Air Law and Licensing
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Aircraft Systems and Furnishings
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Exits and Emergency Equipment
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Emergency Duties, Drills, Security
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Routine Duties and Passengers
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Co-ordination and Human Factors
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Dangerous Goods, Hygiene, First Aid
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Quick Facts
- Credential
- Cabin Crew Licence (Nigeria)
- Regulator
- Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority
- Pass mark
- 75% in each subject
- Syllabus
- 14 subjects (Nig. CARs 2.5.1.3)
- Questions
- Not published
- Time
- Not published
- Sitting
- All subjects, one sitting
- Result validity
- 24 calendar months
- Medical
- Class 2 certificate
- Licence validity
- 5 years
- Exam fee
- NGN 10,000 per paper
- Sponsorship
- AOC or ATO course
Retake Window
50 partial | 2 tries | 90 days | 30 wait
50% of subjects passedTwo further attempts90 days from first30 days if missed
Class 2 vs Class 3 Medical
Class 2
- Cabin crew licence
- Valid 24 months
- 12 months past 40
Class 3
- Air traffic controller
- Valid 48 months
- Not for cabin crew
Cabin crew is Class 2
Which Licensing Step Applies
- First application→AOC or ATO course(Within 12 months)
- Lapsed under 6 months→Renewal evidence(Competency check)
- Lapsed 2 to 10 years→Refresher plus General paper(And skill test)
- Lapsed over 10 years→All initial requirements(Start again)
- Holds foreign attestation→No validation or conversion(Sit as new)
- Unused for 1 year→Licence is invalid(Re-establish ability)
Licence Eligibility
- Minimum age
- 18 years
- Language
- Read, write, speak English
- Initial course
- From AOC holder or ATO
- Course recency
- Within preceding 12 months
- Medical
- Class 2 certificate2.5.1.3(b)
- Test endorsement
- Authorised instructor certifies readiness
- Skill test
- Competency test per type
- Practical demonstration
- Fire, evacuation, ditching drills
Medical Clock
Class 2 = 24 months, 12 after 40
Class 2 for cabin crew24 months normally12 months past 40Class 3 is ATCO
Valid vs Invalid Licence
In date
- Within the 5 years
- Document not expired
Invalid
- 1 year without exercising
- Until ability re-established
In date can still lapse
Failed Subjects: What Next
- Passed 50% or more→Partial pass awarded(Two further attempts)
- All passed within 90 days→Proceed to skill test(Result valid 24 months)
- Missed the 90 days→Wait 30 days(Then re-sit)
- Passed under 50%→Re-sit all subjects(No partial pass)
- Before any retake→Further instructor training(New endorsement needed)
- Contesting the result→Written appeal(Within 14 days)
Validity, Renewal, Re-Issue
- Licence validity
- 5 years2.5.1.3(h)
- Becomes invalid
- 1 year without exercising
- Stays invalid
- Until ability re-established
- Renewal evidence
- Competency check plus recurrent
- Recurrent window
- Preceding 12 calendar months
- Lapsed under 6 months
- Renewal evidence only
- Lapsed 2 to 10 years
- Refresher, General paper, skill
- Lapsed over 10 years
- Meet all initial requirements
Partial Pass vs Total Pass
Partial pass
- 50% or more subjects
- Two further attempts
- 90-day clock running
Total pass
- Every subject at 75%
- Result valid 24 months
Partial buys time, not licence
Knowledge Test Rules
- Pass mark
- Not less than 75%3.8.1
- Applied
- To each subject separately
- Cabin crew entry wording
- Says overall pass mark
- Sitting
- Single sitting, all subjects
- Partial pass
- 50% or more subjects
- Further attempts
- Two
- Completion window
- 90 days from first
- Window missed
- Wait not less than 30
- Result validity
- 24 calendar months
- Appeal
- In writing, 14 days
- Results issued
- Within 14 working days
- Retake precondition
- Further instruction, new endorsement
Per Subject vs Overall Mark
General rule 3.8.1
- Not less than 75%
- In each subject
Cabin crew entry
- Prints overall pass mark
- Same 75% figure
Target 75% per subject
