Air Law Flashcards
What are the requirements to act as a flight crew member?
- Must hold appropriate permit, license or rating
- Must be VALID appropriate license or rating
- Appropriate medical certificate
- Must be able to produce the license or ratings when exercising the privileges’
License, permit, rating, VALID license, permit, rating, medical certificate, produce the license or ratings
No holder of a flight crew permit, license or rating, OTHER THAN THE HOLDER OF A FLIGHT ENGINEER LICENSE, shall exercise the privileges of the permit, license or rating unless:
- Act as PIC within the last 5 years
Within 12 months before the flight:
- Completed a flight review
- Flight instructor who conducted the flight review is satisfied and signs it off
- Pass the appropriate flight review
Controllers apply a radar separation minima of ___ miles between a preceding IFR/VFR category H aircraft and a category M aircraft vectored directly behind it and at less than 1,000 ft during any phase of flight.
5 miles.
According to the CARs, the operator of an aircraft is:
The person who has possession of the aircraft.
A flight data recorder is required in:
- A multi-engine powered aircraft for which a type certificate has been issued authorizing the transport of CARGO ONLY and operated under Subpart 5 of part VII (700 series operations in CARs)
- A multi-engine turbine-powered aeroplane for which a type certificate has been issued authorizing the transport of 30 or fewer passengers and configured for 20 to 30 passenger seats
- A multi-engine turbine-powered aircraft for which a type certificate has been issued authorizing the transport of MORE THAN 30 PASSEGNERS
While being vectored with a speed adjustment from ATC, maximum speed tolerance is:
+/- 10 KIAS
North Atlantic Minimum Navigation Performance Specification Airspace dimensions:
FL285 - FL420
What is TODA of a runway?
The length of the takeoff run available plus the length of the clearway, if provided.
VFR OTT provisions for weather:
Basic provisions:
- Only during DAYTIME and CRUISE portion of flight
- 1,000ft vertically from any cloud
- When flying between layers, 5,00ft between cloud layers minimum
- Visibility must be at least 5nm
Forecast provisions:
- Clouds must be scattered or better
- Ground visibility 5nm
- No fog, precip, thunderstorm, snow, blowing snow
At your ETA:
> 1hr before to 2hrs after your ETA via a TAF
> 1hr before to 3hrs after your ETA via a GFA
What is a high performance airplane?
- Minimum crew of 1
- Vne 250 KIAS or greater
- Vso 80 KIAS or greater
Requirements to fly a high performance airplane:
- Complete ground training
- Complete flight training
- 200hrs on aeroplanes
- Complete qualifying flight
HIGH performance, LOW maintenance: ground, flight, 200 airplanes, qualifying flight
Aeroplanes requiring a minimum crew of 2 requirements:
- Complete ground and flight training program
- Obtain 70% on IATRA within 24 months preceding application
- Complete flight training
- 250 hours PIC time
- Pass PPC within 12 months preceding the application for the type rating
Ground & flight, 70% IATRA, flight training, 250 PIC, PPC 12 months
Oxygen needed between 10,000 and 13,000ft :
- Oxygen for flight crew for whole time
- Oxygen for 10% (but not less than 1 pax) of the passengers for the duration over 30mins
Flight crew member on call:
Available to report for duty on one hour or less
Flight crew member on reserve:
Report for duty in one or more hours.
Flight crew member on standby:
Remain at a specified location to be available for duty on one or less hours.
Flight duty time:
Group 1 - Heavy turbulence classification:
MTOW weight of 300,000lbs or more
Group 2 - Medium turbulence classification:
MTOW weight between 15,500lbs and 300,000lbs
Group 3 - Light turbulence classification:
MTOW weight up to 15,500lbs
Radar environment - heavy following heavy:
4 miles separation
Radar environment - light following heavy:
6 miles separation
Radar environment - medium following heavy:
5 miles separation
Radar environment - light following medium
4 miles separation
Maximum flight time of a flight crew member:
1,000 hours in any consecutive 365 days
300 hours in any 90 consecutive days
112 hours in any 30 consecutive days
60 hours in any 7 days
8 hours in any 24 consecutive hours of single pilot IFR
1,000, 300, 112. YEAR, MONTHS, MONTH
What should you squawk when VFR at and below 12,500’?
1200.
What should you squawk when VFR above 12,500’?
1400.
Within the NCA, flights operating on predominately north or south tracks shall report over reporting line points formed by the intersection of parallels of latitude spaced at _ intervals expressed in latitude.
20 degrees.
Within non-radar airspace, when ATC temporarily suspends RVSM within selected areas and/or altitudes due to adverse weather conditions, the minimum vertical separation between two aircraft facing in opposite directions will be __ feet, and the minimum vertical separation between two aircraft facing the same direction will be ____ feet.
2,000ft
4,000ft
What is a CAT III A approach?
A category III A approach is a precision instrument approach and landing with no decision height or a decision height lower than 100ft (30m) and a runway visual range not less than 700ft (200m).
What is a CAT III B approach?
A category III B approach is a precision approach and landing with no decision height or a decision height lower than 50ft (15m) and a runway visual range less than 700ft (200m), but not less than 150ft (50m).
What is a CAT III C approach?
A category III C approach is a precision approach and landing with no decision height and no runway visual range limitation.
The BEST one with no limitations.
Types of Air operators:
701 - Foreign Air Operations
702 - Aerial Work
703 - Air Taxi
704 - Commuter
705 - Airline
706 - Aircraft Maintenance Requirements for Air Operators
What is an air taxi operation?
703 - Air Taxi
- All single-engine aircraft
- Multi-engine aircraft with a MCTOW of 19,000lbs or less AND a passenger seating configuration of 9 or less
- Any other aircraft authorized by minister
ALL single-engine aircraft.
MULTI-ENGINE AIRCRAFT: MCTOW 19,000lbs, 9 passengers or less