After putting it off, till I forgot what I learned in the Jeppeson Ground School, and then making a resolve to not fly again until I passed the written, I was at 27 hrs and still no written.

I spent the big bucks on FlightTech's 30 hour cassette tape series, listened each morning on the way to work and again on the way home (45-60 min each way), and today took the written.

I passed with a 98%, missing a question that I did not expect to be on the test. The FlightTech tapes had warned me not to think too hard about any question, but I was sure that a boat and a seaplane on

crossing paths must be the exception to the right has right rule or why else would it be on the test. Well, I was wrong. FAR 91.115 vessel on the right, either boat or seaplane, has right of way.

I was discussing the question with a fellow worker that teaches Coast Guard boating classes. Supposedly, the Coast Guard teaches that the seaplane is bottom totem, giving way to all other watercraft, so I would have gotten 100 if he were grading the exam.

Oh, well, next time I see a boat out on runway 9, I'll know what to do.