Air Law Flashcards
ICAO annex 1?
Personnel licensing
ICAO annex 2?
Rules of the air
ICAO annex 3?
Meteorological services for international air navigation
ICAO annex 4?
Aeronautical charts
ICAO annex 5?
Units of measurement to be used in air and ground operations
ICAO annex 6
Operation of aircraft
ICAO annex 7?
Aircraft nationality and registration marks
ICAO annex 8
Airworthiness of aircraft
ICAO Annex 9?
Facilitation
ICAO annex 10
Aeronautical telecommunications
ICAO annex 11
Air traffic services
ICAO annex 12
SAR
ICAO annex 13?
Aircraft accident investigations
ICAO Annex 14?
Aerodromes
ICAO annex 15?
AIS
ICAO annex 16?
Environmental protection (Masi)
ICAO Annex 17?
Security- safeguarding…
ICAO annex 18?
Safe transportation of dangerous goods by air
Which article requires each sovereign state to notify ICAO of any differences between national and international law?
Article 38
Regional structure of ICAO? (Number of Regions and regional offices)
7 regional offices.
9 regions.
Technical freedoms of the air?
First freedom- privilege to fly across territory of another state without landing.
Second freedom- privilege to land in another participating state for non-traffic purposes
Commercial freedoms of the air?
3rd- privilege to put down in another state traffic taken on in the state of registration
4th- privilege to take on traffic in another state destined for state of registration
5th- airline taking traffic from another state to a third state
Tokyo convention of 1963
Aims to restore and preserve control of A/C to lawful commander and ensures offences committed in the air are punished by state of registration.
Hague convention?
Terrorist hijackings should not go unpunished
Montreal convention 1971
Makes worse penalties for terrorists
Montreal convention 1999
Carrier is not liable for a passenger’s death of injury when the latter behaved stupidly. (Acts of recklessness of negligence like diving into a GE90-115B)
Rome Convention
Third parties on the ground damaged by foreign aircraft have the right of getting compensation.
IATA
Represents airlines and challenges politically limiting regulations to aid the growth of commercial aviation
ECAC
Intergovernmental organisation which promotes harmonisation of aviation regulation and a better understanding within the European territory. It gave birth to JAA of which it is now an associated body.
EASA
Taken over JAA, it is now, it ensures common safety and environmental standards at the European level. It is a legislative body.
Eurocontrol
Born to harmonise ATC services in Europe, now it has grown and represents air navigation and traffic management in Europe. It is responsible for the Air Traffic Flow Management through the CFMU
WTO ( world trade organisation)
Encourage growth and prosperity in global aviation economy and to allow competition to thrive.
Single European sky
An agreement to establish common requirements for air navigation services in the single European sky. (These include security,Human Resources, reporting systems etc.)
Hour requirements for CPL modular
200 hours of which 100 must be PIC
Cross country time required for CPL
20 hours of which 10 must be PIC and 10 PICUS. (At least one of these flights must be 300nm long with 2 full stops)
CPL instrument time requirements
10 of which 5 can be instrument ground time
CPL integrated requirements
150 hours of which 70 must be PIC.
CPL night flying time?
5 hours with 3 hours of dual instruction. 5 T/Ls
CPL+(IR) integrated requirements
Total 180 hours of which 70 PIC.
CPL+ (IR) integrated X-country requirements
50 hours including one flight of 300 nm with 2 full stops
CPL+IR integrated course instrument time required
100 hours of which 25 can be instrument ground time
ATPL instrument time required
75 hours of which up to 30 can be instrument ground time
ATPL night time requirements
100 hours as PIC or co-pilot
To what level of accuracy must ATSU clocks be within?
+- 30 seconds of UTC
What are the three subdivisions of the ATC service?
Area control service
Approach control service
Aerodrome control service
What are the three subdivisions of Air Traffic Services
Air Traffic Control Service
Flight Information Service
Alerting Service
at 15NM, what is the minimum radial seperation between two aircraft on a VOR
15 degrees
at 15NM, what is the minimum radial seperation between two aircraft on a NDB
30 degrees
at 15NM, what is the minimum radial seperation between two aircraft on a MDR radial from a location?
45 degrees
What are the weights associated with a medium wake turbulence category?
7 -136 tons
What is the radar seperation distance between a heavy WTC following a heavy WTC?
4nm
What is the radar seperation distance between a light WTC following a medium WTC?
5nm
Under time seperation, what is the seperation required between two aircraft with a speed differential of 0.01 mach?
10 minutes. -1 per additional .01 mach number differential up to 5 minutes
What is the minimum seperation between two aircraft under RNAV with RNP 20?
80nm
What is the minimum seperation between two aircraft under RNAV with RNP 10?
50nm
What is the period of validity of an ASHTAM or SNOWTAM?
24 hours
How much notice should a NOTAM be published with?
24 hours
what is a NOTAM checklist and how iften is it issued?
A listing of active NOTAMS, released monthly
What are the three parts of the AIP?
General, Enroute and Aerodromes
What are the 4 types of procedural ATC
Radar Control
Radar Vectoring
Approach Radar
Precision Approach radar
roughly what is the width of a stripe on a runway threshold?
3.75m (i.e. a runway with 12 threshold stripes is 12*3.75 = 45 m wide)
What is the radius of an Obstacle Identification Surface?
15km
Which obstacles should be marked with medium intensity lights?
those with a vertical extent over 45m
Which obstacles should be marked with high intensity lights?
those with a vertical extent over 150m
What colour are medium intensity obstacle lights?
flasing red
What colour are high intensity obstacle lights?
flashing white
At what height is an obstacle considered an en-route obstacle?
150m. These must be lit by day and night.
What is the distance between ‘distance to go’ or ‘closed runway’ markings on a runway?
300m
an aerodrome has 2 fire vehicles. What is the maximum fusilage width aircraft that it can accept?
5m. lower requires only 1 vehicle, higher requires 3 vehicles.
What is the maximum allowable fire vehicle response time?
must not exceed 3 minutes from initial call to foaming.
What colour are low intensity obstacle lights?
steady red
What is a tall obstacle, and how should it be marked?
any obstacle over 45m, which should be marked with intermediate lights, spacing up to 45m
How many copies of the cargo manifest can a state demand?
three
How far in andvance should a state recieve a flight plan of an aircraft that intends to land at that state?
2 hours
What is the maximun length of time that a passenger may remain in the transit lounge?
2 days
ICAO must be notified of any accident involving an aircraft over a certain weight. what is this weight?
> 2250kg
How often can snowtams & ashtams be released?
every 6 hours
what is the legal alcohol limit for aircrew on flying duty?
0.2 promille (20mg/100ml)
Who is responsible for producing a structural integrity/corrosion control program?
The state of design
At what point is an injury considered serious?
if it leads to 2 days hospitalisation within 7 days
or if there are any injuries to internal organs
