About The Flying Roo

One exam. Practised properly.

A full-length mock of the PPLA, sat on the clock you will sit on the day, and a de-brief that names the Part 61 MOS item behind every question you get wrong. That is the whole product. There is no subscription and no account.

669Questions written
to the Part 61 MOS
67Type-a-number
items in the bank
1 in 3Candidates fail
the real exam
$14.99One full-length
mock exam
01The exam

Three and a half hours, and that is the lot.

The PPLA is booked through PEXO and sat at an exam centre: about sixty questions, multiple choice with a number to type in where the answer is a figure, seventy per cent to pass. It is open book, so the AIP, ERSA, the charts, CAR and CASR, the Part 91 MOS and the VFRG are all on the desk with you, along with a flight computer and a basic calculator.

Open book is not the relief it sounds like. The clock is the examiner. If you are learning where things live in ERSA on the day, you will run out of time long before you run out of questions.

A mock here does not ask you to own any of that. Every figure a question depends on is printed with the question, and the standing data you would otherwise look up — the VMC table, cruising levels, fuel reserves, the altimetry and loading constants — sits in a reference panel inside the exam, sourced from those same documents.

Between 2020 and 2025, the pass rate sat between 62 and 67 per cent. About one candidate in three books it again, pays the $217.24 again, and waits again. That is what the practice is really priced against.

Score between 50 and 100 per cent and you are issued a Knowledge Deficiency Report: the list of MOS items you got wrong. Your flight-test examiner works through that list with you, so every line on it has to be learned before the test. Score 50 or less and you are referred back to the whole syllabus.

02Why it exists

The wrong answers are the useful part.

Question banks for the PPLA have been around for years and some of them are good. What was harder to find was one that treated a wrong answer as the point: not just which option was right, but why, with the unit and item to go and read, so a missed question turns into a page of revision instead of a shrug.

So the de-brief came first and everything else followed from it. A full-length mock, because a de-brief is only worth having across a whole sitting. A fresh draw every time, because a paper you can memorise teaches you the paper. And a price per exam low enough that sitting a second one is an easy decision rather than a budget meeting.

03How a mock is built

Written, drawn, marked.

  1. Written
    To Schedule 3 of the Part 61 MOS

    Fourteen units, 338 numbered knowledge items. Every question carries the item it tests, checked against the current CASR, CAR, Part 91 MOS, AIP, ERSA and VFRG. The numbering is the numbering your KDR uses.

  2. Drawn
    Fresh on the server, every launch

    Sixty questions pulled to a fixed split across the eight areas the moment you enter a code, with the options shuffled. Two codes are two different exams.

  3. Marked
    Against the seventy per cent

    Typed numbers are marked inside a stated tolerance, so a reading a little either side of ours still counts. Score on screen the moment you submit, then the de-brief, and on a paid mock a copy in your inbox.

04Where we stand

Independent, and plain about it.

The Flying Roo is a study aid. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or approved by CASA, the exam provider, Airservices Australia or any flight training organisation, and it is not a substitute for ground instruction or for the current rules, MOS and AIP. The questions and the explanations are our own.

Regulations change. If a question here and a current document disagree, the document wins and we want to hear about it: corrections get read and the bank gets fixed.

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Terms and conditions

01General terms

By purchasing or using an access code you agree to these terms. They are a binding agreement between you and The Flying Roo. If you do not agree, do not use the service.

02Access codes

The service is pay-as-you-go. Each access code works as follows:

  • One code, one exam. A code opens exactly one full-length mock exam. The code is consumed when the exam is submitted and cannot be reused.
  • 24-hour window. Unused codes never expire. Once a code is activated, that is, an exam is launched with it, the exam must be completed within 24 hours or the code lapses.
  • No pause. The clock cannot be paused. If the browser closes or the connection drops, your progress and the remaining time are saved and the exam can be resumed with the same code on the same device within the 24-hour window.
  • Personal use. Codes are for the use of the purchaser or the person they are bought for. They may not be resold.

03Aviation disclaimer and limitation of liability

The Flying Roo is an independent study aid for the CASA Private Pilot Licence (aeroplane) theory examination. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or approved by the Civil Aviation Safety Authority, Airservices Australia or Aspeq. Passing a mock exam here is not a guarantee of passing the official examination.

Every effort is made to keep the question bank accurate, but the regulations, Manuals of Standards, AIP and ERSA change. The bank does not replace the current documents, your flying school or your instructor. To the extent permitted by law, The Flying Roo accepts no liability for any loss arising from reliance on this service.

04Refunds and consumer guarantees

Codes are digital content delivered immediately, so we do not generally refund a change of mind. Nothing in these terms limits your rights under the Australian Consumer Law: if a technical fault on our side stops you using a code, you get a replacement code or a full refund. Email support and it gets sorted.

05Intellectual property and acceptable use

The question bank, explanations and interface are the property of The Flying Roo. You may not copy, scrape, record or redistribute questions or rationales. Attempts to bypass the access-code system or automate the service may result in codes being cancelled without refund.

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Privacy policy

01Introduction

This policy sets out what The Flying Roo ("we", "us") collects and how it is used, in line with the Australian Privacy Principles. The short version: we collect the minimum needed to run the service and we do not sell any of it.

02What we collect

  • Your email address, to deliver access codes, send your de-brief and let you resume an exam you have started.
  • Exam data, your answers, score and time remaining, so an interrupted exam can be resumed and your de-brief can be produced.

03Payment information

We do not see or store your card details. Payment happens on Stripe's hosted checkout page. We receive a confirmation that payment succeeded and the email address to send the codes to.

04Third-party services

The service runs on providers who may process your data on our behalf:

  • Google Firebase. Hosting, database and the functions that draw your exam.
  • Stripe. Payment processing.
  • Brevo. Transactional email: your codes and your de-brief.
  • Google Analytics. Anonymous usage statistics (pages visited, device type, purchases) so we can see how the site is used.

05Retention and use

Your email address is used for transactional messages only. Codes and the exam data attached to them are kept so that de-briefs can be re-sent and disputes resolved. We do not send marketing email and we do not share your details with advertisers.

06Your rights

You can ask for a copy of the personal information we hold about you and ask for it to be corrected or deleted. Email support@theflyingroo.au.

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