Everything, answered.

The whole thing. The private-pilot syllabus is examined in a single sitting, the PPLA, and each code here opens one full-length mock of it: sixty questions across flight rules and air law, meteorology, navigation, human factors, engines and systems, aerodynamics, loading and performance, and radiotelephony.

Three hours and thirty minutes, seventy per cent to pass. CASA does not publish the question count; candidates report 55 to 60, so the mock is sixty questions on the same 210-minute clock. Some ask you to type a number rather than pick an option.

A calculator, or a flight computer if you have one. That is all. You do not need to buy charts, documents or a subscription to anything: every figure a question depends on is printed in the question, and the standing data — the VMC table, VFR cruising levels, fuel reserves, the altimetry and loading constants — is in a reference panel you can open inside the exam. The real sitting is open book, with the AIP, ERSA, the WACs, CAR and CASR, the Part 91 MOS and the VFRG on the desk; if you own those, sit the mock with them out, because finding things quickly is half the exam.

No. CASA's questions are confidential and no preparation provider has them. Ours are written to Schedule 3 of the Part 61 Manual of Standards, the fourteen units the PPLA examines, and each one is tagged with the unit and item it tests. Pass these consistently and you know the syllabus.

A Knowledge Deficiency Report: the list of syllabus items you answered wrongly, issued with your result. Your flight-test examiner goes through it with you, so every item on it has to be learned before the test. The de-brief here cites the same Part 61 MOS units and items, which makes it the same list, a few weeks early.

A code is a key to one mock exam. Buy a code, open the exam centre, enter it and the exam starts. The moment you launch, the code is activated and you have 24 hours to finish and submit; when you submit, the code is used.

Unused codes never expire. Buy three today and use the last one next year. Once you activate a code by launching an exam the 24-hour window starts, and if the exam is not submitted inside it, that code is void.

No. When you buy, we ask for the email address your codes should go to. When you launch a paid mock, we ask where the de-brief should go. That is all: nothing to sign up for and no password to remember.

Every code draws a fresh exam from the bank with the options shuffled, so a second code is a different exam, not a repeat. That is the reason to buy more than one: three codes are $34.99 and six are $54.99, against $14.99 for one. All prices are in Australian dollars, and one sitting of the real PPLA is $217.24.

Codes are emailed automatically the moment Stripe confirms payment, to the address you typed at checkout. Check spam, junk and the promotions tab first. If nothing has arrived after ten minutes, email support with the address you used and roughly when you paid, and we will sort it out.

Yes. The free exam is a fixed set of twelve questions on a forty-minute clock, two of them type-a-number, run on the same system with the same on-screen de-brief, and there is no sign-up. The two things you do not get are a fresh draw each time and the emailed copy of the de-brief.

Instead of four options you get a box and a unit. Work the answer on your own flight computer or calculator and type the number; the question tells you how to round. Each one is marked inside a stated tolerance, so a reading a little either side of ours still counts, and the de-brief shows the working.

No. The clock runs from launch to submit, turning amber with ten minutes left and red with one. Your answers and the time remaining are saved as you go in the browser you are using, so if the page reloads, the connection drops or the battery dies, re-enter the same code on the same device and browser and you are back where you were. That only holds inside the 24-hour activation window.

Yes. The answer sheet down the side jumps you to any question, and every question has a flag for the ones you want another look at before you submit.

Your score and pass or fail against seventy per cent come up straight away, with a breakdown by area so you can see where the marks went. Under it is the de-brief: every question you got wrong, what you answered, the correct answer, the reasoning and the Part 61 MOS reference. On a paid mock the same de-brief is emailed to the address you gave when you launched.

The exam submits itself when the clock hits zero and is marked on whatever you have answered, exactly as the real sitting would be.

Yes. Payment happens on Stripe's hosted checkout page, so your card details go to Stripe over an encrypted connection and never reach our servers. All we receive back is a confirmation and the email address the codes go to.

Codes are digital and delivered instantly, so we do not generally refund a change of mind. If a code does not work or a technical fault stops you using the service, you get a replacement or a full refund, as the Australian Consumer Law requires. Email support and it gets sorted.

It sends your codes and your de-brief and lets you resume an exam you have started, and nothing else. No marketing, and we do not sell data. Stripe handles the payment, so we never see your card number. The full policy is linked in the footer.