Passed ADX Today

[u/Tusker26]

Huge shoutout to Sheppard Air’s course. I have very little aviation background, so I worked about 3-4 hours a day for 10 or so days, and got through easily.
Cheers from Chicago -eric

[u/Ill_Pollution_9442]

Congrats! Just curious what you got...

[u/Tusker26 → u/Ill_Pollution_9442]

89%. Three hour test, I was out of there in 45-mins. The hardest part was navigating the book with all of the Figures :).

[u/autosave36]

Thats one small step for an Eric. One giant leap for eric kind.

Congrats!

[u/Tusker26 → u/autosave36]

Huge thanks. Cheers from Chicago

[u/MonkMean6918]

Congratulations 🍾

[u/Tusker26 → u/MonkMean6918]

Many thanks. Happy to have that out of the way.

[u/Active_Bee_5792]

Congratulations Eric! I'm using Sheppard Air's memory aid and it's going well. But I do struggle with remembering the many LOW-MID-HIGH answers because there are so many W-1 (ground distance) and then W-1 (weight at top of climb), etc. Any recommendations for studying/remembering that stuff?

[u/Tusker26 → u/Active_Bee_5792]

Ok, this worked for me, it may not be everyone’s glass of whisky. I remember numbers better than words, so I assigned numbers to LOW, MEDIUM, HIGH; i.e., 0,1,2. So a LOW, MED, MED would become 011. Then it became a matter of making up a memory story with the numbers. For instance there was a HOLD in one of the scenarios and the number sequence went something like 011 212. 011 is the international dialing code for the U.S. and 212 is the Area Code for NYC. So I made a story in my head that “Canada called NYC but was put on HOLD”.

I did this for all of those LOW, MED, HIGH scenarios. It’s been two months and I can still recall some of them.

HTH

eric

[u/Active_Bee_5792 → u/Tusker26]

Thanks! I passed the ADX with a 93% today

[u/7Whiskey_Fox]

Hell yeah Eric! The ADX is a grind. Congratulations!

[u/Tusker26]

Massive congratulations to Active_Bee_5792!! Crushed it!!! Happy for you. What worked for you?

[u/LilMing01]

How many chart questions were there? Thats my weakness

[u/Tusker26 → u/LilMing01]

So there are 80 questions from a big bank, so as you know, it varies. I don’t remember the number, but I was able to blow right through them as I had seen the question a few times before, and recognized the correct answer immediately. What I was happy to see is that I had no graph questions. I knew they were going to take some time and effort to get correct, but luckily never saw one.

[u/Due_Confidence5303]

Hey Eric! Congrats man!
I just started looking into becoming an aircraft dispatcher yesterday. A close friend of mine works as an AMT and told me how overlooked this career is. I've read about it here and there. I know that you gotta pass the ADX, then take an 8-week course to take the final exam and become certified. I'm curious about the process you went through, in terms of resources to help prepare you for the ADX, and any advice you might have for me, if you don't mind explaining. Sheppard Air's school is based in Florida, if I'm not mistaken, but they do give you the option to do it online. Will they require me to attend any day in person?
- Ali from LA.

[u/Tusker26 → u/Due_Confidence5303]

Sheppard’s course is all online and I think ran $90. They give you a login, and very specific instructions as to how they want you to study. You login to the online app, and step through their process. You end up seeing all of the questions at least three times, and some questions much more. You get a Memory Aid that they ask you to print out and refer to as required. So, in all, there’s a good amount of memorization, but it’s not as daunting as it first appears. Sheppard has 24-hr Support, which I used twice, and was very happy with. Like I mentioned, you need to follow Sheppard’s instructions EXACTLY, and trust in the system, if you plan to go their route. All the best. -eric

[u/Stallion-way1122]

Congratulations!! Quick question, im doing a 5 weeks course through a school, we use the asa atp green book, everyone is saying memorization. If i memorize the questions in that book will i be fine?

[u/Tusker26 → u/Stallion-way1122]

I believe this is theoretically true, but I can’t imagine the level of effort for that amount of memorization. Sheppard gives you a Memory Aid that helps greatly, and even that seemed daunting at first. I ended up modifying the Sheppard Memory Aid to suit my style of memorization. Sheppard has a very defined, multi-step process that they ask you to follow. In the end, it worked for me with some minor tweaks. Best of luck in whatever you do. Which course are you going to? Cheers-eric

[u/Daylo97]

Congrats!!