Air Law and ATC Procedures
The regulatory framework
ANAC (Agencia Nacional de Aviación Civil) regulates Argentine civil aviation under the Código Aeronáutico and the RAAC (Reglamentos de Aviación Civil), which mirror ICAO Annexes. Candidates must know the licence privileges of the PPA, recency requirements, medical certificate classes and validity, aircraft documentation (certificate of airworthiness, registration, radio station licence, insurance, weight and balance, journey log), and pilot documentation.
Rules of the air
Study right-of-way rules, minimum safe altitudes over congested and open areas, VFR weather minima by airspace class, cruising levels (semicircular rule by magnetic track), light and signal rules, and the meaning of intercepted signals. Know airspace classes and their VMC criteria, transponder and radio requirements, and special use airspace.
Traps
Questions love the difference between the minimum and recommended fuel, between controlled and uncontrolled aerodrome traffic patterns, and between day and night recency. Another classic trap: who has right of way when two aircraft are on final - the lower one, but an aircraft in distress or on an emergency always prevails, and no pilot may take advantage of a rule to cut in front of another.
Worked example - cruising levels
Rule of thumb: for magnetic tracks 000°–179° use odd thousands (FL 050, 070, 090); for 180°–359° use even thousands (FL 060, 080, 100). A flight planned on a magnetic track of 275° at 8 500 ft should therefore be at 8 000 ft or 10 000 ft, not 8 500 ft. Always verify the current AIP/RAAC table, since quadrantal or RVSM rules may modify the simple rule.