Volume 4
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Flight Rules are the rules-of-the-road for a pilot.

As pilots, we incur many responsibilities for the safe operation of the aircraft, for the carriage of passengers and for our conduct in the sky and at the aerodromes which we share with other aircraft.

Over many years of aircraft operation, certain rules and procedures have evolved, not to inhibit operations, but to ensure that lessons from the past have been learned - and to ensure that we are not going to needlessly endanger lives - our or others.

When we are learning to fly, there is a natural tendency to focus on the techniques of flying the aircraft, then navigation and then radio procedures.  Regulations and rules tend to take last place in the training priorities.  However, when we consider that our interaction with other aircraft, with Air Traffic Control and weather services, with maintenance staff, with re-fullers - for both normal and emergency operations, depends on our knowledge of the procedures, then there is a good reason to be familiar with these rules and guidelines.

It used to be said that there was at least one crash to support each and every regulation.  If we know and follow the rules-of-the-air we automatically include a safety factor in our operations - a safety factor that has been learnt the hard way.

This book assembles the relevant regulations, orders and procedures in one easily accessible document.  However, all rules are subject to amendment and the onus is on each of us to also maintain a current set of operational documents and to be familiar with them.

It also contains information necessary to convert overseas licences to Australian PPL and CPL.