AMT 615

CIVIL AVIATION REGULATIONS

ALDRIN R.
• A series of rules governing the use of
airspace and its benefits for aviation, the
general public and the nations of the world.
• Serves to govern aircraft operations and
maintenance of aviation facilities, and works
to regulate what happens in the skies.
• Air law, the body of law directly or indirectly
concerned with civil aviation. Aviation in this
context extends to both heavier-than-air and
lighter-than-air aircraft.
“Heavier-than-air aircraft” “Lighter-than-air aircraft”
Orville & Wilbur
Wright Flyer
December 17, 1903
DEVELOPMENT OF MILITARY AVIATION
World War 1 started when Archduke Franz
Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated on
June 28, 1914.
End of war: 11 November 1918
 First international aviation law
convention
Aim;
To develop international civil
aviation in a safe and orderly
manner.
The Convention on International Civil
Aviation, drafted in 1944 by 54
nations, was established to promote
cooperation and “create and preserve
friendship and understanding among
the nations and peoples of the world.”
This landmark agreement established
the core principles permitting
international transport by air, and led
to the creation of the specialized
agency which has overseen it ever
since – the
International Civil Aviation
Organization (ICAO).
International Civil Aviation Organization is a United Nation
specialized agency, created in April, 1944 upon the signing of the
convention on International Civil Aviation and is still active today.
Headquarters: Montreal, Canada.
Fang Liu
Fang Liu is a Chinese attorney
who is the twelfth and current
Secretary General of
the International Civil Aviation
Organization(ICAO).

She is the first woman to hold

this position

Term: 2015-Present
• Are to foster the planning and development of international air
transport so as to ensure the safe and orderly growth of
international civil aviation throughout the world
• Encourage the arts of aircraft design and operation for peaceful
purposes
• Encourage the development of airways, airports, and
air navigation facilities for international civil aviation;
• Meet the needs of the peoples of the world for safe, regular,
efficient, and economical air transport
• Prevent economic waste caused by unreasonable competition;
ensure that the rights of contracting states are fully respected
and that every contracting state has a fair opportunity to operate
international airlines
• Avoid discrimination between contracting states; promote safety
of flight in international air navigation
• Promote generally the development of all aspects of
international civil aeronautics.
The overall goal of the
organization stated that no
country will be left behind.
Concerning airline safety
and the global network of
Air Transport and the
development in the travel
industry.
• Generally deals with commercial aspect
of airline operations.
• Trade association of the world’s airlines.
• Consisting of 290 airlines from 120
nations in every part of the globe.

Headquarters: Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Date established: 19 April 1945
• To promote safe, regular and economic air transport
• To foster air commerce
• To study problems connected with airline industry
• To provide a means of collaborating between air transport
companies and agencies
• To co-operate with other international air transportation
organizations essentially, IATA is airlines working together to
standardize and improve service internationally due to the vital role
played by IATA in air transportation issues, it is recommended that
you ensure that your carrier/forwarder is an IATA agent.
• The Federal Aviation Administration is the
national aviation authority of the United
States. An agency of the United States
Department of Transportation, it has
authority to regulate and oversee all
aspects of American civil aviation.
• FAA also investigates accidents and
provide regulations derived from the
accidents that occurred in order to
improve aviation safety.
Headquarters: Washington, DC
Date established: 23 August 1958
• EASA is an agency of the European Union (EU) with responsibility
for civil aviation safety.
• It carries out certification, regulation, and standardisation, and also
performs investigation and monitoring.
• Its mission is to promote the highest common standards of safety
and environmental protection in civil aviation.
• The Agency develops common safety and environmental rules at
the European level.
Headquarters: Cologne, Germany
Date established: 12 July 2002
 • The Civil Aviation Authority of the
Philippines (CAAP) is the national
aviation authority of the Philippines and
is responsible for implementing policies
on civil aviation to assure safe,
economic and efficient air travel.
• The agency also investigates aviation
accidents via its Aircraft Accident
Investigation and Inquiry Board

DIRECTOR GENERAL | JIM SYDIONGCO

Headquarters: Pasay City, Philippines
Date established: 4 March 2008
•The Legislative branch is authorized to make laws, alter, and repeal them
through the power vested in the Philippine Congress. This institution is divided
into the Senate and the House of Representatives.

