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Regulation - ICAO & the Chicago Convention Flashcards

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What does ICAO stand for?

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the International Civil Aviation Organisation

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What is ICAO?

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A specialized agency of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)

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What is ICAO responsible for?

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Coordinating and regulating international air travel

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What is the Chicago Convention?

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A document signed on 7 December 1944

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What does the Chicago Convention do?

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It establishes rules of airspace, aircraft registration and safety, security, and sustainability, and details the rights of the signatories in relation to air travel, and contains provisions pertaining to taxation.

The Convention also concerns the issue and recognition of certificates (e.g. an aircraft’s certificate of airworthiness (C of A) or an airline’s air operator certificate (AOC) and licences (e.g. pilot licensing or controller licensing).

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How many ‘freedoms’ are established by the Convention?

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Nine, five of which are official and four unofficial.

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What is the first freedom?

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The right to overfly a foreign country without landing

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What is the second freedom?

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The right to refuel or carry out maintenance in a foreign country

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What is the third freedom?

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The right to fly from one’s own country to another

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What is the fourth freedom?

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The right to fly from a foreign country to one’s own

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What is the fifth freedom?

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The right to fly between two foreign countries during flights which begin or end in one’s own

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What is the sixth freedom?

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The right to fly from one foreign country to another one while stopping in one’s own country

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What is the seventh freedom?

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The right to fly between two foreign countries while not offering flights to one’s own country

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What is the eighth freedom?

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The right to fly between two or more airports in a foreign country while continuing service to one’s own country

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What is the ninth freedom?

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The right to fly inside a foreign country without continuing service to one’s own country

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Which of the freedoms apply automatically?

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The first and second

17
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How are the freedoms, which do not apply automatically, enabled?

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By international agreements between States.

18
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How many times has the Chicago Convention been revised?

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Eight

19
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When was the Chicago Convention last revised?

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2006

20
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How many States are party to the Chicago Convention?

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193 (March 2019)

21
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How many annexes are there to the Chicago Convention?

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19

22
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What does Annex 1 cover?

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Personnel licensing (Licensing of flight crews, air traffic controllers & aircraft maintenance personnel. Including Chapter 6 containing medical standards).

23
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What does Annex 2 cover?

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Rules of the Air

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What does Annex 6 cover?

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Operation of Aircraft

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What does Annex 8 cover?

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Airworthiness

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What does Annex 13 cover?

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Aircraft Accident and Incident Investigation

27
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What does Annex 14 cover?

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Aerodromes

28
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What are bilateral agreements called?

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Air services agreements

29
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What is an ICAO Standard

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Any specification for physical characteristics, configuration, material, performance, personnel or procedure, the uniform application of which is recognised as necessary for the safety or regularity of international air navigation and to which Contracting States will conform in accordance with the Convention; in the event of impossibility of compliance, notification to the Council is compulsory under Article 38 of the Convention.

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What is an ICAO Recommended Practice?

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Any specification for physical characteristics, configuration, material, performance, personnel or procedure, the uniform application of which is recognised as desirable in the interest of safety, regularity or efficiency of international air navigation, and to which Contracting States should endeavour to conform in accordance with the Convention.

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Regarding SARPs, what must contracting States do?

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Either implement them or notify a difference to ICAO.

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