SUBJECT 033 – FLIGHT PERFORMANCE AND PLANNING – FLIGHT PLANNING AND MONITORING

General Student Pilot Route Manual (GSPRM) This document shall be referred to as the General Student Pilot Route Manual (GSPRM) and should contain as a minimum:

1.a table of contents and a list of effective pages;

2.introduction with the instrument flight rules (IFR) charts’ legends;

3.1:500 000 visual flight rule (VFR) aeronautical chart of Germany;

4.en-route low- and high-altitude IFR charts to cover the airspace above all EU Member States plus Norway, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and the Balkans;

5.en-route high-altitude chart of the North Pole (a polar stereographic projection) to illustrate current polar routes;

6.a plotting chart of the North Atlantic (with information on extended range operations with two-engined aeroplanes (ETOPS));

7.area, aerodrome/heliport, aerodrome ground movement, standard instrument departure (SID), standard instrument arrival (STAR) and instrument approach charts (IACs) for Alicante Elche, Amsterdam Schiphol, Dubrovnik Čilipi, London Heathrow, Nantes/Atlantique, Santorini and Stuttgart for aeroplane operations, and Aberdeen, De Kooy and Tromso for helicopter operations;

8.microwave landing system (MLS) approach chart for Galbraith Lake Alaska;

9.an example of a completed air traffic service (ATS) flight plan (with instructions on how to complete it), including the ICAO model flight plan form;

10.introduction with the VFR charts’ legends, aerodrome directories for Croatia, France, Germany, Spain and United Kingdom, and area, aerodrome/heliport and visual approach charts (VACs) for Aberdeen Dyce, Alicante Elche, Dubrovnik Čilipi, Friedrichshafen, Gloucestershire and Nantes/Atlantique. The charts should have a frozen date (e.g. 01.01.2017), and be reissued on a regular basis (e.g. every 4–5 years). The charts listed above will form the basis for the questions in licensing examinations. There will be no obligation for any student or approved training organisation (ATO) to buy, use or issue the GSPRM (nor will it have any other subject-matter material in it), but the content will be the basis for charts which may appear in Part-FCL exams. Any chart provider (Lido, Jeppesen, Navtech, etc.) may provide the GSPRM, but the students will not be expected to learn non-ICAO standard symbology or chart requirements. Note that the term ‘mass’ is used to describe a quantity of matter, and ‘weight’ when describing the force. However, the term ‘weight’ is normally used in aviation to colloquially describe mass. The professional pilot should always note the units to determine whether the term ‘weight’ is being used to describe a force (e.g. unit newton) or quantity of matter (e.g. unit kilogram).