Air Law and ATC Procedures
Air Law and ATC Procedures in the Norwegian CPL exam tests your command of EASA Part-FCL privileges and recency, SERA rules of the air, ATC clearances and readback, airspace classification, and the national BSL differences published by Luftfartstilsynet. Expect questions that combine a regulation with a practical scenario.
Licence, medical and recency
A CPL needs a valid Class 1 medical. To carry passengers, you need three take-offs and three landings in the preceding 90 days, and three at night for night passengers. IFR recency is separate. Your licence, medical and photo ID must be carried; Norway accepts EASA-standard documents. A clearance is not a licence to deviate from the rules unless an emergency requires it.
Clearances and airspace
SERA requires you to read back runway, altitude, heading and frequency instructions. In Class C and D airspace, VMC minima differ; Class D requires 5 km visibility and 1500 m horizontally/1000 ft vertically from cloud. Special VFR is only by ATC clearance. Position reports and compulsory reporting points must be made as instructed.
Worked example
A pilot last flew 100 days ago and wants to take two passengers on a daytime VFR flight. The 90-day passenger recency has lapsed, so three take-offs and landings are required first. They can be flown solo or with a non-passenger pilot; only then may passengers be carried. The licence and Class 1 medical must still be valid.
Traps
Confusing SERA minima with national differences; forgetting that a clearance must be read back; mixing medical validity with recency; assuming a lapsed recency invalidates the licence rather than passenger privileges.