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Regulations
1. What is the difference in the location information broadcast by a Standard Remote ID drone versus a drone equipped with a Remote ID broadcast module?
Why: A Standard Remote ID drone is produced with built-in broadcast capabilities that provide identification and location information about the drone and the control station. A Remote ID broadcast module, by contrast, broadcasts identification and location information about the drone and its take-off location. This distinction matters operationally: the control station location is more dynamic (it updates as the pilot moves), while the take-off location is a fixed point established at the start of the flight.
2. A remote pilot's Category 3 drone has a category label that has become faded and partially illegible after prolonged sun exposure. What must the remote pilot do before conducting operations over human beings?
Why: If a Category 2 or Category 3 label is damaged, destroyed or missing, the remote pilot in command must relabel the aircraft in English, so that the label is legible, prominent and will remain on the aircraft for the duration of the operation, before flying over human beings. The label must correctly identify the category the aircraft is eligible for. There is no report to file with the FAA for a worn label, and removing it does not help: without a legible label the aircraft is not eligible for the operation, whether or not anyone inspects it.
3. What is the typical vertical extent of Class C airspace?
Why: Class C airspace normally extends from the surface to 4,000 feet above the airport elevation, charted in MSL. The 2,500-foot figure belongs to Class D, the airspace around smaller airports with an operating control tower. Surface to 10,000 feet MSL is the typical shape of Class B, around the busiest airports. Each Class C area's actual dimensions are shown on the sectional chart.
4. A remote pilot is operating at a location whose field elevation is 3,200 ft MSL. The drone's altimeter reads 3,550 ft MSL. What is the drone's altitude above ground level?
Why: Height above ground is the MSL altitude minus the ground elevation: 3,550 - 3,200 = 350 ft AGL. The other options come from subtracting the wrong elevation (3,000 or 3,400 ft) instead of the actual field elevation.
5. A remote pilot has completed the updated recurrent training and plans a night operation. The drone is equipped with anti-collision lighting visible for at least 3 statute miles. Which statement is correct?
Why: Since the 2021 rule change, a waiver is not required for an otherwise compliant routine night operation when the remote pilot in command has satisfied the applicable initial knowledge test or training requirement under 14 CFR 107.65 and the aircraft has anti-collision lighting visible for at least 3 statute miles with a flash rate sufficient to avoid a collision (107.29). The light may be dimmed when the remote PIC determines that doing so is in the interest of safety, but it may not be extinguished. The 'waiver still required' option is wrong because routine night operations no longer depend on a waiver, and the 'full intensity at all times' option is wrong because the rule expressly allows the intensity to be reduced for safety.
6. Before a Part 107 operation, the remote PIC is required to assess the operating environment. Which of the following is NOT part of that required operating-environment assessment?
Why: Battery charge level is not one of the items in the operating-environment assessment required by 14 CFR 107.49(a). That assessment covers local weather, local airspace and flight restrictions, persons and property on the surface, and other ground hazards. Available power is addressed separately in 107.49(d), which requires the remote PIC to ensure that a powered small UAS has enough available power for the intended operational time.
7. A remote PIC has completed every manufacturer-recommended maintenance and inspection procedure, and all pass. During a final visual check, the PIC notices a hairline crack in the airframe near a motor mount. The manufacturer's manual does not list this specific inspection point. What must the PIC do?
Why: Under 14 CFR 107.15(a), no person may operate a civil small UAS unless it is in a condition for safe operation, and before each flight the remote PIC must check it and determine that it meets that standard. Completing the manufacturer's checklist does not override a defect found during the inspection. A crack near a motor mount could affect structural integrity, so it must be evaluated or corrected before the aircraft is operated; the checklist is a tool for determining safe condition, not permission to ignore a defect observed independently. Flying slower does not make an unsafe aircraft safe.
8. For a drone subject to Remote ID requirements, with no Remote ID equipment and no separate FAA authorization to deviate, where may it be flown?
Why: A drone that must meet Remote ID but has no Remote ID equipment may fly only inside a FRIA, with the aircraft and the person manipulating the controls inside the FRIA and the aircraft within visual line of sight. There is no exception for private property or for uncontrolled (Class G) airspace. Drones not subject to registration or Remote ID requirements, and separately authorized operations, are outside this question.
9. A client asks a remote pilot to carry a container of hazardous material with a small UAS. Under Part 107, which statement is correct?
Why: Section 107.36 prohibits a small unmanned aircraft from carrying hazardous material. It is not on the list of waivable rules in section 107.205, so an ordinary Part 107 waiver cannot authorize it; relief would require an exemption under 14 CFR part 11. Packaging the material to DOT standards does not change the prohibition.
10. A remote pilot holds a Part 107 waiver for operations over people and wants to fly without broadcasting Remote ID. Which statement is correct?
Why: A Part 107 waiver covers only the Part 107 sections listed in 107.205. Remote ID is a separate rule: no person may operate without meeting the Remote ID requirements except as otherwise authorized by the Administrator or in an FAA-recognized identification area (14 CFR 89.105). The FAA gives that authorization separately and only for limited purposes, such as aeronautical research, so holding a Part 107 waiver of any kind does not remove the Remote ID requirement.
This test: Regulations 6 · Operations 2 · Airspace 2. The real FAA exam is weighted Regulations 48%, Operations 25%, Airspace 20%, Weather 5%, Loading and performance 2%; this practice set does not yet match that mix, so give regulations and operations extra study.