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Are there airship, balloon, or helicopter questions on the AGI test?

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I am studying to take the Ground Instructor Advanced exam.  The Prepware from ASA seems to contain a lot of non airplane related questions.  Questions about balloons, helicopters, and even the Goodyear blimp (no lie).   I took a look at the FAA Exam guide http://www.faa.gov/training_testing/testing/test_guides/media/FAA-G-8082-7I.pdf and in the list of topics covered in the AGI (page 34 onward), there is no mention of the need to know anything about helicopters, blimps, or balloons.  There are only topics about weather, general aviation knowledge, airplanes, and a couple things on gliders which I am not too concerned about.     The Gleim Flight/Ground Instructor exam guide has a  selling point that "Only airplane  related questions are included." The bottom line is that I am confused as to exactly what I need to be focusing on.  Airplanes obviously, but do I really need to know about helicopters, or the Goodyear blimp?    If anyone out there who has taken this exam could give some guidance, that would be great. 

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  1. Kris Kortokrax on Jan 27, 2015

    When you receive a Ground Instructor certificate with an Advanced rating, you are not limited to teaching airplane only ground school.

    There may be some questions about other categories or classes.

    I took the ground instructor tests in 1986 and have no recollection of the questions.

    Nowadays, the tests are given on computers and a pseudo-random set of questions can be pulled from the question pool for any given test.

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  2. Nibake on Jan 30, 2015

    Yes. Helicopter, gyrocopter, balloon, airship, and others are all fair game.

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  3. Chris Burkhardt on Feb 08, 2015

    I passed the AGI test last week. There were no questions outside of airplane. I did have RMI and ADF questions.

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  4. Jordan Cobb on Feb 09, 2015

    I just passed it today. All airplane questions, nothing that wasn’t outside the boundaries of the FAA exam guide or the sample test from the FAA website. Why some companys put questions about blimps on their test prep software is a mystery to me.

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