Forty days. Four subjects. 112 classroom hours, tho realistically, a little less once you account for the occasional off-topics discussions. Whoever designed this schedule clearly believes in the “sink or swim” approach. But to my surprise, it wasn’t as brutal as I’d imagined, maybe bc I stayed locked in during class, or maybe I pushed myself harder in the evenings. idk.
Air Law (CLWA), Meteorology (CMET), and Navigation (CNAV) felt like safe bets going in. I knew I’d pass, whether by a comfortable margin or a narrow scrape was the only question. But Flight Planning (CFPA)? That one kept me on edge. My biggest enemy wasn’t the content, it was me. A stray digit on the load sheet here, a fat-fingered number in the calculator there… the kind of tiny errors that can turn a pass into a fail.
I have to give credit to the Starlux cadets, watching them work was inspiring. Not only did they pass, they ALL SMASHED it, turning in stellar scores. Sharing a classroom with such sharp, disciplined peers was a privilege.
Then there’s my VET crew, who’ve been trying to westernise me with the mantra, “a pass is a pass.” I get it, sometimes surviving the system is victory enough. But in aviation, the knowledge I skip today might be the very thing that saves my life tomorrow, esp since i don’t fly as well as they do, so gotta aim for above the bare minimum, long after the pass mark says I can stop.
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