•The Executive branch carries out laws. It is composed of the President and
the Vice President who are elected by direct popular vote and serve a term of
six years. The Constitution grants the President authority to appoint his
Cabinet. These departments form a large portion of the country’s bureaucracy.

•The Judicial branch evaluates laws. It holds the power to settle controversies
involving rights that are legally demandable and enforceable. This branch
determines whether or not there has been a grave abuse of discretion
amounting to lack or excess of jurisdiction on the part and instrumentality of the
government. It is made up of a Supreme Court and lower courts.
Civil Aviation Authority Act of 2008.
 AN ACT CREATMG THE CIVIL AVIATION AUTHORTTY
OF THE PHILIPPINES, AUTHORIZING THE
APPROPRIATION OF FUNDSTHEREFOR,
ANDFOROTHERPURPOSES
Begun and held in Metro Manila, on Monday, the twenty-third day
of July, two thousand seven.

SECTION 1. Short Title. -This Act shall be known as the Civil Aviation Authority Act of 2008.

SEC. 2. Declaration of Policy. - It is hereby declared the policy of the State to provide safe and
efficient air transport and regulatory services in the Philippines by providing for the creation of a
civil aviation authority with jurisdiction over the restructuring of the civil aviation system, the
promotion, development and regulation of the technical, operational, safety, and aviation security
functions under the civil aviation authority.
SEC. 21. Policies. - In the exercise and performance of its powers and duties under this Act,
the Authority shall consider the following, among other things, as being in the public interest
and in accordance with the public convenience and necessity:
• (a) The development and utilization of the air potential of the Philippines;
• (b) The encouragement and development of an air transportation system properly
adapted to the present and future of foreign and domestic commerce of the Philippines;
• (c) The regulation of air transportation in such manner as to support sound economic
condition in such transportation and to improve the relations between air carriers;
• (d) Ensuring the safety, quality, reliability, and affordability of air transport services for
the riding public; and
• (e) The encouragement and development of a viable and globally competitive
Philippine aviation industry.
ICAO Annex 2 : Rules of the Air
• Visual Flight Rules (VFR) -Visual flight
rules (VFR) are a set of regulations under
which a pilot operates an aircraft in
weather conditions generally clear enough
to allow the Flight
Visual pilot toRules
see where
are athe
setaircraft
of
is going.
regulations under which a pilot
VFR is ceiling greater
operates an than or equal
aircraft to
in weather
3,000 feet AGL and visibility
conditions generally greater
clear than or
equal toenough
3 nautical
to miles
allow the pilot to see
where the aircraft is going.

VFR is ceiling greater than or

equal to 3,000 feet AGL and
visibility greater than or equal to
3 nautical miles
Instrument Flight rules - IFR is ceiling less than
1,000Instrument
feet AGL and/or visibility
Flight less -than 3
rules
nautical
IFRmiles.
is ceiling less than
1,000 feet
AGL and/or visibility
less than 3
nautical miles.
ICAO Annex 11: Air Traffic Services, Chapter 2, Section 2.6
 ICAO Annex 11: Air Traffic Services

Airspace is the portion of the atmosphere controlled by a country above its territory,
including its territorial watersThe
or,airmore generally,
available to aircraft to any
fly in specific three-dimensional
portion of the atmosphere.
1) 1.Controlled
ControlledAirspace
Airspace
2) Uncontrolled Airspace
2. Uncontrolled Airspace
 Controlled
Class A airspace are
airspaces/airports
• Class B having
• Class C
an Air Traffic Controller
• Class D
(ATC)
• Class E to provide
clearances for take-off,
landing, change of route,
change of altitude and
etc.
 Uncontrolled
Class A Airspace are
• Class B
those airspace/airports
• Class C
without
• Class D ATC. Pilots use
Visual
• Class E Flight Rules (VFR)
and contact each other
through two-way radio to
indicate their intentions.
Automatic dependent surveillance—broadcast (ADS–B) is a surveillance technology in which an aircraft determines its
position via satellite navigation and periodically broadcasts it, enabling it to be tracked.
ICAO Annex 2: Rules of the Air
 ICAO Annex 2: Rules of the Air

Rights of way have been established

and agreed internationally to ensure
that aircraft in proximity with each
other in Visual Meteorological
Conditions (VMC) know which
aircraft has right of way over the other
and what action must be taken to
avoid collision.
 When two aircraft are approaching head-on or
approximately so and there is danger of collision,
each shall alter its heading to the RIGHT.
End of preliminary lecture.