Test Day Logistics
- Booking
- NCAA Personnel Licensing office
- Application offices
- Abuja, Lagos, Kaduna, Enugu
- Recommendation
- Instructor's written certification
- Venue
- Advised at time of booking
- Arrive
- 15 minutes before start
- Answer sheets
- Completed using pen
- Not permitted
- Bags, phones, programmable calculators
- Permitted
- Simple hand-held calculator
- Own books
- Not allowed in room
- Leaving early
- Not in last five minutes
- Cancel by booking date
- Fee fully credited
- Cancel after booking date
- 50% of fee credited
- No-show
- Examination fee forfeited
NCAA Fees in Naira
- Air Law paper
- 10,0005.13.1
- Aircraft-specific cabin crew paper
- 10,000 per aircraft
- Skill test
- 50,000 per rating
- Licence initial issue
- 30,000
- Licence renewal
- 20,000
- Endorsement
- 10,000 each
- Cabin crew medical certificate
- 10,000
- Re-issue or replacement
- 30,000
Class 2 Medical Rules
- Class for cabin crew
- Class 22.11.2.7
- Normal validity
- 24 months
- Past 40th birthday
- Reduced to 12 months
- Class 3
- Air traffic controller licence
- Issue delegation
- Any authorised AME
- Discretionary extension
- Up to 45 days
- Class 2 also covers
- PPL, FE and SPA
- Clinical reduction
- Shortened when clinically indicated
Duty and Rest Limits
- Cabin crew duty ceiling
- 14 consecutive hours
- Minimum rest
- 8 consecutive hours
- Flight crew minimum rest
- 9 consecutive hours
- Weekly relief
- 24 hours per 7 days
- Positioning travel
- Not part of rest
- Fatigue duty
- Must not operate fatigued
- Operator duty
- Cannot permit fatigued crew
- Rosters
- Published sufficiently in advance
Oxygen Altitudes
10 brief, 13 all pax, 25 quick-don
10,000 ft: brief oxygen13,000 ft cabin: all passengers25,000 ft: quick-donning masksUnits exceed seats 10%
Oxygen Rules by Altitude
- Flight above 10,000 ft→Flight crew masks reachable(At duty station)
- Flight above 10,000 ft MSL→Brief oxygen use(Pre-take-off item)
- Pressurised above 25,000 ft→Quick-donning masks(Plus cabin crew spares)
- Pressurised, cabin crew carried→First-aid oxygen(Above 25,000 ft)
- Cabin above 13,000 ft→All passengers on oxygen(Continuously)
- Passenger's own oxygen→No smoking within 3 m(No connecting aboard)
Oxygen Altitude Thresholds
- Above 10,000 ft
- Flight crew masks within reach
- Pressurised above 25,000 ft
- Quick-donning flight crew masks
- Cabin crew above 25,000 ft
- Spare outlets or portables
- Cabin above 13,000 ft
- All passengers use oxygen
- Briefing trigger
- Above 10,000 ft MSL
- Dispensing units
- Exceed seats by 10%
- Surplus units
- Evenly distributed through cabin
- Cabin crew standard
- Retain consciousness during descent
- Passenger standard
- Protection against hypoxia effects
- Passenger's own oxygen
- No smoking within 3 m
First-Aid Oxygen Numbers
- Trigger
- Pressurised above 25,000 ft
- Coverage
- At least 2% of passengers
- Floor
- Never fewer than one
- Dispensing units
- No fewer than two
- Planning flow rate
- 3 L/min STPD per person
- Equipment flow
- At least 4 L/min
- May reduce to
- 2 L/min STPD
- Oxygen type
- Undiluted
Signs, Seats and Cabin Cargo
- Required signs
- Smoking and safety belt
- Sign threshold
- 5,700 kg or heavier
- Legibility
- From every passenger seat
- Sign control
- Crew switch on and off
- Cabin cargo
- Only in approved bin
- Bin strength
- Seat load factors, 1.15
- Bin marking
- Maximum mass conspicuously marked
- Weight and balance
- Examinable cabin crew subject
Extinguisher Ladder
29 / 60 / 200 / 300 / 400 / 500
7-29 seats: 130-60 seats: 261-200 seats: 3201-300 seats: 4301-400 seats: 5401-500 seats: 6501-600 seats: 7601 or more: 8
Hand vs Lavatory Extinguisher
Hand extinguisher
- Crew operated
- Count set by seats
- Uniformly distributed
Receptacle unit
- Built in
- One per waste receptacle
- Discharges automatically
Automatic covers the bin only
Which Fire Equipment
- Lavatory waste bin fire→Built-in receptacle extinguisher(Discharges automatically)
- Fire elsewhere in lavatory→Hand fire extinguisher(Automatic unit insufficient)
- Any fire or smoke→Tell flight crew immediately(Then co-ordinate)
- Before extinguishing→Identify the actual source(NCAA emphasis)
