NCAA AME Basic Air Law

It is multiple choice and the passing grade is 75%. The source does not publish a question count or duration, so do not plan around a fixed number of items. Aim to be comfortably above 75% in every domain, because the five areas are equally weighted and a weak domain can pull the total down.

Knowledge Test results are valid for 24 calendar months from the date the result is issued. That is a hard planning constraint: if your licence application slips past that window, expect to sit the test again. Diarise the expiry date as soon as you receive the result.

You can apply to retake the test after presenting evidence that you have received additional instruction from an Authorised Instructor in the areas of your deficiencies. The retake is not automatic and is not simply a repeat sitting: the evidence of remedial instruction is part of the application. Identify your weak domains before requesting the retake.

Applications can be submitted at the Authority's headquarters in Abuja and at the regional offices located in Lagos, Kaduna and Enugu. Confirm current opening hours and appointment arrangements with the office you intend to use before travelling, because the website lists several regional locations and service points.

The syllabi and requirements for all knowledge tests are in Advisory Circular NCAA-AC-PEL 018, located under Personnel Licensing Advisory Circulars on the Authority website at ncaa.gov.ng/documents. Use that AC as your scope document, then map each learning objective to the Civil Aviation Act 2022, Nig. CARs 2023 or the relevant advisory circular.

Start with the Civil Aviation Act 2022 and the NCAA's role, then the Chicago Convention framework, then personnel licensing and the AME licence procedure. Move to airworthiness and maintenance under the Nig. CARs, and finish with oversight, enforcement and occurrence reporting. That order builds the legal vocabulary before you meet the maintenance-specific duties.

Candidates often memorise general ICAO principles but cannot cite the Nigerian instrument that implements them. Others revise the superseded Nig. CARs 2015 instead of the 2023 gazette edition, or skip occurrence reporting and enforcement because they seem unrelated to maintenance. Another trap is knowing a rule but not how it applies to a record, defect or release decision.

Yes - the published blueprint gives each of the five domains 20%. That means there is no safe domain to skip. A candidate who is strong on airworthiness but weak on the Civil Aviation Act or licensing can still fail. Build a score profile from practice questions and spend revision time on the lowest-scoring domain first.

The source does not state the duration or whether reference material is permitted, so treat those as unknowns and confirm with the NCAA or your Authorised Instructor. Do not assume you can carry the Act or CARs into the room. Prepare as though you must recall the instrument, the duty holder and the reporting trigger without notes.

Use the Civil Aviation Act 2022 and Nig. CARs 2023 (Official Gazette). The NCAA site lists Nig. CARs 2015 as superseded, so older study notes built on the 2015 rules are a liability. Check the advisory circular list for amendments before your test date, because circulars and all-operator letters change between sittings.