ATPL Performance

Performance is the subject where pilots who understand aeroplanes lose marks to arithmetic, and pilots who are good at arithmetic lose marks to aeroplanes. 45 questions. 120 minutes. 75% to pass. Subject 032 asks 241 learning objectives for 45 marks, and they are three subjects under one number: physics, law, and reading a chart someone else built. The numbers come in families that look alike — 35 ft and 50 ft, 1.15 and 1.25 — and every wrong option is one of them used in the wrong place. ATPL Performance 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 241 learning objectives for Subject 032. It teaches the charts on charts of its own. The examination supplies a performance annex no book can reproduce, so this one invents three aeroplanes — a single-engine piston, a light twin and a 72-tonne twin jet — and one aerodrome. The numbers differ from the annex; the method is identical. What is inside Where the marks are, on one page: the class A chart chapter pays a mark for every 2.8 objectives, while class A theory needs 6.6. 227 practice questions with worked explanations — 182 through the chapters, plus a 45-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: clearway and stopway, VMCG and VMCA. On the day. One departure, engine failure or arrival per chapter, running the rules through a real operation. 88 clear diagrams drawn for this book: the drag and power curves, the balanced field and the take-off flight path. Every figure sourced, in Numbers you must own**, from CS-25, CS-23 and Part-CAT. A glossary and a 220-entry index. ** Eleven chapters covering the whole syllabus: legislation and declared distances; level flight, range and endurance; climbing and descending; class B requirements; using the class B data; the class A take-off speeds and distances; field length and contaminated runways; the take-off climb and obstacles; engine failure en route; descent, approach and landing; and using the class A data. Written for the paper you are actually sitting. The book follows the 2026 EASA syllabus and says plainly where older textbooks differ: the reduced-thrust limit in AMC 25-13 and the 3 mm boundary between a wet runway and a contaminated one. 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. It also serves the related SACAA (South Africa) and DGCA (India) papers. 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. Its aeroplanes, aerodrome and charts are fictional and must never be used to plan or conduct a flight. One of fourteen books in the Mastering ATPL series, one for each ATPL(A) theory subject, all written to the same pattern.