers both the ATPL and IR theory requirements, and the total amount of classroom hours will be 450. There are 14 different subjects in this theory course, which are essentially the same that we studied during the CPL course. They are:
010 AL = Air Law
020 AGK = Aircraft General Knowledge
- 021 AGK Systems (Airframes, engines & electronics)
- 022 AGK Instruments (Flight instruments and -computers)
030 FPP = Flight Planning & Performance
- 031 Mass & Balance
- 032 Performance
- 033 Flight Planning & Monitoring
040 HPL = Human Performance & Limitations
050 MET = Meteorology
060 NAV = Navigation
- 061 General Navigation
- 062 Radio Navigation
070 OPS = Operational Procedures
080 POF = Principles of Flight or "Aeromystique" ;)
090 COM = Communications
- 091 VFR COM = VFR Communications
- 092 IFR COM = IFR Communications
Only one of these subjects is totally new and it's called IFR Communications. Of course many of the old subjects have now some new additional things to learn (like high-speed aerodynamics in POF and polar stereographic charts in NAV), but most of the items are familiar from the CPL course.
This time we are doing things a little differently compared to the CPL course. We will go through half of the subjects, do the school exams and then the Trafi (Finnish CAA) exams out of the way before going through the other half. In my opinion, this is a huge improvement since now you can concentrate on 6-7 subjects, pass the exams and then "forget" about them and start worrying about the other half, instead of keeping current and remembering everything from all of the 14 subjects at once.
So, here we go again!
PS: I will be posting at a slightly lousier pace from now on, since well.. theory is theory and there's really not much to say about my daily school-life. Wake up in the morning, go to school, sit there for seven hours, go back home exhausted, open the computer, start going through question banks, go to sleep.. and so on :)
