So on the 9th June I received access to the Bristol Ground School ATPdigital program and instantly got started with ATPL theory week 1: Maths, Physics and Meteorology.
You get a licence to install the software on two computers (PC or Mac) and one iPad. I haven’t had a chance to use the iPad version yet but as I am traveling to Euro 2016 next week (come on England!) I will get a chance to test this out and see how good it is.
I have given myself two months to complete module 1 with another month after that for revision and to work on question bank / identify weak areas. After this I will go to the revision week and take the exams the week after.
The very first module you need to complete is a maths and physics revision course. I am not bad with physics but I haven’t really done much maths since I left high school which is now a good 15 years ago (wow I’m old). Maths is not something that comes naturally to me but practice makes perfect and all that.
I went through this course over the period of 2 days and I found that YouTube is by far the most helpful site out there. There are great channels that explain just about everything you could ever want to know in very simple terms. I will list 3 of my favorites.
If you can’t find what you are after between them 3 guides then chances are you don’t really need to know it (at this level at least). I wish I had such great resources like this available when I was in school studying!
The maths and physics level is GCSE level I would say, so don’t worry you don’t need to be the next Albert Einstein or anything.
I then entered the ATPL course which kicks of with Meteorology, there is a lot of things that were on the PPL sylabus such as lapse rate, pressure, ISA deviation, QFE, QNH, drift etc. I have just started to touch on the subject so I am sure there is a lot more to go.
Continue! Great post!
Just trying how to remember to do the intense studying! It’s getting easier…. I think