The hiring stage after the licence. 4,878 questions across 74 chapters, spread across the whole technical ground Indian carriers set at the written stage — from aerodynamics to human performance.
The paper
The entrance paper on AIVR CPL is 50 questions worth 2 marks each in 3 hours — a deliberately long clock for a short paper, because airline written tests reward accuracy over speed and are usually broader than any single DGCA subject.
What's inside
Every question is auto-graded, tagged with the chapter it came from and marked Theory or Numerical. Wrong answers are filed in your mistakes bank automatically, per subject.
Principles of flight, lift, drag and the flight envelope, stability, stalling and high-speed flight, aircraft performance across every phase, and the mass, balance and payload work that recruitment papers reliably include.
Air law and the regulatory framework, rules of the air, licensing, operational procedures, and the flight planning questions — the ground a carrier expects you to have retained from the licence papers.
General navigation, chart and plotting work, the standard numericals, plus the radio navigation aids — ADF, VOR, DME, ILS, radar, GNSS and RNAV — at the level a written test sets them.
Aviation weather across the syllabus, and the instrument suite — pitot-static, gyroscopic, compass and the electronic displays — with the interpretation questions recruitment papers favour over pure theory.
Piston and jet engines, fuel pressure and temperature, aircraft systems generally, fire protection and extinguishing, and the emergency equipment and oxygen questions that appear more often at interview than in the licence papers.
Human factors and limitations, physiology, hypoxia and pressure effects, vision and illusions, fatigue and duty, decision making and crew resource management — the largest single group in the bank, and the one candidates most often skip.
Before you start
A licence gets you to the written test, not past it. Indian carriers set their own paper at the hiring stage, and it is broader and faster than any single DGCA subject — a little of everything, with no warning about which everything.
This bank exists so that breadth is something you have practised rather than something you discover on the day.
74 chapters spanning aerodynamics, air law, navigation, radio navigation, communication, meteorology, instruments, performance, mass and balance, piston and jet engines, systems, emergency equipment and human performance.
Human performance is the largest group here, and deliberately so — it is heavily examined at the hiring stage and lightly revised by most candidates.
Entrance papers are sat months or years after the licence papers, and they ask the same fundamentals. The reliable losses are decayed knowledge, not difficult questions — the ISA arithmetic, the standard nav formulae, the annexes, the load factor relationships.
Because every wrong answer is filed by chapter, one long diagnostic set tells you exactly which subject has decayed.
Start with a broad test-mode set to find the weak areas rather than starting at chapter one. Then repair them using the dedicated subject banks — Navigation, Meteorology, Technical General and Air Regulations are all here and all far deeper.
Come back for the 50-question paper once the weak areas have moved.
Inside a question
Every MCQ is graded the moment you answer it, and the explanation shows the reasoning rather than just the correct letter.
Pick an option and get instant right or wrong with the correct answer revealed — except in exam mode, which reveals nothing until you submit.
Numericals carry the governing equation on its own line, so you can revise by formula before you revise by question.
Worked step by step from the given data to the answer, with nothing skipped.
Every question carries its chapter and whether it is theory or a numerical, so a wrong answer tells you what to revise.
The angle of attack at which an aerofoil stalls:
Worked solution
Questions about the questions
The other 14
4,878 Airline Entrance Exam questions, 74 chapters and a full 50-question paper — waiting, and costing nothing.