CAAB ATPL Theory study guide
CAAB ATPL Theory · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
The Airline Transport Pilot Licence (ATPL) theoretical knowledge examination is the ground-school hurdle set by the Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh for pilots aiming at the highest level of professional licence. It is taken by first officers building hours towards command, by Commercial Pilot Licence holders who are upgrading, and by cadets in approved integrated programmes who sit the papers as the academic phase of their training. The CAAB ATPL Theory study guide has 9 sections and about 2,624 words.
01Air Law
Air law questions rarely test deep legal reasoning; they test whether you know which document governs which subject and which rule wins when two apply. Work downwards: the Chicago Convention (1944) created ICAO; ICAO publishes Annexes containing Standards and Recommended Practices (SARPs) plus PANS; states transpose these into national law, and in Europe into the EASA Basic Regulation and Implementing Rules.
337 words, about 2 min02Aircraft General Knowledge
AGK rewards a systems picture rather than isolated facts. For each system ask: what is the power source, what does it drive, what happens on failure, and what indication does the pilot see?
296 words, about 1 min03Flight Performance and Planning
Performance questions are won by sorting the variables before reading the chart. Takeoff and landing distance depend on mass, pressure altitude, temperature, wind, runway slope, surface condition and configuration.
289 words, about 1 min04Human Performance
Human performance questions test physiology and psychology in equal measure. Physiology: respiration and hypoxia, hyperventilation, decompression and time of useful consciousness, cabin altitude and oxygen rules, vision (rods and cones, night blind spot, dark adaptation), hearing, spatial disorientation and the classic illusions - somatogravic, somatogyral, the leans, black-hole approach and false horizon.
255 words, about 1 min05Meteorology
Meteorology starts with the ISA: sea level 15 degrees Celsius, 1013.25 hPa, lapse rate about 2 degrees per 1,000 ft up to the tropopause near 36,090 ft. Pressure falls roughly 1 hPa per 27 ft near sea level.
304 words, about 2 min06Navigation
Navigation questions mix geometry, magnetism and radio aids. Learn the triangle of velocities: true heading, true airspeed, wind direction and speed, and the resulting true track and groundspeed.
290 words, about 1 min07Operational Procedures
Operational procedures is the 'how we actually fly it' domain: SOPs, checklists, normal and abnormal operations, MEL and CDL, dispatch, fuel policy, mass and balance, performance, de-icing and anti-icing, ETOPS, RVSM, noise abatement and security. Know the takeoff speeds: V1 is the decision speed for recognising and acting on an engine failure, VR is rotation speed and V2 the takeoff safety speed.
267 words, about 1 min08Principles of Flight
Principles of flight rewards knowing the four forces and how they change. Lift L = one half rho V squared S C L, and C L rises with angle of attack until the critical angle, beyond which the wing stalls.
319 words, about 2 min09Communications
Communications is a precision domain: the examiner wants ICAO standard phraseology, correct readback and correct distress or urgency procedure. Learn the phonetic alphabet, number pronunciation and standard words: roger (received), wilco (will comply), affirm, negative, standby, unable, say again, correction, disregard, break.
267 words, about 1 min