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AIR LAW & AVIATION LAW

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• Air law is a body of rules governing the use of airspace and its benefit for aviation, the general public and the nations of the world. (Diedriks–Verschoor) • Air Law is the regulation of the circulation, the navigation and the use of aircraft and also the legal right and obligation which may rise therefrom. (Pepin) • Air Law comprises all kinds of law, regulations and customs connected with flight and all rights and obligations of human beings as executive, which are base on Treaties, Conventions and customs valid amongst nations concerning flight. (Prof. Dr. Priyatna Abdurrasyid, SH) Another Terms ?  Aviation Law  Navigation Law  Air Transportation Law    Only one sector of Air Law and thus conveying too narrow an interpretation Air Law is interwined with other areas of law on several points. It involves many aspects of constitutional law, civil law, commercial law and criminal law. Aviation law is the branch of law that concerns flight, air travel , an

SOURCES OF AIR LAW

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• Convention Relating to the Regulation of Aerial Navigation (The Paris Convention of 1919); • The Ibero-American Convention and The Pan-American Convention (Madrid Convention of 1926); • Inter-American Convention International Convention on Commercial Aviation (Havana Convention of 1928); • Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules Relating to International Carriage by Air (Warsaw Convention of 1929); • Convention on International Civil Aviation (Chicago Convention of 1944); • Convention on offences and certain other acts committed on board aircraft (Signed at Tokyo on 14 September 1963); • Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft (Signed at The Hague on 16 December 1970); • Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts Against the safety of Civil Aviation (Signed at Montreal, on 23 September 1971); • National Law/Legislation;

UNDERSTANDING AVIATION LANGUAGE

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The language of aviation came about from a need for safety. To avoid pilots and controllers mishearing each other and potentially creating an accident, a language of aviation terms and phrases were compiled in the Pilot/Controller Glossary. LETTERS A - Alpha B - Bravo C - Charlie D - Delta E - Echo F - Foxtrot G - Golf H - Hotel I - India J - Juliet K - Kilo L - Lima M - Mike N - November O - Oscar P - Papa Q - Quebec R - Romeo S - Sierra T - Tango U - Uniform V - Victor W - Whiskey X - Xray Y - Yankee Z - Zulu NUMBERS 0 - "Zero" 1 - "Wun" 2 - "Two" 3 - "Tree" (pronounced like a Scandinavian) 4 - "Fower" 5 - "Fife" 6 - "Six" 7 - "Seven" 8 - "Eight" 9 - "Niner" 100 - "Wun hundred" 1000 - "Wun thousand" 10 000 - "Wun, zero thousand" FL330 - "Flight level tree, tree, zero"