Blog – Exam Day Air Law 03/04/2022
After several weeks of night classes, and practice exams, I booked the Air Law exam, the last of six theory exams required for attaining your PPL (Private Pilots License) in NZ.
This exam covers a large list of subjects:
Aviation Legislation
- Definitions
- Abbreviations
Personnel Licensing
- Requirements for Licences and Ratings
- Currency and Recency
- Medical Requirements
Airworthiness of Aircraft and Aircraft Equipment
- Documentation
- Aircraft Maintenance
- Instruments and Avionics
- Equipment
General Operating and Flight Rules
- General Operating Requirements
- General Operating Restrictions
- General Meteorological Requirements and Restrictions
Flight Planning and Preparation
- Flight Preparation
- Fuel Requirements
- Flight Plans
Air Traffic Services
- Communications
- Clearances
- Separation
- Radar Services
Airspace; Aerodromes; and Heliports
- Altimetry
- Cruising Levels
- Transponders
- Airspace
- Aerodromes and Heliports
- Carriage of Dangerous Goods
Emergencies; Incidents; and Accidents
- Responsibilities of Pilots
- Communications and Equipment
The entire Syllabus can be found at https://www.aviation.govt.nz/assets/publications/pilot-syllabus-assistance-archive/Subject_4_AC61-3_rev_12.pdf
I booked this exam at my local Aspeq Examination Centre for Tuesday 03/04/2022.
This exam was a 35 question 70 minute multi-choice online exam.
For this exam I studied long and hard as fellow flyers at the Aero club had said that they had “only just scraped thru” and had some real stinkers of questions.
I was fairly confident going into this one as I had really hammered the test exams I found online. However anything can, and usually does, happen in these exams.
The exam itself was indeed “hard” with many questions pertaining to quite obscure and little known parts of the syllabus.
Some questions were designed to really test your knowledge. Questions around “Air Event practices”, and others on obsolete runway markings. I used logic and safety first as my mantra on the very hard questions. Like all previous exams, I stayed until 1 min from the end going over and over my answers.
I had to wait 24hrs for the results to come up on my profile but I was extremely pleased to pass with an amazing 94%.
After checking on the sections in which I didn’t do well, I was only slightly off on the 2 failed questions.
All theory exams done and dusted! Just the “English Level 6 Proficiency Demonstration” test and the big “flight test” to go.
Until next time….
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Blog – Exam Day – Air Law 03/04/2022