SimplyATPL › 061 General Navigation
General Navigation (061) covers the form of the earth, magnetism and compasses, direction and distance, time and time conversion, chart projections, dead reckoning with the navigation computer, and in-flight navigation.
Free, no sign-up. The practice paper uses the question count and time limit from CAA guidance for this subject. Check the CAA for the current figures before your exam.
It is calculation-heavy and the paper is long for its number of questions. Rhumb lines and great circles, convergency, departure and time zones each have a method that becomes quick with practice.
In the practice desk you can sit a full 55-question paper under exam conditions, or drill one syllabus topic at a time. Questions you miss come back after 1, 3, 7, 16 and 35 days, so weak areas get repeated until they stick.
Every topic below has practice questions, and you can drill any of them on its own.
Five questions from the bank. Each one in the practice desk has a worked explanation like these.
Answer: D. 000°
It flies due north to the pole, then due south.
Answer: B. 0900
45° of longitude is 3 hours, and west is behind UTC.
Common trap: "Longitude west, UTC best": UTC is later than local time in the west.
Answer: D. A line joining places of zero magnetic variation
Answer: D. The WGS 84 ellipsoid
It is slightly flattened at the poles, by about 1/298.
Answer: A. It goes back one day