BB wrote:
Greg Arnold wrote:
Mike wrote:
I am preparing to take my written Commercial Glider exam and have been
using various test guides and on line practice tests. I am curious as
to why there are questions pertaining to radio navigation included in
the question pool. Has anyone ever used a VOR or ADF in a glider?

Mike


Just took mine too. The largely irrelevant VOR-type questions are at
least better than the wrong, misleading or antiquated glider questions.
My favorite: "After a bounce on landing you should close the spoilers
and keep them closed." Try that in our Duo-Discus with 500 feet of
runway left....

Yeah, some of the glider questions are real doozies. If you actually
give the correct (non-FAA) answers, you probably can't get a score above
90%.


(Our local examiner actually gave a sensible answer to this VOR
question. A glider license lets you fly motorgliders, some of which are
a lot more motor than glider. Those definitely have VORs installed.)

John Cochrane BB


I am not sure that is a sensible answer. Pilots use the commercial
license to take up others for pay, and that is almost never done in
motorgliders. Nor is it done on cross-country flights, and that is the
only place where radio navigation might be arguably relevant. The
motorglider theory would make more sense for pilots taking the private
exam, but I don't think they ask such questions there.