Just crept in…

I popped down to Rosie’s today to do my two outstanding exams – Meteorology and Navigation. I did Met first and ended up with 80 or 85% (can’t remember the figure – will have to check with Rosie) which I was very pleased and satisfied with. Can’t say the same about Nav though.

With that, I just scraped through with a pass of 70%. That meant I got 6 questions out of 20 wrong, which I don’t think is really a very good result. On the plus side, I have to admit that I didn’t do very much preparation for the exam and to be honest, I haven’t done any serious navigation for over 20 years. But the main reason why I’m disappointed with myself is that I threw away at least 4 questions because either I was stupid and put down the wrong answer when with a couple of moments more thought I actually knew the correct one or I failed to spot the information needed to answer the question in front of me on the chart used for the question or in the supporting AIP information supplied with it 🙁

Anyway, I’m through and it’s something I can now tick off the list. All I need to worry about now is the flying, the easy bit you might say. Rosie and I chatted afterwards. No effort wasted there, then, Rosie said about Nav and wasn’t she right. 🙂

We agreed that I must now press on with the flying at full speed, whenever the weather permits, so I can get to GST standard by the end of May and achieve my Restricted licence. So that’s what I’ll do and then I can upgrade it to a full Unrestricted licence at my leisure in the few weeks following, as I mentioned in my last post. I may have only just crept in as far as Nav is concerned, but the door is now open to press on just as I planned. 😉