Air Regulations, drawn out

The DGCA Air Regulations syllabus as flowcharts, flight paths and clean visuals. Tap, trace and test yourself.

Air Regulations

• Chapter 1: International Organisations and Conventions Where the law of the air comes from: the Chicago Convention, how ICAO makes and publishes rules, the treaties on crime and compensation, and who applies them in India.
• Chapter 2: Aircraft Nationality and Registration Marks How every aircraft carries its identity: the marks painted on it, the plate fixed to it, and India's rules for registering, cancelling and leasing it.
• Chapter 3: Rules of the Air The everyday rules of flying: who gives way, when to file, what to do when the radio dies, and how much weather you need to fly VFR.
• Chapter 4: Air Traffic Services Who looks after you in the air, how much protection each block of airspace gives, and what happens when an aircraft goes silent.
• Chapter 5: Separation Methods and Minima How controllers keep aircraft apart: by height, by track, by time or distance along the route, or on radar, and the exact minimum for each.
• Chapter 6: Separation in the Vicinity of Aerodromes How ATC spaces aircraft in the busy air around an airport, and when your own eyes can take over from the clock.
• Chapter 7: Procedures for Aerodrome Control Service What the tower does for you between the gate and the sky: the order it tells you things, who it lets go first, and what to do if you get lost on the ground.
• Chapter 8: Use of ATS Surveillance Systems How radar and its cousins find you, prove which blip is you, and how close they then let aircraft fly.
• Chapter 9: Aeronautical Information Services Where a pilot finds the official information about airspace, routes and aerodromes, and how changes to it reach you in time.
• Chapter 10: Search and Rescue Who comes looking when an aircraft is in trouble, and how pilots, ships and survivors talk to each other without a radio.
• Chapter 11: Visual Aids for Navigation How an aerodrome talks to you without a radio: paint on the ground, coloured lights and signs, plus the distances you are allowed to use.
• Chapter 12: PANS-OPS: Aircraft Operations How instrument departures, approaches and holds are built to keep you clear of obstacles, and exactly how to fly them. Animated, step by step.
• Chapter 13: National Law The Indian laws behind your licence: who regulates you, where you may never fly, what you must not do before a flight, and what it costs if you break the rules.
• Chapter 14: Personnel Licensing What you need to hold each pilot licence in India, and what keeps it valid: the right schooling, English level, medical, age and flying hours.
• Chapter 15: Airworthiness of Aircraft Who says an aircraft is fit to fly, which country is responsible for that, and when the certificate stops being valid.
• Chapter 16: Operational Procedures The day-to-day rules of airline flying: what papers you carry, when the weather is too poor to take off or land, what equipment the aircraft needs, how much fuel to load and how long the crew may work.
• Chapter 17: Special Operational Procedures and Hazards The things that can bite you in real operations, from ice and birds to fire, wind shear and the wake of a bigger aircraft, and the rules that keep each one in check.
• Chapter 18: Communications How to talk on the radio so nothing is misunderstood: the code words, the order of priority, what you must read back, and what to do and dial when things go wrong.
• Chapter 19: Aircraft Accident and Incident When something goes wrong, what kind of event it legally is, who must be told within 24 hours, who investigates, and why you must not touch the wreckage.
• Chapter 20: Facilitation How an international flight, its crew, passengers and cargo get through the airport and the border quickly, with the least paperwork.
• Chapter 21: Security: Safeguarding Civil Aviation What a State must do to keep civil aviation safe from hijacking and sabotage, and who handles security in India.

Human Performance

• Chapter 22: Human Performance and Limitations Most accidents start with people, not machines, so a pilot has to understand how humans work, fail and cope in the air.
• Chapter 23: CRM, Threat and Error Management, and LOFT How a crew works together, how the human fits the machine and the rules around it, and how to catch threats and errors before they hurt the flight.
• Chapter 24: Aviation Psychology and Human Factors How your mind takes in, holds and acts on information, and the limits of memory, attention, stress and sleep that cause most pilot errors.
• Chapter 25: Aviation Physiology and Human Factors What thin air, pressure changes and G-forces do to your body, and why your eyes and inner ear can lie to you in flight.
• Chapter 26: Practice: Human Factors A revision round of the whole Human Factors syllabus: the facts the practice questions keep coming back to, body first, then mind.

Practice

• Chapter 27: Sample Question Papers (coming soon)