The real exam felt like a holiday.

Three weeks later, Eva discovered the Evo Forum. A legend lived there: User "Captain_Retired_67" had solved every single one of Evo’s 12,000 questions. His post was pinned: “Evo is 30% harder than the real exam. If you can score 85% here, you will score 95% in Brussels.”

But Eva learned the truth. Evo had a secret weapon:

Eva, a 23-year-old cadet, stared at her laptop screen. On it was the Evo ATPL dashboard. The timer read:

But that night, she had a nightmare. She was floating in a dark void. A robotic voice said: "New question. You are a passenger in a hot air balloon. The burner fails. The wind is 270/12. You have no radio. The nearest airfield is a grass strip with runway 09/27. Which of the following four identical answers is the MOST correct?"

She remembered Evo. Evo would have asked: “Given a temperature of 15°C at sea level, a pressure of 1013, and a dew point of 10°C, calculate the freezing level, but only if the SALR is 1.98°C per 1000ft, and there is an inversion layer at 6000ft.”