Aviation & Drones

Flying a drone for any purpose beyond personal recreation puts you under federal aviation rules, and the FAA's Part 107 remote pilot certificate is what those rules require. It opens the door to paid work in real estate photography, roof and infrastructure inspection, surveying and mapping, agriculture, and video production — fields where the certificate is the difference between a hobby and an invoice.

Unlike most licenses, this one is a single knowledge test — there is no flight check and no requirement to own an aircraft first. What it does demand is real aeronautical knowledge: how the National Airspace System is layered, how to read a sectional chart and convert between height above the ground and altitude above sea level, how to decode a METAR, what density altitude does to a loaded aircraft, and how a crew keeps an aircraft in sight and reacts when a link is lost.

Because the rules are federal, what you study applies in every state — a rare thing among the licenses on this site, and the reason the material stays worth learning properly. Every question here appears in English, Simplified Chinese, and Spanish with the same explanation, so you can settle unfamiliar aeronautical concepts in the language you think in before reading them the way the test will word them.