PNG CASA AME Subject 20 Air Law study materials
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PNG CASA AME Subject 20 Air Law study plan

PNG CASA AME Subject 20 Air Law · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 6 hours per week

Week 1

Civil Aviation Act and regulatory framework of Papua New Guinea & CASA PNG rules and advisory publications (PNG Civil Aviation Rules, advisory circulars)

  • Map the Civil Aviation Act structure: locate and summarise the parts dealing with CASA PNG's establishment, the Director's powers, rule-making, and delegation

  • Trace how a PNG Civil Aviation Rule is made, amended, and incorporated into the Act's framework, writing the procedural chain from memory

  • Distinguish the hierarchy of Act, PNG Civil Aviation Rules, advisory circulars, and airworthiness directives, and state the legal force of each

  • Build a one-page index of the Part numbers in the PNG Civil Aviation Rules and note which Parts govern maintenance and airworthiness

Your checkpoint

A one-page annotated hierarchy diagram plus a Part-number index covering at least 20 Parts, checked against the source text

Week 2

Aircraft maintenance engineer licensing, privileges and limitations & Airworthiness, maintenance programmes and continuing airworthiness requirements

  • List the engineer licence categories, ratings, and privileges available under PNG rules and state the limitation attached to each

  • Compare the requirements for initial issue, type rating addition, and renewal, tabulating experience, examination, and recency criteria

  • Outline the continuing airworthiness obligations of an approved maintenance organisation, including maintenance programme approval and variation

  • Explain how airworthiness directives and mandatory continuing airworthiness information flow from the State of Design into PNG requirements

  • Draft the records an engineer must certify and retain for a scheduled maintenance check

Your checkpoint

A comparison table of licence categories against privileges and limitations, plus a records checklist, self-marked against the rule text

Week 3

ICAO Annexes and international standards applicable in PNG & CASA PNG rules and advisory publications (PNG Civil Aviation Rules, advisory circulars)

  • Match each ICAO Annex number and title to the PNG rule Part that gives it effect

  • Summarise Annex 1 personnel licensing and Annex 8 airworthiness requirements relevant to an engineer's daily work

  • Identify the advisory circulars that explain acceptable means of compliance for maintenance and certification tasks

  • Note where PNG has filed differences from ICAO standards and explain the practical consequence of each for maintenance staff

Your checkpoint

An Annex-to-Part cross-reference table with at least 15 rows and a short note on three PNG differences

Week 4

Rules of the air, airspace classification and air traffic services & Aircraft operations, flight crew and operator responsibilities

  • Classify PNG airspace classes and state the services and clearances each class provides

  • Describe the rules of the air that affect maintenance activity, including aircraft movement areas, ground vehicle access, and radio procedures

  • Summarise operator and flight crew responsibilities that generate maintenance requests, such as defect reporting and minimum equipment list use

  • Explain how a minimum equipment list defect is deferred, recorded, and cleared, and who certifies each step

Your checkpoint

A closed-book 25-question self-test on airspace, rules of the air, and MEL handling, scored and with wrong answers corrected in writing

Week 5

Safety management, occurrence reporting and accident investigation & Enforcement, offences, penalties and liability

  • Outline the safety management system components required of a PNG operator or maintenance organisation and the engineer's role in each

  • Distinguish a reportable occurrence, a serious incident, and an accident, and state the reporting timeline and recipient for each

  • Describe the accident investigation process, including the investigator's powers, the engineer's duty to preserve evidence, and the role of the accident investigation body

  • List the offences, penalties, and liability provisions most relevant to certifying staff, including falsification of records and unlicensed maintenance

Your checkpoint

A one-page occurrence-reporting flowchart from discovery to notification, plus a written summary of five enforcement scenarios with the applicable penalty range

Week 6

Dangerous goods, security and facilitation & Aircraft operations, flight crew and operator responsibilities

  • Classify dangerous goods by hazard class and identify the shipper, operator, and engineer responsibilities for acceptance and loading

  • State the training and recurrent training requirements for staff involved in dangerous goods handling

  • Summarise security and facilitation requirements that touch maintenance, including access control and background checks

  • Explain the passenger and cargo facilitation rules that affect aircraft configuration and documentation

Your checkpoint

A dangerous goods acceptance checklist with at least 12 verification points, plus a 10-question self-quiz on security and facilitation

Week 7

Civil Aviation Act and regulatory framework of Papua New Guinea & Aircraft maintenance engineer licensing, privileges and limitations & Airworthiness, maintenance programmes and continuing airworthiness requirements

  • Re-read the Act provisions on the Director's enforcement and suspension powers and connect each to a maintenance scenario

  • Rehearse licence privilege boundaries by writing five scenarios where an engineer must decline to certify

  • Consolidate continuing airworthiness requirements into a single revision-controlled summary sheet

  • Identify and close the three weakest areas revealed by earlier self-tests

Your checkpoint

Five written decline-to-certify scenarios with rule citations, plus a one-page continuing airworthiness summary sheet

Week 8

CASA PNG rules and advisory publications (PNG Civil Aviation Rules, advisory circulars) & ICAO Annexes and international standards applicable in PNG & Rules of the air, airspace classification and air traffic services & Aircraft operations, flight crew and operator responsibilities & Safety management, occurrence reporting and accident investigation & Dangerous goods, security and facilitation & Enforcement, offences, penalties and liability

  • Run two full-length timed practice exams under exam conditions and record scores by domain

  • Review every missed question and write the correct rule or Annex citation beside it

  • Recite the key numeric thresholds, timelines, and penalty ranges from memory without notes

  • Confirm exam-day logistics and build a final one-page memory sheet limited to high-yield facts

Your checkpoint

Two completed timed practice exams with domain score breakdown and a final one-page memory sheet

Milestones

Week 2: Score at least 75 percent on a self-made 20-question quiz covering licence categories, privileges, and continuing airworthiness, with all errors corrected and cited

Week 4: Score at least 80 percent on the closed-book airspace, rules of the air, and MEL self-test, and correctly explain three PNG ICAO differences in writing

Week 6: Produce a complete dangerous goods acceptance checklist and occurrence flowchart that a peer can follow without asking clarifying questions

Week 8: Achieve at least 80 percent overall on both timed practice exams, with no domain below 70 percent, and hold a finished one-page memory sheet