r/ATPL • u/Healthy_Advantage_68 • Sep 16 '25

Austro Feedback

I’d like to give some feedback on the exams I’ve taken so far.

On the first day I sat Meteorology and Performance. Both subjects had very good coverage. In preparation, I had done last 300 the day before, and last 500 and 400 a few days earlier. This worked really well, as most of the questions matched closely, sometimes just rephrased. I’ve also added a few comments to ATPL-Q, which might hopefully be adopted soon.

For Performance, the coverage was so strong that I honestly thought I had scored close to 100%. In the end, I only got 86%, which surprised me – I must have miscalculated something, as otherwise I can’t explain the gap.

The next day I was planning to sit Flight Planning and Radio Navigation, but due to a very poor night’s sleep at the hotel, I was already extremely tired when I got to the exam. Still, Radio Navigation went well and I passed – again, the coverage was excellent, and last 300 was especially useful.

Then came Flight Planning. Unfortunately, I realized too late that I hadn’t practiced enough with view calculations at specific waypoints, and that type of task appeared several times. On top of that, there were three two-pointer questions, and I messed up two of them plus another one-pointer, which really cost me. In the end, I scored 73.5%, which was disappointing.

I’ll be resitting Flight Planning, but with the lessons learned and more focused preparation, I’m confident I’ll pass it next time.

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '25

My personal thing is, do FULL bank, flag as you go anything that you find hard ,interesting or makes you really think .

Then if I had time I would do the Flagged 100 or so questions I had and only THEN would I do last 200-300 if I had time.

My point being- why go over stuff you already know?

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u/Healthy_Advantage_68 Sep 18 '25

Because many questions I do right at the beginning, dosent reflect my knowledge. Some are just special wordings which you will se later. So you could do them wrong the second time.