The exam questions are based on the European Central Question Bank (ECQB) of EASA. The ECQB is property of EASA and its content confidential. Therefore these questions are not published.

Neither EASA nor the Luftfahrt-Bundesamt do work with third parties in order to publish exam questions.

For more information about ECQB and EASA, please look up the following link:

https://www.easa.europa.eu/domains/aircrew-and-medical/european-central-question-bank-ecqb#group-easa-downloads

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If you are going to take the examination within several sittings, you should consider the following: For each examination subject you have 4 attempts in 6 exam sessions. If you do not attend to a summoned session, the trial may still be (under certain circumstances) counted as an attempt.

Example 1: A candidate starts his/her first attempt for an examination subject in the 4th sitting. As there are max. 6 sessions in total, for this subject there will be only 3 attempts max.

Example 2: A candidate has already taken 5 exam sittings, but not passed all subjects. This means, there is only 1 exam sitting left, in which all remaining subjects have to be passed.

Theoretical knowledge can be taken into consideration in order to achieve a pilot license only on the basis of Annex I to Appendix I to Commission Regulation (EU) No 1178/2011. Knowledge obtained at school, university or work is not able to be credited. This does not apply to national allowances.

Crediting according to the new syllabus

Crediting according to the old syllabus

No. Credit can only be given if you take a full IR exam according to FCL.615. If you took a CB-IR exam, subjects 040 and 050 are not taken into consideration.

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Since 1st of August 2022, theoretical examinations to obtain EASA-licences and ratings (ATPL, MPL, CPL, IR, CB-IR , BIR) are only offered in English language.

Examinations to obtain allowances according to national law (flight dispatchers and flight technicians on helicopters) and airship examinations are offered in English and German.

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The period of time starts at the end of the calendar month in which you started an exam for the first time.

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As the CB-IR is a modular training, you have 18 months to complete your training (see Commission Regulation (EU) No 1178/2011, Annex 1, Appendix 1, lit. Aa, no4).

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An exam sitting starts from the moment you have logged into the examination system.

You can find more information in the exam regulations.

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For the sake of equal treatment, all applicants receive the exam results of their sittings only after the complete termination of the exam week and only via postal service. During or directly after a sitting there will not be given any information about the exam running or just being completed.

The exam results are communicated via a reply about the exam session which contains as annex a status sheet and if needed an application form for another exam sitting.

The reply concludes the result of the exam session with “passed”, “not yet passed” or “failed”.

You can find more information in the exam regulations.

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No, an exam once passed cannot be repeated. An exam is counted as “passed” in case you answered 75% of the exam questions correctly.

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In case of dropping out during an exam sitting, the procedure is the same as described under the question “Can I withdraw from an exam?”.

The only difference is, that in case of dropping out during an exam, the examination sitting and the attempts of all subjects you took until dropping out will be counted.

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The candidate may declare his/her withdrawal from the examination by sending an informal email to theoriepruefungen@lba.de.

As a result, the candidate will receive a confirmation of withdrawal and is able to apply for a new examination sitting at another time. In this case, participation at the examination sitting in the examination week having applied for in the first place cannot be claimed anymore.

If the candidate wants to propose another date as substitute together with the withdrawal he/she has to include his/her proposal for the new examination date in the respective e-mail. In this case you will only need a new application form incl. examination recommendation if you choose to take additional subjects.

Conditions:

An examination sitting you withdrew from, will not be counted as one of the attempts of examinations or -sittings.

You will have to pay a fee of 40 € for administrative costs by applying for you next examination sitting though.

There will be no refund of already paid examination fees. The amount already paid will be credited to the fees incurring for the next examination sitting.

Examination subjects that will be repeated in the following examination sitting and which had not been applied for in the examination sitting withdrawn from, will be charged extra by your application for a new examination sitting.

It is not possible to withdraw from an examination already completed or started.

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The inspection of the exam is possible within administrative proceedings reviewing an objection to an administrative act.

To do so, you have to file an objection to the examination results in which you are told the failure in the exam you would like to inspect (within 1 month after reception of the results.) During the inception only exam questions you failed are shown.

Inspection of the exam can only take place on- site, at the Luftfahrtbundesamt.

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Yes. According to the executive order LuftkostV, part VII, Nr. 34a a fee of minimum 40€ up to the total sum of the set fee for the contested official action is levied.

If a protest is withdrawn after the beginning of handling its case, for example after the inspection, the protest will be treated as failed and the fee is due (40€ minimum).

