RPAS Pilot Knowledge Requirements: Aircraft Icing

In plain language

You must be able to explain how icing forms, recognize conditions causing surface contamination, identify RPA components susceptible to icing, and understand the effects of frost and ice on launch/recovery systems.

Requirement as structured

RPAS pilots must understand aircraft icing formation, conditions causing surface contamination, susceptible RPA components, in-flight freezing rain, hoar frost, and the effects of frost and ice on launch and recovery systems.

Original regulatory text

- Formation - Explain how icing is formed and the conditions that cause it. - Recognize weather conditions that can cause surface contamination. - Describe the components of an RPA that are susceptible to icing. - In-flight-freezing rain - Hoar frost - Effect of frost and ice on launch and recovery systems

Applies when

country

Canada

max mtom kg

150

min mtom kg

0.25

regulatory category

General