ATPL (A)

Review Worksheets

010 AIR LAW

BY KDMN
2020
I/ CONVENTIONS AND AGREEMENTS
01 CONVENTION ON INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION (CHICAGO)

then Applied by ICAO (Montréal)

Paris convention Chicago convention
1919 1944

•for civilian a/c. • sovereignty: STATE 12 NM

• Types of flight:
a) Non-scheduled / charter flight.
b) Scheduled flight (regular).
c) Cabotage: domestic flight.
• Chicago convention:
a) SARPs (19 annexes).
b) PANS (4444) Procedures for Air Nav Services.
c) SUPPs (7030) Regional SUPplementary Procedures.
02 INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION ORGANIZATION ICAO

•Reviews ICAO work

ASSEMBLY
• Sets future policy
1 person/member (191)
• Budget

elects
AIR NAV Commission
(19 members by ICAO advise COUNCIL SARPs
adopts
council)
36 states, every 3 years Standards And
AIR TRANSPORT amends
Recommended Practises
Commission

… supervises

SECRETARIAT

03 SARPs
• Standard practices: deemed necessary by ICAO, if discrepancy: 60 days to act.
• Recommended practices, if impracticable: immediate notification.
Appendixes

1 - Personal licensing Lady

2 – Rules of the Air Recruits
3 - Meteo services Might
4 – Chart Change
5 – Units of measurements Uniforms
6 – Operations of a/c On board
7 – A/c Nationality & registration 7 letters for marking
8 – Airworthiness of a/c
9 – Facilities (passengers, baggage, cargo...) 9=g
10 – Aeronautical telecom
11 – Air Traffic Services 11 - ff
12 – Search & Rescue
13 – A/c accident investigation Unlucky
14 – Aerodromes (visual gnd aids) 1-A 4-D -> 14=AD=aerodrome
15 – Aeronautical info service AIS AIS = A15
16 – Environmental protection
17 – Security SEventeen = Security
18 - Safe transport of dangerous goods Fire - > call 18
19 – Safety management

04 CONVENTIONS
a) TOKYO (1963)
• Suppression of unlawful acts committed on board a/c.
• deals against penal law.
• authority of PIC: deliver criminal to authorities, required PNC to restrain PAX, request PAX to
restrain PAX.
•Denunciation: 6 months to ICAO.

b) MONTREAL (1971)
• Suppression of unlawful acts against safety of civil aviation.
• damage on PAX & good, destruction of a/c, damage on any air nav facilities, violence on board.
• denunciation 6 months.

c) WARSAW (1929)
• Responsibility of air carrier for the carriage of PAX, baggage, cargo.
• On board the a/c or during any operations of embarking, disembarking.
• Liability extent to mail and cargo only for international mail and cargo flight.
• based on MONTREAL (1999).

d) ROME 1932-1952
• Liability towards persons/goods on the ground in case of damage or injury caused by the
operations of the a/c.
•damage caused by foreign a/c to third parties on ground.
• claim within 2 years.
05 INTERNATIONAL AIR TRANSPORT ASSOCIATION IATA (1945, Montreal)
• Trade groups of airlines, improve industry, benefits, regulate.
06 EUROPEAN AVIATION SAFETY AGENCY EASA (2002, Cologne)
• Proposes implementary rules & the NAA (National Aviation Authorities) acts as a competent authority, but
normally NAAs cannot decline new standards.
• Promotes highest common standards of safety & environmental protection in civil aviation.
07 EUROCONTROL
• Has a role into the Air Traffic Flow management in Europe.
08 AGREEMENT OF PARIS
•within Europe, non-scheduled flight can fly between ECAC states without obligation to request permission.
09 INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS

II/ ANNEX 8: AIRWORTHINESS AIRCRAFT

• 2 Sections:
a) Type Certification.
b) Continued Airworthiness.
• Required for any flight operation.
• State of Registry issues the Certificate of Airworthiness, judges in case of damages, responsible for the
renewal.
III/ ANNEX 7: AIRCRAFT NATIONALITY & REGISTRATION MARKS

• Registration marks are assigned by ICAO by International Telecom Union.

Nationality /
common marks F- ABCD Registration marks, should be
different from:
3 – letter code (QNH...)
SOS, TTT, PAN, XXX
• Mark dimension:
a) Lighter than air: ≥ 50 cm.
b) Heavier than air: wings (left side, on lower surface) ≥ 50 cm, fuselage ≥ 30 cm.
IV/ ANNEX 9: FACILITATION
01 DEFINITION
Facilitations: measures by which free movement of a/c, crew, pax, goods not destined for the state in which
the airplane has landed in.
02 A/C ENTRY & DEPARTURE RULES
• Member state shall not require more than (max 3 copies, doc are accepted in hard-written block lettering
ink):
a) General declaration (a/c info flight nb, date of flight, nb of crew & names, signed by PIC or
authorized agent.
b) Cargo manifest (nb of package, nature of goods...).
c) Pax manifest.
d) Certificate of residual desinsectation.
03 CREW MEMBER CERTIFICATE (CMC)
• Acceptable means for identification of flight crew member.
• Attests qualification.
• CMC + via if: off duty coming from an international flight for permanent entry.
• Machine-read card only.
• Entering on duty & seeking temporary access.