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The exam questions are based on the ECQB (European Central Question Bank) of EASA. The ECQB is property of the EASA and the content is confidential. This is why the Luftfahrtbundesamt only allows the inspection of wrongly answered exam questions in the proceeding of an objection to the results of the exam.

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No. The exam questions are based on the ECQB (European Central Question Bank) of EASA. The ECQB is property of the EASA and the content is confidential. This is why the Luftfahrtbundesamt only allows the inspection of wrongly answered exam questions in the proceeding of an objection to the results of the exam.

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The exam questions are based on the ECQB (European Central Question Bank) of EASA. The ECQB is property of the EASA and the content is confidential. Therefore, the LBA only allow inspection in the frame of an official objection proceeding.

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No. Inspection is only possible at the LBA in Braunschweig.

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The successful completion of the examination of theoretical knowledge is valid:

For the issuing of a license for a professional pilot, instrument rating (IR) or distance instrument rating (EIR) for a period of 36 months, counted from the day on the pilot passes the examination of theoretical knowledge successfully. 

The qualification of the passed theoretical exam for the license as aircraft pilot (ATPL) remains valid until the issuing of a ATPL for a period of 7 years from the date of the last effective date:

1. of an IR registered in the license
2. in case of helicopters, of a type rating for helicopters registered in the license

in order to achieve a basic instrument rating license (BIR) to be valid indefinitely.

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The EASA is running the European Central Question Bank (ECQB), according to which exams are held.

The „new“ syllabus is the syllabus which contains the examination subject „090 Communications“. This syllabus is being examined by using the questions from ECQB 2021. ECQB 2021 is based on the “new” syllabus and the learning objectives which have been published in Amendments 4, 6, 8 and 10 with respect to AMC/GM and to part-FCL (ED Decision 2018/001/R, ED Decision 2018/011/R, ED Decision 2019/017/R and ED Decision 2020/018/R).

There has been introduced a new subject 100 “Knowledge, Skills and Attitudes” (KSA). But this subject will only be taught and examined at the ATOS and not at the LBA.

Please find more information here:

https://www.easa.europa.eu/domains/aircrew-and-medical/european-central-question-bank-ecqb

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Before you register for the last exam session with your first trial you will have to have passed successfully the summative assessments as well as the mental math exams in the area 100 KSA.

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If you do not pass the area 100 KSA within 18 months, the candidate will not be able to be registered for all examination subjects.

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At the LBA you can only take the radiotelephony exams you need in order fulfill the rights of the license you are applying and taking the theoretical exam for.

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It is only possible to take radiotelephony exams outside of Bundesnetzagentur, in the case if a theoretical exam in order to obtain a pilot license or permission at the same time or if the theoretical has already been passed.

Because of capacity reasons, you can only take a radiotelephony exam at the LBA in connection with a theoretical exam also taken at the LBA.

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According to (EU) regulation Nr.  359/2020, the EIR permission has been eliminated at 8th of September 2021. It means that the last time on September 7th 2021 it had been possible to obtain an EIR and to use this rights until latest 8th of September 2022. From 8th of September 2021 on, you have the possibility to obtain a Basic Instrument Rating Permission, due to your training.

All trainings to obtain EIR which were started until 7th of September 2021, will be credited fully to the Basic Instrument Rating permission until 8th of September 2022.

After 8th of September 2022 there will be no EIR permission.

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The BIR has been established on 8th of September 2021. At the same time the EIR has been eliminated.

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You can find more information on the BIR on the EASA website:

https://www.easa.europa.eu/community/topics/basic-instrument-rating-bir-rules-published

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Yes, there is the possibility to take the theoretical exam at the LBA, if you took your training at an ATO of another EU-member state.

In order to do so, you need the following documents:

• Certificate of the ATO at which you completed your training.
• Proof that the ATO is credited for the type of training you accomplished (attachment of the ATO certificate)
• Proof, that the theoretical training had been carried out according to an authorized training program and in the scope demanded in this program 

• In case of a distance learning course: proof of the distance study phase and the classes held in classroom training
• In case of trainings which need a proven already existing license: this license has to be attached in copy
• A written declaration that the candidate is not taking exams in another state at the moment
• Recommendation to take the exam for subjects you are applying for, shown by the signature of the coordinating trainer on the form „Antrag auf Abnahme der Prüfung“ (examination application) , filled out as well with the date you finished the subjects you are applying for (date of the final exam you took at the flight school)

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