Vor kurzem erreichte mich die folgende Mail:
Hallo Roland,
wie versprochen findest Du anbei eine Kopie meines LBA Prüfungsfeedbacks welches ich auf Intercockpits e-campus geschrieben habe.
Es freut mich wenn es vielleicht den einen oder anderen hilft.
VG
Pablo
Darmstadt, 20. June 2009
Hi,
I’ve just performed LBA and would like to share some feedback and news with all of you. Might be helpful for the one or the other…
Due to my commitment as lone father of a 10-years old boy I only had about 50% of the “normal” time to learn during the last 3 weeks before the exam.
So I decided to adapt my strategy to MY reality and focus on 9 subjects and prepare them properly, rather to try all 12 and fail half of them.
I therefore dropped 3 subjects, that I hadn’t review for 3 or more months.
That reduced the workload and allowed me to secure 9 out of 12.
In the meanwhile I’ve got the results and I’ve passed all the 9 subjects I have performed.
So my feedback concerns those 9 subjects only, which I would like to address in the same order as written in my exam.
1st day:
1. Instruments: 60-65 % Exam questions, the rest was new. Get yourself ready on: Gyros, FMS, Autopilot, GPWS, stickshaker and standard questions on Altimeter, Machmeter/ASI, etc.
a. read Bristol
b. run ATPonline (better than exam on this subject)
c. run Exam as well
2. Aerodynamic: there was a certain Exam “rate”, of eventually 40-50 %, however based on the LBA question pool I got, it wouldn’t have been possible to pass the Exam ONLY by learning with Exam. Here you really need to understand the subjects (Props, sub- & supersonic AD, stability (lateral, directional, longitudinal))
a. read Bristol and answer the Bristol course questions!
b. run ATPonline, is definitely better than Exam for POF
c. of course, run Exam as well
d. as a further summarizing literature you can use the
Pilot’s Reference Guide
3. Performance: about 15-20% new questions (no kidding!), otherwise 80-85 % Exam.
You have to know all speeds (VMC, VMCG, VEF, V1, VR, VMU, VLOF, V2, and their relationship, all t/o segments, climb, descent (a bit trigonometry to calculate Thrust/Drag/Weight relationships), etc.
a. Exam
b. ATP online is also good here, eventually even better than Exam.
c. you can also read Bristol of course, though
b. I found Jeppesen on Performance really helpful even better than Bristol on this particular subject (despite some mistakes in certain graphs…)
c. And then as a summary literature: the Pilot’s Reference Guide.
4. HPL: 85 % Exam, the rest new questions
a. Read Carsten Schmidt’s notes
b. Click Exam
That should be enough (so far…)
c. Personally, I also read Bristol on HPL and I google here a lot of
single subjects (eyes, ears/NIHL, sleep phases, Wickens, Hollnagel, Maslow, and I do even have some books from these authors, but only because I have a personal interest in psychology, resilience engineering and joint cognitive systems.
You won’t need all that! Just Exam and Carsten’s script is more than enough, at least for the pool of questions I got at the LBA…
2nd & 3rd day:
5. Airlaw: about 30 % new questions. NO KIDDING!! I heard that the first day, from someone who also got the same percentage on new questions and nobody believed him.
The day after I go in, and got the same feedback.
The LBA is currently updating the Airlaw, Performance and further question pools.
Some of the old 100 % Exam subjects have been updated recently.
YOU CAN’T ONLY RELY ON Peter Software’s Exam and expect to pass the LBA exam even in subjects that were 100 % Exam in the past. Those subjects (such as Airlaw, OPS, Performance, GNAV, FPLN and Mass & Balance) do contain at least 10-30 % new questions. Be aware of this! Eventually, you will still get 100 % Exam questions, but there is no longer any guarantee on that!
a. Read Bristol. It is best for Airlaw, with all the graphs and explanations.
b. You gotta click Exam properly here too, but as stated before: No guarantee!
c. Memorize here all values on IFR-separation, MNPS, Airspaces and licensing parameters. Study well Arrival, initial, intermediate, final and missed approach parameters. They ask all that.
6. OPS: mostly Exam (85%). CAT I / II / III of course and the Oxygen needs, you need to know Exam well and you should now all values for Fire extinguishers and crash axes as well.
To read Bristol might not be necessarily, but certainly helpful.
7. Powerplant-ETEC-Airframe: Oh boy, here you better learn!
No way, you go in for ASP, and you haven’t prepared yourself properly.
The LBA wanted to know everything, especially ETEC. A lot of questions on this subject as well as on Powerplant.
a. Read Bristol and go through the Bristol course, answer the questions
especially for ETEC it is really, really good.
b. Exam, sure yes, but I felt that
c. ATPonline is better than Exam on this subject
d. for Powerplant you can revise the summary on the Pilots Reference
Guide
8. RNAV: was about 90 % Exam.
a. you can read Bristol and of course click Exam on top of it
b. a lot of questions on Satellite Nav (we know that…)
but also on Basic RNAV, phantom stations and distances, etc.
9. Mass and Balance: Some new questions. Probably I wouldn’t have passed only with Exam.
a. click Exam of course, but also read Bristol or even better
b. I felt the Jeppesen book on Mass & Balance was really good to get ready for this exam. If you have access to it, use it!
So far, so good!
In about 4 weeks I shall give you more details on Met, GNAV and FPLN…
In the meanwhile, wish you all best luck and many happy landings!
Best regards.
