CAA NZ IR Instruments and Navaids

This page does not state a question count or time limit, because the official CAA New Zealand exam pages could not be retrieved when the material was compiled. Treat any figure you see elsewhere as unverified until you confirm it with the CAA or your training organisation, and plan your practice around the four published domains rather than a fixed item count.

No pass mark is published here. The four domains are shown at 25 percent each, which tells you how the syllabus is balanced but not how the paper is scored. Confirm the current pass standard with the CAA before you book, and do not assume a figure carried over from an older syllabus.

No. This is independent study material written for candidates searching this exam. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or produced by the Civil Aviation Authority of New Zealand. Always treat the Civil Aviation Rules, Advisory Circulars and the current AIP New Zealand as authoritative, and use this page only as a revision aid.

Four domains, each weighted 25 percent: flight instruments and instrument systems; radio navigation aids and their use; area navigation, GNSS and required navigation performance; and instrument flight procedures, charts and AIP New Zealand documentation. The equal weighting means you cannot afford to skip any one of them, particularly the chart and procedure work.

No published difficulty data is available here. The pattern worth guarding against is over-preparing on instrument systems, which feel concrete, and under-preparing on AIP New Zealand documentation and procedure design, which require reading actual charts. Practise interpreting plates, minima and nav aid status until it is routine rather than last-minute cramming.

Retake rules and any waiting period are not stated in the source material available here, so no answer can be given with confidence. Ask the CAA or your training organisation about resit eligibility, fees and any interval before you sit the first attempt, so a poor result does not catch you by surprise.

A workable order is instruments and systems first, since everything else assumes you understand what the aircraft is telling you; then radio navigation aids; then area navigation, GNSS and RNP; and finally procedures, charts and AIP documentation, where the earlier material is applied. Adjust to your own weak areas, but keep chart work running throughout.

Neither validity nor fee is published on this page, because the relevant CAA pages were unavailable at the time of writing. Both figures change from time to time, so check the current CAA fee schedule and licensing pages directly rather than relying on a number quoted in a forum or an older study guide.

The Civil Aviation Rules and relevant Advisory Circulars, the current AIP New Zealand volumes and charts, and the flight manual for the aircraft you fly. The fourth domain is built around AIP documentation, so working from real current charts rather than summaries is the most direct preparation you can do.