My Flight Journal

Sunday, April 18, 2004 6:09pm

%#&@#$%#&@!!!!

93%

Not that I'm a perfectionist or anything.

The test was 63 questions, but three of them were "evaluation questions" (I forget the term they used). Basically, they were possible questions they might start using on future tests and they're throwing them out there now to see what the results are. They don't count toward your score.

I was taking one practice test a night, every night during the week or two leading up to the real test. Yesterday and this morning I took 3 more practice tests. I was scoring 92- 100%, averaging around 96% I'd estimate. So when I scored 93% on the real test it really disappointed me. I think I kinda shocked the examiner when he "congratulated" me on a 93 and my face fell into a scowl instead of a smile.

Only one of the four questions I missed had appeared on the dozens of practice tests I'd taken before - and it was from one of the first, which is why I didn't remember the correct answer. Actually, I think it's a stupid question: do you adjust the miniature airplane to the horizon bar, or the horizon bar to the miniature airplane on the AI. My answer is, when I twist the knob, one of the two of them is going to move and I'll figure it out from there. Why do I need to know this? Unfortunately that wasn't one of the options.

Anyway, that's out of the way now. Time to concentrate on flying.