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Key concepts: ICAO, Annexes & Conventions

8 ideas to know cold.

What are the ICAO Annexes 1 to 19?

Learn them in order:

  • 1 Personnel Licensing · 2 Rules of the Air · 3 Meteorology
  • 4 Aeronautical Charts · 5 Units of Measurement · 6 Operation of Aircraft
  • 7 Aircraft Nationality and Registration Marks · 8 Airworthiness · 9 Facilitation
  • 10 Aeronautical Telecommunications · 11 Air Traffic Services · 12 Search and Rescue
  • 13 Accident and Incident Investigation · 14 Aerodromes · 15 Aeronautical Information Services
  • 16 Environmental Protection · 17 Security · 18 Dangerous Goods · 19 Safety Management

Where was ICAO created and how is it run?

By the Chicago Convention of 1944; ICAO came into being on 4 April 1947 with its headquarters in Montreal.

  • Assembly: all member states, meets every 3 years
  • Council: 36 states, the governing body
  • Air Navigation Commission prepares technical standards
  • ICAO is a specialised agency of the United Nations

Standards, Recommended Practices and PANS?

Standards (“shall”): states must comply or file a difference. Recommended Practices (“should”): states try to comply. PANS: procedures, approved by the Council.

  • Article 37 adopts the standards; Article 38 allows departures if notified to ICAO
  • SUPPs are regional procedures

The freedoms of the air?

Rights to operate between states:

  • 1st: fly over a state without landing
  • 2nd: land for technical reasons (no traffic)
  • 3rd: carry traffic from your state to another
  • 4th: carry traffic from another state to yours
  • 5th: carry traffic between two other states on a flight to or from your own
  • 1st and 2nd are in the International Air Services Transit Agreement; the others are bilateral

Key articles of the Chicago Convention?

Know the topics:

  • Art. 1: complete and exclusive sovereignty over airspace
  • Art. 5: non-scheduled flights; Art. 6: scheduled services need permission
  • Art. 12: rules of the air
  • Art. 29: documents carried on board
  • Art. 31 / 32: certificate of airworthiness / licences of crew
  • Art. 33: recognition of certificates and licences

Which convention covers what?

Match the place and subject:

  • Tokyo 1963: offences on board
  • The Hague 1970: unlawful seizure (hijacking)
  • Montreal 1971: sabotage against civil aviation
  • Warsaw 1929 / Montreal 1999: liability to passengers
  • Rome 1952: damage to third parties on the surface
  • Cape Town 2001: mobile equipment

Which ICAO Annex covers what?

1 Licensing; 2 Rules of the Air; 3 Meteorology; 4 Charts; 5 Units; 6 Operations; 7 Nationality marks; 8 Airworthiness; 9 Facilitation; 10 Telecommunications; 11 ATS; 12 SAR; 13 Accident Investigation; 14 Aerodromes; 15 AIS; 16 Environment; 17 Security; 18 Dangerous Goods; 19 Safety Management.

Tip: Remember: 1 people, 2 rules, 6 operations, 8 airworthiness, 11 ATS, 13 accidents, 14 aerodromes, 17 security.

State the five freedoms of the air most often tested.

1st: overfly; 2nd: technical landing; 3rd: carry traffic from own State to another; 4th: carry traffic from another State to own; 5th: carry traffic between two foreign States on a flight to or from own State.

  • Chicago Convention 1944 created ICAO (HQ Montreal)
  • Article 1: each State has complete sovereignty over its airspace
  • Tokyo (1963): offences on board; Hague (1970): hijacking; Montreal (1971): sabotage

Practice questions: ICAO, Annexes & Conventions

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Q1The Convention on International Civil Aviation was signed at:

  1. Montreal in 1971
  2. Paris in 1919
  3. Chicago in 1944
  4. Warsaw in 1929
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Answer: C. Chicago in 1944

The Chicago Convention (7 December 1944) established ICAO.

Q2The Chicago Convention came into force in:

  1. 1944
  2. 1919
  3. 1947
  4. 1950
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Answer: C. 1947

It was signed in 1944 and entered into force on 4 April 1947, the same year ICAO became a UN agency.

Q3Under the Chicago Convention, aircraft engaged in international air navigation must carry the following documents EXCEPT:

  1. certificate of airworthiness
  2. a pilot's personal diary
  3. the appropriate licences of the crew
  4. certificate of registration
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Answer: B. a pilot's personal diary

Article 29 lists certificates of registration and airworthiness, licences, journey log book, radio licence, passenger and cargo manifests.

Q4Article 37 of the Chicago Convention commits states to:

  1. allow different rules in each state
  2. abolish all regulations
  3. collaborate in securing the highest practicable degree of uniformity in regulations, standards, procedures and organisation
  4. impose their own tariffs
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Answer: C. collaborate in securing the highest practicable degree of uniformity in regulations, standards, procedures and organisation

This is the basis of ICAO Standards and Recommended Practices (SARPs).

Q5The Standards in an ICAO Annex are:

  1. specifications whose uniform application is necessary for safety or regularity, and with which states must comply or file a difference
  2. optional recommendations
  3. guidance material only
  4. advisory circulars
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Answer: A. specifications whose uniform application is necessary for safety or regularity, and with which states must comply or file a difference

Recommended Practices are desirable but not mandatory; Procedures for Air Navigation Services (PANS) are approved by the Council.

Q6ICAO Annex 13 deals with:

  1. security
  2. aircraft accident and incident investigation
  3. aerodromes
  4. operations
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Answer: B. aircraft accident and incident investigation

Annex 13 – Aircraft Accident and Incident Investigation.

Q7The fifth freedom of the air is the right to:

  1. carry traffic within a foreign state
  2. overfly a foreign state
  3. make a technical stop
  4. carry traffic between two foreign states on a service originating or ending in the home state
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Answer: D. carry traffic between two foreign states on a service originating or ending in the home state

E.g. an Indian airline flying Mumbai–London–New York and carrying London–New York passengers.

Q8The Tokyo Convention of 1963 deals with:

  1. liability for ground damage
  2. hijacking only
  3. registration of aircraft
  4. offences and certain other acts committed on board aircraft
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Answer: D. offences and certain other acts committed on board aircraft

It gives the aircraft commander powers over unruly passengers and recognises the State of Registration's jurisdiction.

Q9ICAO's governing body is the:

  1. Regional Office
  2. Council
  3. Air Navigation Commission
  4. Secretariat
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Answer: B. Council

The Council has 36 members elected by the Assembly; the Assembly meets once every three years.

Q10ICAO Doc 4444 is the:

  1. Aeronautical Information manual
  2. Aerodromes manual
  3. Rules of the Air
  4. Procedures for Air Navigation Services – Air Traffic Management (PANS-ATM)
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Answer: D. Procedures for Air Navigation Services – Air Traffic Management (PANS-ATM)

Doc 4444 PANS-ATM contains detailed ATC procedures; Doc 7030 contains regional supplementary procedures.

Q11PANS differ from SARPs in that PANS:

  1. are issued by states only
  2. are mandatory standards
  3. are approved by the Council and recommended for worldwide application, but are not mandatory standards
  4. apply only to military aircraft
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Answer: C. are approved by the Council and recommended for worldwide application, but are not mandatory standards

PANS are recommended procedures; states need not notify differences, but they are expected to apply them.

Q12The "State of the Operator" is the state:

  1. in which the pilot lives
  2. in which the operator's principal place of business or permanent residence is located
  3. in which the flight starts
  4. in which the aircraft is registered
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Answer: B. in which the operator's principal place of business or permanent residence is located

Annex 6 defines it that way.

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