- Entering smoke→Don PBE(15 minutes supply)
- Accessible Class E cargo→One portable extinguisher(Required in flight)
Hand Extinguishers by Seat Count
- 7 through 29 seats
- 1 extinguisher
- 30 through 60 seats
- 2 extinguishers
- 61 through 200 seats
- 3 extinguishers
- 201 through 300 seats
- 4 extinguishers
- 301 through 400 seats
- 5 extinguishers
- 401 through 500 seats
- 6 extinguishers
- 501 through 600 seats
- 7 extinguishers
- 601 or more seats
- 8 extinguishers
- Placement
- Conveniently located, uniformly distributed
- Galleys
- One in each lobe galley
- Flight deck
- At least one extinguisher
- Accessible Class E cargo
- At least one extinguisher
- Agent rule
- Suitable for likely fires
- Halon 1211/1301/2402
- Barred on newer certificates7.9.1.6(c)
PBE, Crash Axe, Megaphones
- PBE duration
- Not less than 15 minutes
- PBE threshold
- Over 5,700 kg or 19 seats
- Cabin crew PBE
- Adjacent to each duty station
- Extra PBE
- At each hand extinguisher
- Cargo compartment PBE
- Stowed outside the entrance
- PBE in use
- Must not block communication
- Crash axe threshold
- 5,700 kg or more
- Axe stowage
- Not visible to passengers
- 61 to 99 seats
- One megaphone, rearmost position
- More than 99 seats
- Two, forward and rear
- Second deck
- One when deck exceeds 60
Emergency Equipment Marking Rules
- Accessibility
- No appreciable preparation time
- Identification
- Method of operation marked
- Inspection
- Date of last inspection
- Contents
- Marked when in container
- Emergency lighting
- Independent of main system
- Lighting must show
- Exit markings and locating signs
- Floor proximity marking
- Required for AOC operations
- Break-in markings
- Red or yellow, outlined white
Life Rafts and Water Triggers
- Raft capacity
- All aboard after largest lost
- Single-engine trigger
- Beyond 185 km (100 NM)
- Multi-engine trigger
- Beyond 370 km (200 NM)
- Long-range over-water
- Rafts always required
- Raft light
- Electric survivor locator light
- Raft kit
- Survival kit carried
- Raft signalling
- Pyrotechnic signalling device
- Raft beacon
- ELT in each raft
- Raft stowage
- Facilitates ready use
Initial-Only vs Recurrent Drills
Initial only
- PBE and firefighting drill
- Emergency evacuation drill
Every recurrent
- Exit and extinguisher drills
- Oxygen, flotation, ditching
Two drills are one-time
Drills: Initial or Recurrent
- PBE and firefighting drill
- One-time, initial only
- Emergency evacuation drill
- One-time, initial only
- Emergency exit drill
- Initial and recurrent
- Hand extinguisher drill
- Initial and recurrent
- Emergency oxygen drill
- Initial and recurrent
- Flotation device drill
- Initial and recurrent
- Ditching drill
- Initial and recurrent
- Slide-raft drills
- Where applicable to type
- Evacuation slide alternative
- May observe deployment instead
- Real fire
- Not required in drill
- Halon discharge
- Only with containment facility
Emergency Exit Drill Actions
- Step 1
- Pre-flight exits and slides
- Step 2
- Disarm, open in normal
- Step 3
- Close each door exit
- Step 4
- Arm in emergency mode
- Step 5
- Open in emergency mode
- Step 6
- Use manual inflation system
- Step 7
- Open each window exit
- Step 8
- Remove and position rope
Crew Security Training Elements
- Assessment
- Seriousness of any occurrence
- Teamwork
- Crew communication and coordination
- Self-defence
- Appropriate defensive responses
- Devices
- Authorised non-lethal protective devices
- Behaviour
- Understanding terrorist and passenger responses
- Exercises
- Live situational threat training
- Flight deck
- Protection procedures
- Search
- Least-risk bomb location procedures
Crew Count
20-50 = one, then one per 50
20-50 seats: 151-100 seats: 2Part unit countsParked: half, round down
Taxi Station vs Take-Off Station
During taxi
- At assigned duty station
- Belt and harness fastened
Take-off and landing
- Near floor-level exits
- Uniformly distributed
Taxi seat, then exit seat
How Many Cabin Crew
- Fewer than 20 seats→No regulation minimum(Ops specs may require)
- 20 to 50 seats→1 cabin crew member(Table minimum)
- 51 to 100 seats→2 cabin crew members(Part unit counts)
