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Customer: Oleg Ostapenko E-mail: ostapenko2002@yahoo.com

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EUROPEAN AVIATION SAFETY AGENCY.

With the establishment of the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), it is envisaged that JAA flight crew licensing and examining competency will be absorbed into the EASA organisation. It is possible that, when this change has taken place, the PPL may even change its title again, with the words “EASA” replacing “JAA”. However, we do not yet know this for certain. In the UK, such a step would require the British Government to review and, where necessary, revise the Civil Aviation Act. But, whatever the future of the title of the PPL, the JAA pilot’s licence syllabi are unlikely to change fundamentally, in the short term. So, for the moment, the JAA Licence remains, and any change in nomenclature is likely to be just that: a change in name only.

OXFORD AVIATION ACADEMY AND OAAMEDIA.

Oxford Aviation Academy (OAA) is one of the world’s leading professional pilot schools. It has been in operation for over forty years and has trained more than 15 000 professional pilots for over 80 airlines, world-wide.

OAA was the first pilot school in the United Kingdom to be granted approval to train for the JAA ATPL. OAA led and coordinated the joint-European effort to produce the JAR-FCL ATPL Learning Objectives which are now published by the JAA, itself, as a guide to the theoretical knowledge requirements of ATPL training.

OAA’s experience in European licensing, at all levels, and in the use of advanced training technologies, led OAA’s training material production unit, OAAmedia, to conceive, create and produce multimedia, computer-based training for ATPL students preparing for JAA theoretical knowledge examinations by distance learning. Subsequently, OAAmedia extended its range of computer-based training CD-ROMs to cover PPL and post-PPL studies.

This present series of text books is designed to complement OAAmedia’s successful PPL CD-ROMs in helping student pilots prepare for the theoretical knowledge examinations of the JAA PPL and beyond, as well as to provide students with the aviation knowledge they require to become safe and competent pilots.

The OAA expertise embodied in this series of books means that students working towards the JAA PPL have access to top-quality, up-to-date, study material at an affordable cost. Those students who aspire to becoming professional pilots will find that this series of PPL books takes them some way beyond PPL towards the knowledge required for professional pilot licences.

THE JAA PRIVATE PILOT’S LICENCE (AEROPLANES).

The following information on the Joint Aviation Authorities Private Pilot’s Licence

(Aeroplanes); (JAA PPL(A)) is for your guidance only. Full details of flying training, theoretical knowledge training and the corresponding tests and examinations are contained in the JAA document: JAR–FCL 1, SUBPART C – PRIVATE PILOT

LICENCE (Aeroplanes) – PPL(A).

The privileges of the JAA PPL (A) allow you to fly as pilot-in-command, or co-pilot, of any aircraft for which an appropriate rating is held, but not for remuneration, or on revenue-earning flights.

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are normally conducted by the Flying Training Organisation or Registered Facility at which a student pilot carries out his training.

The pass mark in all subjects is 75%.

For the purpose of the issue of a JAA PPL(A), a pass in the theoretical knowledge examinations will be accepted during the 24 month period immediately following the date of successfully completing all of the theoretical knowledge examinations.

M e d i c a l R e q u i r e m e n t s .

An applicant for a JAR-FCL PPL(A) must hold a valid JAR-FCL Class 1 or Class 2

Medical Certificate.

THE UNITED KINGDOM NATIONAL PRIVATE PILOT’S LICENCE (AEROPLANES).

One of the aims of the United Kingdom National Private Pilot’s Licence (UK NPPL) is to make it easier for the recreational flyer to obtain a PPL than it would be if the requirements of the standard JAA-PPL had to be met. The regulations governing medical fitness are also different between the UK NPPL and the JAA PPL.

Full details of the regulations governing the training for, issue of, and privileges of the

UK NPPL may be found by consulting LASORS and the Air Navigation Order. Most

UK flying club websites also give details of this licence.

