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BR-ANAC-R-VFRH study plan

BR-ANAC-R-VFRH · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 7 hours per week

Week 1

Air Law and ANAC Regulations for Remotely Piloted Aircraft

  • Map the ANAC regulatory structure for RPAS by writing an outline that places each relevant regulation (registration, licensing, operational limits, airspace access) under its correct heading

  • Define in writing the categories and class limits that govern where and how a remotely piloted aircraft may be flown in Brazil

  • List the pilot certification, medical/health, and recency requirements and state exactly what evidence satisfies each one

  • Extract every numeric limit in the air-law material (altitudes, distances, masses, ages, validity periods) into a single reference sheet with units

Your checkpoint

A one-page regulatory cheat sheet containing at least 30 numbered limits and definitions, each traceable to a regulation article

Week 2

Air Law and ANAC Regulations for Remotely Piloted Aircraft & Operational Procedures

  • Apply the air-law rules to ten written operational scenarios and justify each answer by citing the governing requirement

  • Sequence the pre-flight, in-flight, and post-flight administrative obligations (authorizations, notifications, records) in the order they must occur

  • Describe the conditions under which a flight must be terminated, refused, or reported, and to whom

  • Draft the documentation checklist a remote pilot would carry or retain for an inspection

Your checkpoint

Ten solved scenario questions with written justifications plus a completed pre-flight documentation checklist

Week 3

General Knowledge of Rotorcraft and Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems & Principles of Flight (Rotorcraft)

  • Label the major components of a multirotor and a conventional helicopter on a hand-drawn diagram and state the function of each

  • Explain how rotor thrust, torque, and control inputs in each axis produce translation, yaw, and hover, in your own words

  • Compare the failure modes and redundancy of the main RPAS subsystems (power, propulsion, data link, flight controller, navigation sensors)

  • Relate rotorcraft aerodynamic concepts such as induced flow, translational lift, vortex ring state, and retreating-blade stall to practical RPAS handling risks

Your checkpoint

An annotated two-diagram systems sheet plus a 300-word written explanation of hover, translation, and yaw control

Week 4

Flight Performance, Loading and Mass & Balance

  • Compute mass and balance for three worked examples, locating the centre of gravity and checking it against stated limits

  • Calculate endurance and range from battery capacity, consumption, and payload, and identify the assumptions that make the result optimistic

  • Explain how density altitude, temperature, and payload change hover and climb performance, with a worked numeric example

  • Produce a load-planning template that flags an out-of-limits condition before flight

Your checkpoint

Three fully worked mass, balance, and performance problems with correct answers and a reusable load-planning template

Week 5

Meteorology

  • Decode a written meteorological report and forecast and state the wind, visibility, cloud, and weather trend they imply

  • Interpret the standard pressure, temperature, and wind information a pilot obtains before flight and convert between the units used in Brazil

  • Describe how wind gradient, gusts, thermals, and precipitation affect small rotorcraft and list the go/no-go thresholds you would apply

  • Explain the formation of the weather hazards most relevant to low-level RPAS flight and the warning signs visible before flight

Your checkpoint

A weather decision card with your personal go/no-go thresholds plus five decoded reports with a written interpretation of each

Week 6

Navigation & Communications and Radio Telephony

  • Read positions, distances, and bearings from a chart excerpt and convert between true and magnetic directions

  • Plan a short cross-country RPAS mission on paper, including waypoints, distances, headings, and time en route

  • State the standard phraseology for initial call, position report, and readback, and spell five registration identifiers using the phonetic alphabet

  • Explain lost-link and lost-position procedures and the radio or notification actions each requires

Your checkpoint

A completed one-page navigation log for a planned mission plus a scripted radio call sequence with correct readbacks

Week 7

Human Performance and Limitations

  • Identify the physiological and psychological factors that degrade remote pilot performance and match each to a mitigation you would actually use

  • Explain how fatigue, workload, and vigilance decrement affect monitoring of an automated flight, and design a personal fatigue-management rule

  • Describe the sensory and perceptual traps of screen-based flight and how to cross-check instruments to avoid them

  • Apply a decision-making model to three accident-style narratives and identify the point where the chain could have been broken

Your checkpoint

A personal fitness-to-fly checklist and three analysed narratives with the decision error and break point identified in each

Week 8

Air Law and ANAC Regulations for Remotely Piloted Aircraft & Flight Performance, Loading and Mass & Balance & Meteorology & Operational Procedures

  • Sit two timed full-length mock exams and record the score per domain to expose remaining weak areas

  • Re-study only the two weakest domains and re-test them until each reaches a stated target score

  • Recite the numeric limits, weather thresholds, and radio phraseology from memory without notes

  • Review every previously missed question and write the corrected reasoning for each

Your checkpoint

Two timed mock exam score sheets with per-domain breakdowns and a written remediation log for every missed item

Milestones

Week 2: Score at least 80% on a 25-question air-law and operational-procedures set drawn from your own notes, with every answer justified by a cited requirement

Week 4: Solve three fresh mass, balance, and performance problems unaided with correct answers and correct units

Week 6: Produce a complete navigation log and radio script for a new route in under 30 minutes with no reference material

Week 8: Achieve at least 85% overall on both timed mock exams, with no domain below 70%