Well there goes another week. The heavy workload has started coming at a ridiculous pace and is needing a lot more hours of notice at night.
We have started gas turbine engines, so the big commercial high by-pass engines, turboprop etc and also started looking at autoflight (autopilot, autoland, autothrottle et al). All very interesting stuff, however, a lot to learn whilst retaining the past knowledge from before our first tests.
I forgot to mention that a week or so ago I obtained the role of class representative and have been carrying out a register each day, checking for class mail at reception and basically being a spokesperson for the class of AP321 as a whole, which may I add, I love. Within the mail this week were Bucks New University student cards, which means DISCOUNT! ;D
I am helping out on the skills assessment area of the school tomorrow at the open day and once again helping out during the presentations. I always look forward to the open days as they're great fun to answer everyones' questions and really help provide a deeper knowledge and understanding for potential future attendees of OAA. I'll keep you posted on how it goes.
As for the above, it's been a fairly good week, the class were groggy to start on Monday after the week off however, thawed out a bit towards the middle of Tuesday!
Weekend plans:
Saturday: Open day then back home for ironing (yes, your eyes do not deceive you) and a night of Gas Turbines and Meteorology.
Sunday: Instruments, Human Performance and AC Electrics and an early night!!!
Speak soon
Sam
Friday 18 February 2011
Thursday 10 February 2011
Apologies
Good morning readers,
I would like to apologise for the drought of blogging that has taken place over the last three weeks or so. This however, can be justified by the sheer workload and preparation for test 1s.
Regarding test 1s, I achieved a 75% average which I am rather happy with as it was nowhere near the worst grade in the class and also allows me to make a target of 90% average for School Finals. School Finals are again OAA regulated exams and will be taking place at the end of March, they will cover a much larger range of topics, infact the whole of the stage one syllabus and will be approximately 10 days before the biggies, the JAR exams (Civil Aviation Authority regulated exams).
We will now be given access to the Oxford question bank called Oxcel. This is an online site for Oxford students, post test 1s full of JAR style questions, so we can do question after question all day everyday if we wanted, but I think that would lead to insanity, so I probably won't go for such an intense approach. This is already helping as I know where I fell down on my test 1 exams, so I have been looking over these areas on Oxcel and cementing answers I was unsure of into my head and learning the theory behind these answers as I go.
It was a great relief to have the first exams done and all passed. All of the course members came round to our house the night of results, for Dominos pizza (27 pizzas!!) and the celebrations continued until late.
We have been lucky this week and have been given a week out of ground school after test 1s, which no other course gets. This is because our group started early in December and the intakes are usually towards the end of each month, so we needed to be staggered, it's been fantastic! It has allowed me to catch up on my sleep, catch up on my work and also given me a chance to go up to Carlisle to visit my girlfriend this weekend. This being said, I cannot wait to get stuck in again and just tick off each day, the closer and closer the 321 get to Arizona the better.
Now I haven't got exams until the end of March, I will update this more often!
Hope you're all well and by all means post comments underneath here, I'll return them as soon as I can
Speak soon
Sam
I would like to apologise for the drought of blogging that has taken place over the last three weeks or so. This however, can be justified by the sheer workload and preparation for test 1s.
Regarding test 1s, I achieved a 75% average which I am rather happy with as it was nowhere near the worst grade in the class and also allows me to make a target of 90% average for School Finals. School Finals are again OAA regulated exams and will be taking place at the end of March, they will cover a much larger range of topics, infact the whole of the stage one syllabus and will be approximately 10 days before the biggies, the JAR exams (Civil Aviation Authority regulated exams).
We will now be given access to the Oxford question bank called Oxcel. This is an online site for Oxford students, post test 1s full of JAR style questions, so we can do question after question all day everyday if we wanted, but I think that would lead to insanity, so I probably won't go for such an intense approach. This is already helping as I know where I fell down on my test 1 exams, so I have been looking over these areas on Oxcel and cementing answers I was unsure of into my head and learning the theory behind these answers as I go.
It was a great relief to have the first exams done and all passed. All of the course members came round to our house the night of results, for Dominos pizza (27 pizzas!!) and the celebrations continued until late.
We have been lucky this week and have been given a week out of ground school after test 1s, which no other course gets. This is because our group started early in December and the intakes are usually towards the end of each month, so we needed to be staggered, it's been fantastic! It has allowed me to catch up on my sleep, catch up on my work and also given me a chance to go up to Carlisle to visit my girlfriend this weekend. This being said, I cannot wait to get stuck in again and just tick off each day, the closer and closer the 321 get to Arizona the better.
Now I haven't got exams until the end of March, I will update this more often!
Hope you're all well and by all means post comments underneath here, I'll return them as soon as I can
Speak soon
Sam
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