Basically, the holder of a UK NPPL is restricted to flight in a simple, UK-registered, single piston-engine aeroplane (including motor gliders and microlights) whose Maximum Authorized Take-off Weight does not exceed 2000 kg. Flight is normally permitted in UK airspace only, by day, and in accordance with the Visual Flight Rules.

F l y i n g T r a i n i n g .

Currently, 32 hours of flying training is required for the issue of a UK NPPL (A), of which 22 hours are to be dual instruction, and 10 hours to be supervised solo flying time.

There are separate general and navigation skills tests.

T h e o r e t i c a l K n o w l e d g e Ex a m i n a t i o n s .

The UK NPPL theoretical knowledge syllabus and ground examinations are the same as for the JAA PPL (A). This series of books, therefore, is also suitable for student pilots preparing for the UK NPPL.

THE UNITED KINGDOM FLIGHT RADIOTELEPHONY

OPERATOR’S LICENCE.

Although there is a written paper on Radiotelephony Communications in the JAA PPL theoretical knowledge examinations, pilots in the United Kingdom, and in most other countries, who wish to operate airborne radio equipment will need to take a separate practical test for the award of a Flight Radiotelephony Operators Licence (FRTOL). For United Kingdom based students, full details of the FRTOL are contained in LASORS.

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G r a m m a t i c a l No t e .

It is standard grammatical convention in the English language, as well as in most other languages of Indo-European origin, that a single person of unspecified gender should be referred to by the appropriate form of the masculine singular pronoun, he, him, or his. This convention has been used throughout this series of books in order to avoid the pitfalls of usage that have crept into some modern works which contain frequent and distracting repetitions of he or she, him or her, etc, or where the ungrammatical use of they, and related pronouns, is resorted to. In accordance with the teachings of English grammar, the use, in this series of books, of a masculine pronoun to refer to a single person of unspecified gender does not imply that the person is of the male sex.

M a r g i n No t e s .

You will notice that margin notes appear on some pages in these books, identified by one of two icons:

a key or a set of wings.

The key icon identifies a note which the authors judge to be a key point in the understanding of a subject; the wings identify what the authors judge to be a point of airmanship.

T h e U K T h e o r e t i c a l K n o w l e d g e Ex a m i n a

The UK CAA sets examination papers to test JAA PPL (A) theoretical knowledge either as single-subject papers or as papers in which two subjects are combined.

Two examination papers currently cover two subjects each:

•Aircraft (General) & Principles of Flight:The‘Aircraft(General)&Principles of Flight’ examination paper, as its title suggests, covers ‘Principles of Flight’ and those subjects which deal with the aeroplane as a machine, ‘Airframes’, ‘Engines’, ‘Propellers’ and ‘Instrumentation’, which JAR-FCL groups under the title ‘Aircraft General Knowledge’.

•Flight Performance & Planning: The examination paper entitled ‘Flight Performance & Planning’ covers both ‘Aeroplane Performance, and ‘Mass &

Balance’.

When preparing for the two examinations named above, using this Oxford series of text books, you will need Volume 5, ‘Principles of Flight’, which includes

‘Aeroplane Performance’, and Volume 6, ‘Aeroplanes’, which includes ‘Mass & Balance’ as well as ‘Airframes’, ‘Engines’, ‘Propellers’, and ‘Instrumentation’. So to prepare for the ‘Aircraft (General) & Principles of Flight’ examination, you need to take the ‘Aeroplanes’ infomation from Volume 6 and the ‘Principles of Flight’ information from Volume 5. When you are preparing for the ‘Flight Performance &

Planning’ examination you need to take the ‘Aeroplane Performance’ information from Volume 5 and the ‘Mass & Balance’ information from Volume 6.

It has been necessary to arrange the books in this way for reasons of space and subject logic. The titles of the rest of the volumes in the series correspond with the titles of the examinations. The situation is summed up for you in the table on the following page:

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