Online Ground School (cont.)

Administration

Once you have paid the required fee, we will immediately send you a confirmation of payment. Then, within 24 hours of sending your confirmation, you will be e-mailed separately a personal, confidential user access name and password. Your payment of the registration fee entitles you to unlimited, single user access to the appropriate online course for the selected subscription term, as counted from the day we e-mail your password and user-name. Following expiry of the subscription term, your registration will expire. If you wish to continue completing our online ground school beyond the expired term, you will have to re-register for another subscription term at our published rates. Your user-name and password are confidential and you agree as a condition of using our service that you will protect this private information and will not give away, transmit or divulge your user-name and/or password to third parties nor permit any non-registered user to access our service using your credentials.

Course Content and Structure

Our online ground school courses each consist of hundreds of sequenced questions that are programmed for self learning. Following each question frame is a link to the answer for that question, followed by a link to the next question. All questions have been assembled and grouped into major sections such as Air Law, Navigation, Theory of Flight, Flight Operations, Aviation Weather etc. Those that complete all questions in sequence and that carefully review and learn the answers and explanations provided will have comprehensively covered all the required, mandatory subject areas for the Canadian aviation licence or rating sought. Additionally, for each of our online courses, multiple sets of automated, self grading quizzes have been provided, along with a complete, simulated Transport Canada final exam (four final exams are provided in the case of our Aeroplane ATPL/IATRA/FAAAA online course). Click here for a sample question/answer that will show the basic format of our online ground schools.

Web Browsers, Technical Requirements

Our online courses do not depend on or require any sophisticated web features and should run fine on all html capable browsers such as Internet Explorer, Netscape or AOL. Other than having a standard internet web browser, no secondary software of any kind needs to be separately purchased, downloaded, installed or configured to complete our online courses. We have intentionally kept our online courses very modest in terms of memory needs and operating system requirements. Even rudimentary, earlier generation IBM compatable PC's or Macintosh computers having a basic phone modem should provide ample access and functionality to complete our online courses.

It would be helpful (but not mandatory) if your web browser is "JavaScript" capable, because the automated scoring feature of the quizzes and final exams and count-down timer features of our online courses are based on JavaScript applications. Even if your internet browser is not JavaScript capable nor JavaScript enabled, you can still self-mark the quizzes and final exams using the answer keys provided, and time the final exams by using a simple timepiece. The "accept cookies" feature of internet web browsers is not necessary and need not be enabled for purposes of completing our-line courses.

Reference Texts

While completing our online ground school, users will require our Culhane reference texts to access the many required tables, charts and illustrations referred to in the appropriate online course. Our reference texts also serve as important background material since all questions in our online courses have been cross referenced to our texts so as to facilitate further study. The specific Culhane reference texts for each of our online ground school courses are as follows:

• Student Pilot/PSTAR Online Ground School
  Culhane Private Pilot and Recreational Pilot Ground School Course, current edition
• Private Pilot Online Ground School:
  Culhane Private Pilot and Recreational Pilot Ground School Course, current edition
• Commercial Pilot Online Ground School:
  Culhane Commercial Pilot Ground School Course, current edition
• Airline Transport and IATRA Online Ground School:
  Culhane Airline Transport and IATRA Ground School Course, current edition
• Commercial Pilot - Helicopter Online Ground School:
  Culhane Helicopter Pilot Ground School Course, current edition

NOTE: The above Culhane Ground School Course textbooks have everything needed to complete our online courses and are stand alone references: no other publications are required! The only secondary publications that we recommend are the Culhane Written Test Books, which consist of multiple sets of supplemental, cross referenced practise exams.

NOTE 2: Our ATPL/IATRA/FAAAA Online Course is presented from the assumption that the user is CURRENT to the CPL level of knowledge. If your CPL baseline knowledge is weak or out of date, or if you have never achieved the CPL standard, we recommend that you first complete our Commercial Pilot level course prior to commencing your studies for the ATPL/IATRA/FAAAA.

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