PPL Air Law Studies

[FirstOfficerTom]

Hi everyone,

Im doing my PPL at Biggin Hill with Cabair.  I've got my medical done and all that awaits now is the air law exam.

I have the Pooleys range of books and the PPL confuser. I have a massive interest in aviation and I want to go all the way and become an ATP.

I am just finding it ridiculously hard to absorb air law.  I am a visual learner (learn best by seeing pictures/diagrams/colour) and I thought I would go through the book and make colourful notes with diagrams.  After 5 hours of this I had got through 20/183 pages  :-\

After searching on PPrune, I found that some had learnt the entire syllabus in merely a few hours.  I have spent a good 5 hours reading thoroughly but still when I flick back to a page I find that I havent learnt half of it

Any tips?  ???

[Dozer]

Don't be put off because you're not one of those that can lear it all in 5 hours - some people's brains are wired that then can just absorb laws and procedures like... like... like a metaphor for something really absorbant! For 'normal' people it will take longer, that's fine.

There was a learning technique I read about*. Learn a thing, then revise what you've learned straightaway. Then revise it again five minutes later. Then again fifteen minutes later. Then half an hour later, then an hour later, then two hours, four hours, eight hours, the next day, two days later, four days later, a week later, fortnight, month - the principle is, learn, then revise after a certain amount of time, then again after twice as much time, and repeat. The downside is you might never ever forget PPL air law, and that could potentially cause madness.

Apparently, this pattern of revision matches the way your brain recalls stuff naturally.

*disclaimer: I read about it in a highly recommended book whose title I have forgotten, but haven't done it myself...