CAAP RPA Controller study plan

Map the structure of Philippine civil aviation law from the Civil Aviation Authority Act through to the current CAAP RPAS regulatory issuance, and state in your own words who regulates what.

Extract and tabulate every registration, marking, and certificate-of-authority requirement that applies to a remotely piloted aircraft system operator, separating what applies to the aircraft from what applies to the operator and to the remote pilot.

Identify the categories of RPAS operations recognised under CAAP rules and match each to its approval pathway, then note which category your intended operations fall into.

List the record-keeping, reporting, and notification obligations that fall on an operator after an accident, incident, or change of fleet or personnel.

Distinguish the enforcement powers and penalty provisions available to CAAP from the accident investigation role of the aviation accident investigation body, and describe how each process is triggered.

Draft the standard contents of an operator's operations manual and safety management documentation as required for authorisation, section by section.

Build a personal compliance checklist a remote pilot can run before every flight to confirm currency, authorisation, and documentation are in order.

Trace one hypothetical violation scenario from detection through to sanction and write out each procedural step.

Classify airspace by type and describe the operating permission and equipment implications of each class for a small RPAS.

Explain the difference between restricted, prohibited, danger, and temporary reserved areas, and identify the authority that publishes and amends each.

Convert published vertical limits, distances, and separation minima into working numbers you can apply in the field without reference material.

Identify the standard operating limitations imposed on RPAS such as altitude ceilings, distance from persons and property, visibility, and proximity to aerodromes, and state the rationale behind each.

Assemble a flight planning sequence covering site survey, hazard identification, airspace and NOTAM checks, weather minima, and crew briefing, in the order you would actually perform them.

Conduct a documented site survey of a chosen location, recording obstacles, overhead wires, pedestrian traffic, emergency landing areas, and radio interference sources.

Produce a pre-flight inspection schedule that covers airframe, propulsion, powerplant, control link, batteries, and payload, with pass or fail criteria for each item.

Write a risk assessment for the surveyed site using a likelihood-by-severity matrix and justify each mitigation.

Describe the function and failure modes of each major subsystem: flight controller, inertial sensors, compass, GNSS receiver, electronic speed controllers, motors, and power distribution.

Explain battery chemistry, state-of-charge management, discharge behaviour, and the conditions that lead to thermal runaway or sudden loss of power in flight.

Compare the radio control link and the video or telemetry link in terms of frequency, range behaviour, latency, and susceptibility to interference, and describe what happens to the aircraft when each degrades.

Diagnose a set of written fault scenarios by identifying the failed subsystem, the flight-deck indication, and the correct immediate response.

Interpret a standard aviation weather briefing for a low-level operation, extracting wind at surface and low levels, visibility, cloud base, temperature, and the likelihood of convective activity.

Explain how surface heating, mechanical turbulence around buildings and trees, and coastal or valley effects change the wind a small RPAS actually experiences close to the ground.

Read a sectional or aeronautical chart to determine position, distance, bearing, and the nearest controlled airspace boundary for a planned operating area.

Convert between latitude and longitude, grid references, and local landmarks, and state a position report in a format another crew member can act on.

Deliver standard radio telephony phraseology for position reporting, requests to enter or operate in an area, and readback of clearances, using correct call signs and structure.

Explain the phonetic alphabet, standard words and phrases, and the readback requirement, and demonstrate them aloud until fluent.

Apply crew resource management principles to a two-person RPAS crew by defining the roles of remote pilot and observer, the briefing content, and the challenge-and-response protocol.

Identify the human factors that most affect remote pilots, including workload, complacency, fatigue, visual illusions, and distraction from the display, and describe a countermeasure for each.

Write and rehearse lost-link, loss-of-GNSS, fly-away, battery failure, and mid-air conflict procedures, stating the automatic behaviour of the aircraft and the pilot's intervention for each.

Execute a full emergency drill sequence from memory, including notification, search or recovery, preservation of records, and reporting to the authority.

Complete a timed mock examination across all nine domains and score it against the source material, logging every error by domain.

Re-study only the two weakest domains identified by the mock examination and re-test those areas until you reach a consistent pass margin.