Pablo Altmann
Hallo Roland,
wie versprochen findest Du anbei eine Kopie meines LBA Prüfungsfeedbacks welches ich auf Intercockpits e-campus geschrieben habe.
Es freut mich wenn es vielleicht den einen oder anderen hilft.
VG
Pablo
Darmstadt, 20. June 2009
Hi,
I’ve just performed LBA and would like to share some feedback and news with all of you. Might be helpful for the one or the other…
Due to my commitment as lone father of a 10-years old boy I only had about 50% of the “normal” time to learn during the last 3 weeks before the exam.
So I decided to adapt my strategy to MY reality and focus on 9 subjects and prepare them properly, rather to try all 12 and fail half of them.
I therefore dropped 3 subjects, that I hadn’t review for 3 or more months.
That reduced the workload and allowed me to secure 9 out of 12.
In the meanwhile I’ve got the results and I’ve passed all the 9 subjects I have performed.
So my feedback concerns those 9 subjects only, which I would like to address in the same order as written in my exam.
1st day:
1. Instruments: 60-65 % Exam questions, the rest was new. Get yourself ready on: Gyros, FMS, Autopilot, GPWS, stickshaker and standard questions on Altimeter, Machmeter/ASI, etc.
a. read Bristol
b. run ATPonline (better than exam on this subject)
c. run Exam as well
2. Aerodynamic: there was a certain Exam “rate”, of eventually 40-50 %, however based on the LBA question pool I got, it wouldn’t have been possible to pass the Exam ONLY by learning with Exam. Here you really need to understand the subjects (Props, sub- & supersonic AD, stability (lateral, directional, longitudinal))
a. read Bristol and answer the Bristol course questions!
b. run ATPonline, is definitely better than Exam for POF
c. of course, run Exam as well
d. as a further summarizing literature you can use the
Pilot’s Reference Guide
3. Performance: about 15-20% new questions (no kidding!), otherwise 80-85 % Exam.
You have to know all speeds (VMC, VMCG, VEF, V1, VR, VMU, VLOF, V2, and their relationship, all t/o segments, climb, descent (a bit trigonometry to calculate Thrust/Drag/Weight relationships), etc.
a. Exam
b. ATP online is also good here, eventually even better than Exam.
c. you can also read Bristol of course, though
b. I found Jeppesen on Performance really helpful even better than Bristol on this particular subject (despite some mistakes in certain graphs…)
c. And then as a summary literature: the Pilot’s Reference Guide.
4. HPL: 85 % Exam, the rest new questions
a. Read Carsten Schmidt’s notes
b. Click Exam
That should be enough (so far…)
c. Personally, I also read Bristol on HPL and I google here a lot of
single subjects (eyes, ears/NIHL, sleep phases, Wickens, Hollnagel, Maslow, and I do even have some books from these authors, but only because I have a personal interest in psychology, resilience engineering and joint cognitive systems.
You won’t need all that! Just Exam and Carsten’s script is more than enough, at least for the pool of questions I got at the LBA…
2nd & 3rd day:
5. Airlaw: about 30 % new questions. NO KIDDING!! I heard that the first day, from someone who also got the same percentage on new questions and nobody believed him.
The day after I go in, and got the same feedback.
The LBA is currently updating the Airlaw, Performance and further question pools.
Some of the old 100 % Exam subjects have been updated recently.
YOU CAN’T ONLY RELY ON Peter Software’s Exam and expect to pass the LBA exam even in subjects that were 100 % Exam in the past. Those subjects (such as Airlaw, OPS, Performance, GNAV, FPLN and Mass & Balance) do contain at least 10-30 % new questions. Be aware of this! Eventually, you will still get 100 % Exam questions, but there is no longer any guarantee on that!
a. Read Bristol. It is best for Airlaw, with all the graphs and explanations.
b. You gotta click Exam properly here too, but as stated before: No guarantee!
c. Memorize here all values on IFR-separation, MNPS, Airspaces and licensing parameters. Study well Arrival, initial, intermediate, final and missed approach parameters. They ask all that.
6. OPS: mostly Exam (85%). CAT I / II / III of course and the Oxygen needs, you need to know Exam well and you should now all values for Fire extinguishers and crash axes as well.
To read Bristol might not be necessarily, but certainly helpful.
7. Powerplant-ETEC-Airframe: Oh boy, here you better learn!
No way, you go in for ASP, and you haven’t prepared yourself properly.
The LBA wanted to know everything, especially ETEC. A lot of questions on this subject as well as on Powerplant.
a. Read Bristol and go through the Bristol course, answer the questions
especially for ETEC it is really, really good.
b. Exam, sure yes, but I felt that
c. ATPonline is better than Exam on this subject
d. for Powerplant you can revise the summary on the Pilots Reference
Guide
8. RNAV: was about 90 % Exam.
a. you can read Bristol and of course click Exam on top of it
b. a lot of questions on Satellite Nav (we know that…)
but also on Basic RNAV, phantom stations and distances, etc.
9. Mass and Balance: Some new questions. Probably I wouldn’t have passed only with Exam.
a. click Exam of course, but also read Bristol or even better
b. I felt the Jeppesen book on Mass & Balance was really good to get ready for this exam. If you have access to it, use it!
So far, so good!
In about 4 weeks I shall give you more details on Met, GNAV and FPLN…
In the meanwhile, wish you all best luck and many happy landings!
Best regards.
Pablo Altmann