AMC1 FCL.810(a) Night rating

AEROPLANE NIGHT RATING COURSE

(a) The aim of the course is to qualify applicants for or holders of Part-FCL licences with privileges to fly aeroplanes or TMGs to exercise their privileges at night.

(b) The ATO or DTO should issue a certificate of satisfactory completion of the instruction that can be used for licence endorsement.

(c) Theoretical knowledge

The theoretical knowledge syllabus should cover the revision or explanation of:

(1) night VMC minima;

(2) rules about airspace control at night and facilities available;

(3) rules about aerodrome ground, runway, and obstruction lighting;

(4) aircraft navigation lights and collision avoidance rules;

(5) physiological aspects of night vision and orientation;

(6) dangers of disorientation at night;

(7) dangers of weather deterioration at night;

(8) instrument systems or functions and errors;

(9) instrument lighting and emergency cockpit lighting systems;

(10) map marking for use under cockpit lighting;

(11) practical navigation principles;

(12) radio navigation principles;

(13) planning and use of safety altitude; and

(14) danger from icing conditions, as well as from avoidance and escape manoeuvres.

(d) Flying training

The exercises of the night rating flight training syllabus should be repeated as necessary until the student pilot has developed the necessary competence to safely operate the aircraft under visual flight rules at night.

(1) The flight training required by point FCL.810(a)(1)(ii) should follow the syllabus set out in point (4) below.

(2) Additional training may be completed in an FSTD(A), in order to allow for more efficient training in the aircraft.

(3) Starred items (*) should be completed in simulated IMC and may be completed in daylight.

(4) Night rating flight training syllabus:

(i) exercise 1:

(A) revise basic manoeuvres when flying by sole reference to instruments*;

(B) explain and demonstrate transition from visual flight to instrument flight*; and

(C) explain and revise recovery from unusual attitudes by sole reference to instruments*;

(ii) exercise 2:

explain and demonstrate the use of radio navigation aids when flying by sole reference to instruments, to include position finding and tracking*;

(iii) exercise 3:

explain and demonstrate the use of radar assistance*;

(iv) exercise 4:

(A) explain and demonstrate night take-off techniques;

(B) explain and demonstrate night circuit techniques;

(C) explain and demonstrate night approaches with or without visual approach aids; and

(D) practise take-offs, circuits, as well as approaches and landings;

(v) exercise 5:

explain and demonstrate night emergency procedures including:

(A) simulated engine failure (to be terminated with recovery at a safe altitude);

(B) simulated engine failure at various phases of flight;

(C) simulated inadvertent entry to IMC (not on base leg or final approach);

(D) internal and external lighting failure; and

(E) other malfunctions and emergency procedures, as required by the AFM;

(vi) exercise 6:

solo night circuits; and

(vii) exercise 7:

(A) explain and demonstrate night cross-country techniques; and

(B) practise night cross-country dual flight and optionally supervised solo to a satisfactory standard.