5 Down, 3 To Go

Right, I wrote Navigation and Meteorology last week.
Things were off to a bad start before I had even woken up. Why? I overslept. Instead of leaving the house at 0620, I only woke up after 0630. And I had to race across to the other side of town to pick up a friend.

Luckily the traffic wasn’t took hectic, and I arrived in time for my exam.
Now then, Navigation was first. I was handed my stuff, and as I flicked through it I thought ‘Where’s the question paper? Maybe she’ll hand it out separately.’ We got some more stuff, but still no question paper. I looked back at the others and they also seemed puzzled.

When she was finished handing everything out, she walked over to me and I asked where the question paper was. She frowned, went through my papers, and, like me, didn’t find any questions. She did the same to two other people.

Well done CAA, you have failed to give us our question papers! Now what? They’ll fax them through. What’s the fax number? Uhm…

After much sitting around and twiddling our thumbs, we finally got our papers. Well, sort of. I took mine, and saw that “PROCEDURES” was written on the front page. I flicked through it just incase they had made a mistake on the front page, but when I saw questions on MDH (minimum decision height) and things I’ve never heard of, I knew I definitely had the wrong paper. “Sorry?” I raised my hand and the invigilator walked over to me. I pointed at the paper. “It’s the wrong subject.”

Well done CAA, you faxed us the wrong subject’s paper. After waiting an hour, we finally received the correct question papers. We couldn’t decipher some of the numbers (5’s, 6’s, and 8’s looked the same), but at least we had our papers.

The exam was horrible, and I didn’t finish in time. Needless to say, I failed it. But at least I passed Meteorology (surprisingly enough; it was also a horrible exam).

Thank you, CAA!