- 101 to 150 seats→3 cabin crew members(One per 50)
- Parked, passengers aboard→Half the flight number(Round down)
- Ops specs demand more→Follow ops specs(Whichever is greater)
Minimum Cabin Crew Numbers
- 20 to 50 seats
- 1 cabin crew member
- Each further 50 seats
- 1 more cabin crew
- Part unit
- Counts as a full unit
- Greater of
- Ops specs or regulation
- Parked with passengers
- Half the flight requirement
- Fractions
- Round down to whole
- Absolute floor
- Never fewer than one
- Substitute
- Person qualified in evacuation
- Responsibility
- PIC ensures minimum aboard
Where Cabin Crew Sit
- During taxi
- At assigned duty stations
- Taxi restraint
- Belt and shoulder harness
- Leaving station
- Only for safety duties
- Take-off and landing
- Near floor-level exits
- Distribution
- Uniformly through the cabin
- Purpose
- Most effective evacuation egress
Required Passenger Briefing Items
- Smoking
- Limits and prohibitions
- Exits
- Location and use
- Safety belts
- Fastening and unfastening
- Flotation means
- Location and use
- Fire extinguishers
- Location and operation
- Seat backs
- Upright for take-off
- Briefing card
- Location and content
- Oxygen item
- Only above 10,000 ft
- Reduced mobility
- Personal exit-route briefing
- Specialised equipment
- As the Authority requires
- Belt reminder
- Keep fastened while seated
- Briefed by
- PIC or co-pilot ensures
Boarding and Stowage Checks
- Before doors close
- Baggage verified properly stowed
- Verified by
- At least one crew member
- Stowage places
- Racks with restraints or doors
- Placard limit
- Never load beyond marked
- Serving carts
- Stowed before movement
- Loose items
- Secured against turbulence hazard
- Passenger seats
- No food, drink, tableware
- Seating restriction
- Must not impede evacuation
Intermediate Stops and Exit Rows
- Engines
- All shut down
- Exit
- One floor-level exit open
- Responsible person
- Qualified in emergency evacuation
- Identification
- Identified to the passengers
- Exit row decision
- PIC or senior cabin crew
- Exit row test
- Understand and perform functions
- Physical requirement
- Reach, grasp, manipulate mechanisms
- Lifting requirement
- Over-wing exit size and mass
- Slide duty
- Stabilise slide after deployment
- Assistance duty
- Help others off slide
Dangerous Goods vs Security Recurrent
Dangerous goods
- Recurrent every 24 months
- Nig. CARs 8.10.1.10
Security
- Recurrent within 12 months
- Nig. CARs 8.10.1.11
24 goods, 12 security
CRM and Recurrent Training
- Initial CRM
- Joint with flight crew
- Recurrent CRM
- Joint with flight crew
- Also joint
- Emergency equipment and drills
- Also included
- Flight operations officers
- Recurrent ground interval
- 12 calendar months
- Dangerous goods recurrent
- Every 24 months
- Security recurrent
- Within 12 calendar months
- Aircraft-specific element
- Configuration, equipment, procedures
Supervised Line Experience
- Turbojet
- Minimum two flights
- Turboprop or piston
- Two flights, 5 hours
- Supervision
- Under a check person
- Timing
- Before qualifying as required
- Inactive up to 12 months
- Recurrent ground plus check
- Inactive 12 to 60 months
- Refresher ground curricula
- Inactive over 60 months
- Full initial training programme
Kit Triggers
FAK per 100, EMK 100 + 2h, UPK 250
FAK: one per 100EMK: over 100 passengersEMK: sector over 2hUPK: two above 250
First-Aid Kit vs Medical Kit
First-aid kit
- Every aircraft
- Cabin crew use it
- Count set by seats
Emergency medical kit
- Over 100 passengers
- Sector over two hours
- Doctors or qualified persons
Crew kit vs doctor kit
Which Medical Kit
- Minor injury or illness→First-aid kit(Cabin crew use)
- Blood or body fluid→Universal precaution kit(Contain and clean)
- Doctor volunteers on board→Emergency medical kit(Secure location)
- Over 100 seats, 2 hours→EMK must be carried(Both conditions)
- Aircraft needs cabin crew→At least one UPK(Minimum carriage)
- More than 250 passengers→Two precaution kits(Plus Authority additions)
Dangerous Goods Forbidden Unless Exempted
- Infected live animals
- Forbidden unless exempted
- Weapons and ammunition
