The Night Rating theoretical knowledge course does not specify minimum instruction hours, but Royal Flight Center recommends the amount of 1-2 hours of classroom, video teleconferencing training or CBT Training.
Theoretical Knowledge Syllabus
- Night VMC minima
- Rules about airspace control at night and facilities available
- Rules about aerodrome ground, runway, and obstruction lighting
- Aircraft navigation lights and collision avoidance rules
- Physiological aspects of night vision and orientation
- Dangers of disorientation at night
- Dangers of weather deterioration at night
- Instrument systems or functions and errors
- Instrument lighting and emergency cockpit lighting systems
- Map marking for use under cockpit lighting
- Practical navigation principles
- Radio navigation principles
- Planning and use of safety altitude, and
- Danger from icing conditions, as well as from avoidance and escape manoeuvres