ATPL Operational Procedures

Operational Procedures is a subject of lists. Most candidates still revise it last. 42 questions. 75 minutes. 75% to pass. Subject 070 asks 346 learning objectives for 42 marks — more than eight for every mark. Much of it is lists: the documents carried, the dangerous goods classes, the runway condition codes. 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 346 learning objectives for Subject 070. It teaches the rules that are actually in force. The syllabus still cites fuel rules renumbered in 2021, low-visibility rules rewritten in 2022 and North Atlantic procedures since replaced. The book teaches the current rules, including NAT Doc 007 V.2026-1, and names the older wording wherever the exam may still use it. What is inside Where the marks are, on one page: the second half of the book pays more than twice as much per objective as the first. 291 practice questions with worked explanations — 249 through the chapters, plus a 42-question mock examination paper weighted exactly as the real paper is. No question is asked twice. All-weather operations: Type A and B approaches, CAT I to III, take-off and system minima, circling. Long-range flights: the North Atlantic High Level Airspace, the track system, contingencies and ETOPS. The confusable pairs, Traps, and why they work and On the day in every chapter. 26 clear diagrams drawn for this book, among them the NAT tracks on a real map, the take-off RVR ladder, the holdover clock and the microburst. Every figure sourced, in Numbers you must own**. A glossary and a 216-entry index. ** Ten chapters covering the whole syllabus: definitions, Annex 6 and the AOC; operating procedures, the fuel scheme and all-weather operations; instruments and equipment; crew and flight time limitations; long-range flights, the North Atlantic and ETOPS; the operations manual and MEL; de-icing and runway condition; fire, decompression and ditching; birds, noise, 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. Beyond the EU and UK. Written to the EASA ATPL(A) learning objectives, which also underpin the ATPL theory examinations of the United Arab Emirates (GCAA), Qatar (QCAA), Oman, Türkiye (SHGM), Singapore (CAAS), Malaysia (CAAM), Hong Kong (CAD), Sri Lanka (CAASL), Thailand (CAAT) and Pakistan (PCAA). A page at the front shows the paper this book serves with each authority and what to add from local sources. Operating rules are national: the ICAO Annex 6 material applies everywhere, and the front matter says what to add from your own authority's rules. 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. One of fourteen books in the Mastering ATPL series, one for each ATPL(A) theory subject, all written to the same pattern.