How our content is built.

The structure — subjects, topics, sub-topics, learning objectives — matches the official EASA Easy Access Rules for Aircrew, subpart FCL.050(H) 1:1. That is public EU law and therefore freely usable as a learning framework. National theory exams for the PPL(H) are built on the same syllabus.

We don't copy texts from the syllabus — we only orient ourselves on the learning objectives.

When researching material for a learning objective, we draw on publicly accessible, professionally authoritative sources:

• EASA Easy Access Rules — regulations, AMC and Guidance Material (public EU law).
• Aeronautical Information Publication (AIP) — airspace, procedures, frequencies of the respective authority (BAZL/LBA/Austro Control). Public.
• Meteorological Open Government Data — weather data and bulletins of national met services under free licence.
• ICAO / EUROCONTROL Skybrary — aviation safety knowledge base, publicly accessible.
• FAA Handbooks (US Public Domain) — e.g. Helicopter Flying Handbook. Public domain in the US.

Commercial textbooks (Pooleys, AFE, Jeppesen and similar) we deliberately don't name and don't work from — not even via the AI detour. They are copyrighted and belong in the hands of their authors.

Every card is an independent didactic formulation. The process:

1. 1

   Generation against the syllabus

   State-of-the-art AI language models generate card and question drafts directly from the EASA learning objective — not from a concrete textbook.

2. 2

   Second-pass QA

   A second model pass checks every draft against our internal source notes: is the content right? Does the pitfall land? Is the explanation correct?

3. 3

   FI review before public status

   Before a card is released to Pro users, it goes through a human flight-instructor review.

4. 4

   User flags

   Every card and exam question has a flag button. Errors, ambiguities, outdated content — all of it lands in the admin backlog and gets fixed.

A card is neither a translation nor a summary of a specific textbook. It is an own formulation against an EASA learning objective, editorially controlled. A source citation would wrongly suggest the text was taken from a concrete work — that wouldn't be technically or legally clean.

Want to read the original material? The EASA syllabus is public, the AIP is public, Skybrary is public. We link them in guide articles where it helps.

Aero.Academy is a study aid, not a replacement for the official documents of the responsible aviation authority or theory training at an ATO. For the official exam, the official course of your flight school is what counts — we help you deepen and retain what you learn there.