ATPL Operational Procedures

Operational Procedures gives the best return in the whole ATPL. Most candidates still revise it last. 42 questions. 75 minutes. 75% to pass. Subject 070 asks 245 learning objectives for 42 marks — fewer objectives per mark than any other subject in the series. The material is lists: the documents carried, the four parts of the operations manual, the nine dangerous goods classes, the runway condition codes. Lists are learnable. The examiner's favourite trick is to offer you the right item from the wrong list. ATPL Operational Procedures is a complete revision guide and question bank for the EASA and UK CAA airline transport pilot licence theory examination, written by an airline captain and Chief Flight Instructor, and built on all 245 learning objectives for Subject 070. It teaches the rules that are actually in force. The 2020 syllabus still cites the fuel provisions by their pre-2021 numbers, renumbered by Regulation (EU) 2021/1296. Chapter 2 opens with a table mapping every old reference to the rule that replaced it, so you can read the syllabus and the regulation side by side without confusion. What is inside Where the marks are, on one page, and in this subject the order matters: the second half of the book pays a third more per objective than the first. 270 practice questions with worked explanations — 228 through the chapters, plus a 42-question mock examination paper weighted exactly as the real paper is, built only from objectives the chapters did not test. No question is asked twice. The confusable pairs and Traps, and why they work in every chapter: MMEL and MEL, duty period and flight duty period, precautionary landing and emergency landing, dangerous goods accident and incident, spin-up and spin-down. On the day. One flight or turnround per chapter, running the rules through a real operation. 18 clear diagrams drawn for this book: the alternate aerodromes, the fuel and energy scheme, the maximum daily flight duty period, the holdover clock, the runway condition report, hydroplaning, the emergency descent, ditching headings, the microburst, wake vortices near the ground and the nine dangerous goods classes. Every figure sourced, in Numbers you must own**. Self-check pages, a glossary and a 145-entry index.** Nine chapters covering the whole syllabus: definitions, Annex 6, the AOC and the documents to be carried; operating procedures, aerodrome minima and the fuel and energy scheme; instruments, equipment, communication and navigation; flight and cabin crew qualification and flight time limitations; the operations manual and the minimum equipment list; de-icing, holdover times, runway condition codes and hydroplaning; fire, hot brakes, decompression, ditching, emergency landings and fuel jettisoning; bird hazards, noise abatement, wind shear and wake turbulence; and security and dangerous goods. Written for the paper you are actually sitting. The main text follows the EASA rules — Part-CAT, Part-ORO and Part-SPA — and boxes marked UK give the UK position where it differs. Topic 071 03 is helicopter-only and not examined for the ATPL(A); it is not padded into the book. For integrated and modular students, frozen ATPL candidates, and line pilots refreshing winter operations and dangerous goods. A revision guide, not a course of training: enrolment with an Approved Training Organisation remains a legal prerequisite. It contains no questions from any question bank — every question was written for this book. Your operator's manual and the aircraft flight manual govern what you actually do.