EASA Exam: Operational Procedures
 

Hi again guys!

Thanks for all your earlier help with my QFE/QNH question, this is obviously a forum thats going to prove very helpful to my training :ok:

Question 2 time :)

Since the EASA came along and added the 'Operational Procedures' exam into the syllabus, there seems to be little clarity as to what it actually is! I have recently passed my Air Law exam and the Air Pilots Manuals I use for this are very helpful, but a bit outdated!

Has anyone recently taken an Operational Procedures exam and can give me some information as to what it contains? I've heard that it takes elements out of EVERY exam and puts them into one, which if is true - I am stuffed! Others say its an addition to Air Law, containing topics such as accident reporting and noise abatement procedures (but isnt this just Air Law!!???)

Can anyone tell me what I actually need to study up on :bored: ?

Thanks again!!

It is not an addition to Air Law, but covers more specifically ICAO Annexes 6 and 18, in other words more to do with EASA than ICAO.

You may well meet other questions from other subjects - for example, questions that may seem best in POF will be there (as they will in Performance), but with a different purpose - for example, a question might ask why a situation is dangerous rather than what it is.

For fixed wing, it will include Grid Navigation and North Atlantic procedures, so it may be best left until you take Gen Nav, RNAV and Flight Planning to save you learning things out of sequence (depends on your school syllabus).

When you join a company, you will find a lot of the subject matter in your company's operations manual, so don't dismiss it out of hand.

As you say Ops Procedures was a new subject under JAA/EASA and I used to describe at as dumping ground where they put things they weren't sure about!

The thing you have to be really careful about is the sometimes slightly different numbers regarding minima etc. Ops is EUR-OPs and Air Bore is ICAO.

Ops does contain material from other areas eg. systems & met and I agree with Phil if possible take it last as most of the syllabus would be covered in other areas. It is certainly more practical and flight safety related than Air Bore.

Remember if in doubt the answer is "The Operations Manual"!

Now here's a thread that deserves a bump if ever I saw one!