Private pilot theoretical examination (PPL)

Private pilot examination (PPL)

Applicants must have completed flight school exams with satisfactory results (75%), before registering for examination at the Icelandic Transport Authority.

Registration and payment for examinations

the applicant fills in the application
chooses the type of exam (PPL)
chooses the exam date
chooses the exams he/she intends to take and presses "Book"
By pressing "Book" a seat is reserved and a countdown timer appears on the page. After that, the candidate has 30 minutes to complete the registration and pay for the exam.
30 minutes are counted down according to the countdown timer displayed on the registration page
confirmation of registration is sent by e-mail

If registration is completed after the 30 minute period

booking is cancelled and registration considered invalid
exam fees will be refunded

Examination rules

The following rules apply for all theoretical knowledge examinations and examination viewings. It is the examinee´s responsibility to acquaint himself with and abide the examination rules.

Examinee must have passed exams at ATO (75%) before registering for exams at ICETRA. School exams at an ATO (ATOs recommendations) are valid for 12 months for each individual subject.
A confirmation, of an applicants' recommendation from an ATO, is required prior to the examinee being granted a sitting in each individual subject. ICETRA will confirm a students recommendation with their ATO.
Copying or distribution of examinations is forbidden. The examinations are confidential between examinees and ICETRA.
Examinee shall be polite to invigilators and comply with staff instructions, regarding examination, at all times.
Examinee may face exam expulsion if he does not abide specific invigilator instructions or is found to be in violate of examination rules.
Food is not allowed in the exam room. Only bottled drinks with caps are allowed. Examinee shall keep exam room and ICETRA facilities as clean as possible during exams.
A surveillance camera system is in the exam room, due to examination invigilation.

Examinee must show a valid photo identification (ID) before taking an exam (i.e. passport or a driver's licence).
All phones, smartwatches and other electronic equipment must be turned off and handed in to invigilator before taking exam.
Jackets, windbreakers, hats, caps, bags, pencil cases etc. must be left with invigilator before taking exam.
Programmable calculators are not allowed. Exception can be made if an invigilator resets the calculator to factory settings with 'factory reset'. No responsibility is taken for calculators after resetting them to factory settings.
PPL exams are available in Icelandic and English. The examinee selects the preferred language before the exam starts.
ATPL exams are only available in English.
It is the students responsibility to select the correct examination subject and language at the start of each exam.

Do not write anything on scratch paper before pressing “start“ button to start the exam.
All communication, verbal and non-verbal, between students is prohibited during the exam and until students have left the exam premises.
Do not look at anyone´s computer screen except your own.
Do not open other software or browsers in the examination computers.
Only allowed examination aids, approved by ICETRA, can be used during the exam. All other items or documents are prohibited.
ICETRA provides students with English-English dictionaries when examinations are conducted in English.

Students are allowed to bring the following to examination:

General

Writing utensils
Non-programmable calculator
Mechanical, non-programmable navigation slide-rule (DR calculator)
Protractor (plotter)
Compass and divider
Ruler

ATPL

Mass and Balance: CAP 696
Flight Planning & Monitoring: Jeppesen General Student Pilot Route Manual (GSPRM 2017) and CAP 697
General Navigation: Jeppesen General Student Pilot Route Manual (GSPRM 2017)
Performance: CAP 698

PPL

VFR chart of Iceland for Navigation and Flight Performance and Planning

Necessary examination aids: Examinees are required to bring their own copy of the Jeppesen GSPRM 2017 (ATPL), or a VFR Chart of Iceland (PPL), for exams in relevant subjects.

Other items or documents are prohibited and can be considered in violation of examination rules.

Examination aids cannot include filled out graphs, highlights, underlines or glossary of any kind. Periodic checks will be performed by invigilators and items confiscated if they are in violation of these rules.

Examinee shall always sign their scratch paper and hand it in to invigilator after every exam, along with their log-in papers and Annexes.

Examination results should normally be available one week after the final exam of each sitting. Results will be delivered via e-mail.

Violation of the rules stated here may lead to an expulsion and invalidation of an exam, or an invalidation of the examinations as a whole.

Candidates found to be cheating will have all their exams at ICETRA invalidated and will be banned from any further examination within all EASA member states for a minimum of 12 months

An applicant is considered to have passed theoretical examinations at ICETRA if he/she has completed exams in all subjects with results of 75% or higher, assuming pass standards and other conditions mentioned below are met in full. Grades are given with two decimal points (e.g. 75,00). ICETRA does not round up grades nor deduct points for wrong answers.

Pass standard for each examination paper is at least 75%
Applicants must pass all required theoretical knowledge examination papers within a period of 18 months counted from the end of the calendar month when the applicant first attempted an examination
Applicants must pass each examination paper within 4 attempts
(ATPL) Applicants must pass all required examination papers within 6 sittings
(ATPL) Before an applicant can be recommended by an ATO to sit their final examination paper at the first attempt they shall have successfully completed all the applicable Area 100 – KSA summative assessments and the mental maths test at their ATO.

The successful completion of the theoretical knowledge examination will be valid for:

24 months for PPL
36 months for CPL/IR

Candidates in theoretical knowledge examinations at the Icelandic Transportation Authority may apply for examination viewing after an exam sitting.

Exam questions will be displayed on a computer.
Only answers to questions that were incorrectly answered on the exam will be displayed.
Only students who took exams in the last sitting can apply for an examination at any given time.