- Forbidden unless exempted
- Explosives
- Unless required for aircraft
- Poisonous gases
- Forbidden unless exempted
- Infectious substances
- Forbidden unless exempted
- Radioactive material
- Forbidden unless exempted
- Named in Instructions
- Forbidden under any circumstances
- Exemption source
- States concerned, or approval
Precaution Kit vs First-Aid Kit
Precaution kit
- Body fluid spills
- Any cabin-crew aircraft
- Two above 250 passengers
First-aid kit
- Injury and illness
- One per 100 seats
- Located near exits
Contain spill vs treat patient
NOTOC and Information Duties
- NOTOC
- Written notification to captain
- Timing
- As early as practicable
- Ground copy
- Retained and readily accessible
- Copy locations
- Last departure, next arrival
- Held until
- End of the flight
- Flight crew
- Operations Manual instructions
- Passengers
- Warned of forbidden goods
- Passenger article limits
- Set by Technical Instructions
Forbidden Always vs Unless Exempted
Always forbidden
- Named in Technical Instructions
- No exemption route
Unless exempted
- Weapons, explosives, poisonous gases
- States concerned may exempt
Two different forbidden tiers
Medical Kits by Aircraft Size
- 0 to 100 seats
- 1 first-aid kit
- 101 to 200 seats
- 2 first-aid kits
- 201 to 300 seats
- 3 first-aid kits
- 301 to 400 seats
- 4 first-aid kits
- 401 to 500 seats
- 5 first-aid kits
- More than 500 seats
- 6 first-aid kits
- First-aid kit placement
- Evenly distributed, near exits
- Universal precaution kit
- Aircraft requiring cabin crew
- More than 250 passengers
- Two precaution kits
- Emergency medical kit
- Over 100 passengers authorised
- EMK sector length
- More than two hours
- EMK users
- Doctors or qualified persons
- EMK storage
- Secure location
What Is In Each Kit
- First-aid airway
- Resuscitation mask, one-way valve
- First-aid records
- Incident record form
- First-aid reference
- Current edition first-aid manual
- Precaution kit gel
- Powder solidifies liquid spill
- Precaution kit cleaner
- Germicidal surface disinfectant
- Precaution kit barrier
- Apron, gloves, face mask
- Medical kit diagnostics
- Stethoscope and sphygmomanometer
- Medical kit airway
- Oropharyngeal airways, three sizes
- Medical kit access
- Catheters and intravenous fluids
Common Traps
Class 2, not Class 3
Cabin crew hold Class 2 ≠ Class 3 is air traffic
Aim for 75% per subject
3.8.1 sets each subject ≠ Cabin crew entry says overall
Halon is not always permitted
Barred on newer airworthiness certificates ≠ Nig. CARs 7.9.1.6(c)
No published item count
NCAA publishes no question count ≠ Time given at booking
No published domain weights
No percentage blueprint exists ≠ All 14 subjects examinable
Cabin crew recency is not pilot recency
No 3 takeoffs, 90 days ≠ That rule covers pilots
One per 50 is incomplete
First band is 20-50 ≠ Then one per further 50
Battery limits are not in CARs
Limits sit in Technical Instructions ≠ Nig. CARs adopts by reference
Foreign attestation is not converted
Cabin crew cannot be validated ≠ Flight crew licences can
Invalid is not expired
1 year unused makes invalid ≠ 5-year document may remain
Automatic unit is not portable
Bin unit protects the receptacle ≠ Lavatory fire still needs hand
Last Minute
- 1.75% in each subject
- 2.One sitting, all subjects
- 3.50% subjects = partial pass
- 4.Two further attempts, 90 days
- 5.Missed window: wait 30 days
- 6.Results valid 24 calendar months
- 7.Class 2 medical, 12 after 40
- 8.Licence 5 years, invalid after 1
- 9.AOC or ATO course, 12 months
- 10.20-50 seats = 1 cabin crew
- 11.Three extinguishers from 61 seats
- 12.PBE supplies 15 minutes
- 13.Two megaphones above 99 seats
- 14.Crash axe from 5,700 kg
- 15.One first-aid kit per 100 seats
- 16.EMK: over 100 passengers, 2h
- 17.UPK on any cabin-crew aircraft
- 18.Oxygen units exceed seats 10%
- 19.Cabin above 13,000 ft: all passengers
- 20.NOTOC goes to the captain
- 21.Passenger goods limits: Technical Instructions
- 22.Taxi at station, exits at take-off
- 23.PIC may delegate, not transfer
- 24.Item count and duration unpublished
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