These unit requirements are used for the Controller and
Instructor ratings. The units are designed to be increasingly difficult.
You must complete the units in the order required by the controller rating
requirements. Please remember, you do not need to pass a unit exam before
you can control -- you can always control in any position, provided the
specific unit does have an appropriate FRA setting . If you are taking an
Instructor exam, however, you choose your unit of specialisation, and this
does matter, as you can only teach and examine units you have passed exams
in. All Instructors can teach basic controlling skills to Students.
Unit
Requirements
Ground & Tower
Controller 1
Ability to give a full IFR clearance including a SID from
your chosen airport.
Explain to a pilot the problems with a IFR flight plan
(e.g.: inappropriate cruise altitude, etc.)
Ability to give an IFR clearance without a SID from any
airport.
Understand and interpret ground charts, and so give a
full taxi instruction with yields and taxi-ways to the
active from the terminal.
Select runways at any airport, using the current weather
and runway details.
Handle one arriving aircraft, from intercepting the ILS
to shutting down at the terminal.
Handle one arriving aircraft and one departing aircraft
using a local pattern, and control the arriving aircraft
performing a visual approach.
Handle an missed approach correctly.
Handle a minimum of five aircraft throughout the test,
whether they are taking off or landing.
Handle an Engine Failure during approach for an emergency
landing.
Theory: explain wake-vortex
requirements, explain how to get runway and ILS information
for any airport, explain the importance of Minimum Descent
Altitude and Decision Height, co-ordination between approach
and departures, and any other information relevant to ground
and tower procedures.
Approach & Departures
Controller 2
Ability to use a SIDs and STARs given the appropriate
charts.
Use of Approach Plates from Sector System.
Vector minimum of three aircraft successfully onto the
ILS for approach.
Handle an missed approach and vector back onto the
ILS.
Handle at least three departing aircraft (with or without
SIDs, as decided by the Instructor and the pilots at
fly-ins) for hand-off to center.
Handle an Engine Failure during approach for an emergency
landing.
Handle a variety of emergencies (aircraft without
DG/compass/ASI/ etc.)
Give vectors for a visual approach.
Demonstrate use of stacks (holding points) to regulate
flow of aircraft onto an ILS approach.
Theory: explain information on SID
charts, STAR charts and Approach Plates, separation on the
ILS, speeds for approach, and any other information relevant
to the approach position.
Center (ARTCC)
Controller 3
Center (ARTCC) Abilities
This test is mainly a demonstration of a controller's
ability to handle large numbers of aircraft en route whilst
maintaining separation and ensuring all traffic is expedited
during a fly-in.
Control a minimum of seven aircraft
simultaneously, flying en route.
Whilst controlling en route aircraft, demonstrate ability
to vector an aircraft for an ILS approach (using an approach
Chart) and for a visual approach to an uncontrolled
airport.
Handle a variety of emergencies (loss of pressure, engine
failure, loss of avionics, etc.)
Handle a Lost Communications en route
Use jet-routes, and low airways effectively.
Theory: classes of airspace, airways and
air corridors, use of upper and lower centers at very busy
periods, basic explanation of Oceanic control
theory.