PPL air law 010: practice questions and syllabus
The EASA PPL syllabus builds air law around the ICAO Annexes: the Chicago Convention, licensing (Annex 1), the rules of the air (Annex 2), air traffic services, aeronautical information, aerodromes, then national law. You answer it with rules rather than calculations: right of way, VMC minima, altimeter setting, runway lights. Our bank has 603 questions on this subject.
- explained questions in the bank
- 603
- pass mark per paper (EASA)
- 75 %
What the syllabus covers
The topics of the EASA syllabus for this subject, with what each one lists.
1International law
Chicago Convention (air navigation, ICAO); Annexes 7 and 8 on nationality, registration marks and airworthiness.
2Licensing
ICAO Annex 1, in relation to Part-FCL and Part-MED.
3Rules of the air
Annex 2: definitions, general rules, visual flight rules, signals and interception of civil aircraft.
4Air navigation procedures
altimeter setting, transponder procedures, phraseology.
5Air traffic services
Annex 11 and Doc 4444: aerodrome control, radar services, flight information and alerting services, emergencies, communication failure.
6Aeronautical information
Annex 15: AIP, NOTAM, AIRAC, AIC.
7Aerodromes
Annex 14: aerodrome data, visual aids (indicators, markings, lights, signs, markers), marking of obstacles, rescue and firefighting.
8Search and rescue, security, investigation
Annexes 12, 17 and 13: pilot-in-command procedures, signals, security, definitions for accident investigation.
9National law
national law and its differences from the ICAO Annexes and EU regulations.
Source: EASA, Easy Access Rules for Aircrew (AMC to Part-FCL)
The illustrated course
To understand before you answer: 13 chapters and 120 key points, 120 of them with a diagram or an illustration. The first chapter, « The regulatory framework: ICAO, Europe, France », is free to read.
- The regulatory framework: ICAO, Europe, France
- Licences, ratings and medical certificate
- The aircraft and its documents
- Airspace and air traffic services
- VMC and special VFR
- Minimum overflight heights
- Priorities and collision avoidance
- Altimeter settings and cruising levels
- The aerodrome: runways, markings, lights and signals area
- Aerodrome traffic, clearances and signals
- Flight preparation and flight plan
- Transponder, emergencies, accidents and penalties
- LAPL, medical, language proficiency and additional ratings
4 questions to practise
Taken from the site's English bank and checked one by one. Read the question, choose your answer, then open the explanation. Like every explanation on the site, they may contain errors.
Question 1 · 2 Licensing
The validity of the private pilot license:
- Ais 5 years.
- Bis 24 months (12 months for pilots over 40 years old).
- Cis permanent.
- Ddepends on the validity of the medical certificate and the ratings held.
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Answer: D. depends on the validity of the medical certificate and the ratings held.
Under FCL.040 (Regulation (EU) No 1178/2011), exercising the privileges of a licence depends on the validity of the ratings it contains and of the medical certificate. It is the only one of the four answers that says so.
Question 2 · 3 Rules of the air
An aircraft approaches from your right, at the same level as you, on a converging course:
- Ayou have the right of way.
- Byou must give way to it.
- Cyou must give way to it only if it is larger.
- Dyou must give way to it only if it is faster.
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Answer: B. you must give way to it.
Right-of-way rule of the rules of the air (SERA.3210(c)(2)): when two aircraft are converging at approximately the same level, the one that has the other on its right shall give way. The exceptions depend on category (power-driven aircraft give way to airships, gliders and balloons), not on size or speed.
Question 3 · 4 Air navigation procedures
While descending, at the transition level FL065, you set your altimeter to QNH 1023. The altimeter will then indicate:
- A6500 ft.
- B6200 ft.
- C6800 ft.
- D6415 ft.
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Answer: C. 6800 ft.
At the transition level, the altimeter setting is changed from standard (1013 hPa) to QNH. Here the setting is 10 hPa higher (1023 instead of 1013): at about 30 ft per hPa, the reading rises by about 300 ft, from 6,500 ft to 6,800 ft.
Question 4 · 7 Aerodromes
The lights marking the threshold and the far end of the runway in use are respectively:
- Ared - green.
- Bblue - white.
- Cgreen - red.
- Dwhite - green.
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Answer: C. green - red.
The runway threshold is marked by green unidirectional lights, visible in the direction of approach (CS ADR-DSN.M.680); the runway end is marked by red lights (CS ADR-DSN.M.685). Runway edge lights are white (CS ADR-DSN.M.675).
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How to approach this subject
The same rules come back in different forms: the aircraft that has the other on its right has right of way, visibility and distance-from-cloud minima, airspace classes, runway lights and markings, altimeter setting when crossing the transition altitude. Write each rule down with a worked example.
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