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Examiners conducting the RPP flight test will notice that pilot navigation is no longer a four-part item.
For this test, Exercise 23 requires the examiner to assess only one area and assign the one mark for
navigation.
The Aim of this item is to confirm that the candidate can effectively navigate from one place to
another (map read).
The examiner will assign a destination and the candidate will carry out this flight towards that destination
at altitude. Remember this is not a test of pure navigational skills but is an assessment of ability to proceed
to a destination using mental dead reckoning and natural geographic features such as roads, railway tracks etc.,
if they are available. Rulers, notched pencils, protractors, and computers will not be used for this
procedure.
Care must be taken with respect to this item. The candidates are not expected to be aware of their
exact location after carrying out a series of other high altitude flight test
manoeuvres. The examiner must allow time, and if required, be of some assistance while the candidate arranges
the chart and determines their exact location and regains orientation. Following
this procedure the examiner will assign the destination.
With respect to the estimated time of arrival and the actual time of arrival at the destination, no hard
numbers have been established in the criteria. Examiners may accept an estimated time of arrival for this
item that is reasonable, and would ensure that a successful trip to the chosen destination could be made. Many
examiners have the candidate fly the complete flight to the selected site in order to carry out a precautionary
landing at that site. In this case, the site may be an airstrip that is unfamiliar to the candidate.
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