On Fri, 02 Feb 2007 07:55:21 -0500, Roy Smith wrote:

"Jim Macklin" wrote:
Know how to interpret the material from on-line sources.
The key is, can you draw a crude picture of the weather
[verbally or with a pencil] and then apply that to the FAR
as to whether the weather, currently and forecast, will
allow the operation.

When I was doing my training (early 90's), I found studying the chart
material very difficult, for two reasons. First, the charts they showed
you in the study guides were badly reproduced, sometimes to the point of

When I took the written (on computer) they used low res *EGA*
monitors. I could not read the charts as presented or even the text
identifiers on those screens. Those were the only questions I missed.

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com