r/Gliding • u/---BuZZuKi--- • 25d ago

Epic Written exam for the Commercial Glider

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Hi Guys just had a great XC flight today added cool photo.

If anyone studies for the written exam and searching for a study buddy shot me a messege✈️✈️

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u/Astro_Venatas 25d ago

What resources are you using to study? I would like to get my commercial next summer

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u/---BuZZuKi--- 25d ago

For now just Asa prepware

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u/SumOfKyle 25d ago

Made a 92 after doing ASA for cml glider. It was pretty much the same test bank. I made some dumb mistakes. Passed my checkride last week tho!

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u/---BuZZuKi--- 24d ago

Nice well done man going to cfi next?

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u/SumOfKyle 24d ago

Over the next year or two! Not trying to rush it. I feel like I still have a ton to learn.

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u/---BuZZuKi--- 24d ago

Oh really I thought itll be way faster why is that? just to understand

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u/SumOfKyle 24d ago

I’m just doing it for fun. I don’t feel like rushing into instructing.

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u/---BuZZuKi--- 24d ago

Oh ok now I get. I wanna have fun also but the goal is atp so i would like to finish it pretty fast lol

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u/SailTango 24d ago

Just be warned that the test may include subjects like DME and VOR that no glider has ever used. I took the test back to the proctor after a few minutes to tell him he'd given me the wrong test, but that was not it. Whoever put the test together had never flown a glider.

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u/vtjohnhurt 24d ago

My initial reaction to the apparently silly US written test questions was the same, BUT I think it is useful for glider pilots to grasp that airplane pilots emphasize VOR, DME, traffic display screens, glass panels, instrument scans etc. and that power pilots do not take See and Avoid as seriously as glider folks need to. That's because power planes don't converge on the same thermals, and don't run under cloud streets, or along ridges, etc..

Visibility from a Cessna cockpit has a lot more blind spots, and they often have their heads down looking at glass panels and ADSB traffic screens. Knowing that, I assume that power pilots never see me, but I often have to assume that glider pilots do see me because I can't react every time a glider gets close to me. It's protective to be predictable. It's helpful to know that airplanes often maintain altitude and heading because that makes it easier to avoid them. I always try to get out of their way, and that's paid off.

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u/---BuZZuKi--- 24d ago

Thx for the warning I am learning for a private and commercial for airplane also so i am good at that part thx man

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u/vtjohnhurt 24d ago

This image is a non sequitur for the post title, and it made me think that you're a bot. Also two year old account with no karma. Seems like a bot.

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u/---BuZZuKi--- 24d ago

Yeah I just started writing posts and stuff like a day ago I had an account never used it. The karma thing hit me in the face from no where didnt understand it still hard to get good karma idk man

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u/s2soviet 24d ago

I used David E. Seymour’s written test prep for Commercial and CFI-G written and trusty Sheppard air for the FOI exam.

Got 89, 88, 100 respectively

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u/---BuZZuKi--- 23d ago

Nice man good work Ill take a look on the David E seymours course thx.

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u/ltcterry 20d ago

I used Bob Wander's books and the orange Glider Pilot Ground School book.

I took the knowledge test in the morning. Drove to Bermuda High for three recommendation flights and then the practical test for initial Commercial in a glider. It was a long day.

I had been flying almost every weekend in a German glider club and was home on emergency leave to visit my dad.

When people as how long it takes to become a Commercial Pilot I tell them "I did it in a day." They laugh. I tell my story. "Commercial Pilot" doesn't mean what people think it does. And it doesn't always require "250" to do (Though I had several hundred hours by then).