Part 107. How to pass the 107. How to get your Drone License. Part 107 License. Part 107 study guide
hi guys I passed the 107 with a 90 this is
the post-test car interview that everyone traditionally does I didn't pay for any course
just studied the FAA study guide and watched a bunch of online videos and if you watch this
video you'll learn everything you need to know to pass your 107. yeah don't waste your time
doing practice tests just learn the material know your airspace know your risk management
and your frequencies and you'll probably pass a lot of those practice questions none of that
was on my test everyone wants to type use these practice tests and I totally disagree because
and you don't need to pay hundreds of dollars to take this everything you need to know is in
that FAA study guide all you got to do is read it remember there's only three questions and you
only have to get a 70. okay once you successfully complete the test on the PSAs as soon as you
take your test results you have to transfer from PSI to the faa's website and something
that no one tells you on any of the videos I have watched is you have to complete a background
check the FAA is going to do a background check on you which can take up to 10 days before you'll
be issued your temporary Airman certificate and then it can take up to two months before
you get your plastic I'm going to do the post-test talk in the car like everyone does
you know a little disappointed at 90 percent I got aggravated at the trick questions several
of them I didn't know so the following is what was on the test so I studied for a long time
on metars and tafts I only had two questions one question was on a tap and one was a Metar
one question was how long is the TAF valid for the other one I really don't remember what the
other one was it it was ridiculously simple um some trick questions about where a ceiling
starts and they use terms I didn't know a lot on loading the aircraft if you put weight there was
three questions on Center gravity and loading the aircraft if you put the weight behind the aircraft
What's it gonna do high Bank turns uh what's that going to do to your aircraft tons and tons and
I mean like 15 questions on risk management I wasn't sure whether to hit they had a bunch of
other terms and I really just skimmed through all that through the book matter of fact let's go
look at it there was a couple questions on that um standard temperature and if the temperature was
above standard temperature how will that affect your aircraft there were questions on weight there
were two or three questions on weight if you put the weight behind the center of gravity there were
a couple questions on adding a light and if you about how much weight you could add how adding
weight past the center of gravity how how will that affect the performance of the plane all right
I had one question on that which is pretty simple because they give you the chart to the side one
question the only question I used a calculator for there was a question on this load factor in steep
turns emergency there was a question on that when can you deviate from part 107 I'm just I'm trying
to do this when it's fresh in my mind because I'm going to I'm fast gonna forget it so there were
12 questions I bookmarked oh what frequency if the tower does not have if the airport does
not have a listed frequency what frequency will should the planes communicate on better know
your frequencies there were some questions on that temperature and what it's going to do to Common
Sense questions on alcohol I didn't have any on that I don't know if I should go through this or
not I did have a couple questions On the Hazardous attitudes I think two the risk management they
had a whole bunch of other terms and I didn't know if I should put CRM ADM I don't know it's
you know they're one on emergency procedures the two questions should you contact the landowner or
have alternative landing strip or I forget what the next one was this is your ADM and I didn't
study any of that like I said it was mainly there was some on that stress and work overload
too I would say the majority of my test was this it was Finding Towers how far you had to measure
your towers and you could add 400 to it and see if you could operate if you could fly some of the
towers were actually into class Charlie airspace some weren't some were in Delta some weren't
so and you need to know Class E airspace pretty good too I did not have a single not a single
longitude and latitude question not a one I did have four questions regarding flying over people
and remote ID uh one question upon class one class two the four classes of drones and asking
questions about that and flying over people and I don't know about what what class two do you have
to have what do you got to have on a Class 2 drone to fly over people none on this military none
of nothing on Military okay I did have one VR a bit tons of stuff on ceilings a trick question
on it was a trick question but it was basically coming down to what your the only minimum what
was the minimum to fly a drone basically it was a trick question it was talking about an airport but
sheer uh questions on Shear work and Shear occur and like I said there were questions on this angle
of attack and adding weight to the aircraft what there was a couple questions about fog and when
that's going to occur but it's sort of outsurgent sort of generic I did not get one single question
on stable air and unstable air that everybody talks about there there was two questions on this
and I'm not sure if I got them right or not the ceiling for Aviator purposes the ceiling is the
lowest level of clouds reported as being broken or overcast or vertical visibility yeah that
yeah okay I got it right but they were throwing out these terms that I weren't sure I think one of
them about loading their craft had to do with your take off effects on the wings of an airplane I
mean we're flying drones right oh well so anyways guys it wasn't really that hard my prep I was
saying you should study this but what you're going to actually be ask is one question out of here
actually my question's answer was right there had to do with timing and I forget what the other one
about instead of wasting your time with practice tests download the test booklet off the fa's
website you'll find it there go through it okay you need to learn this memorize it okay it will be
in your test booklet some advice I have something I wish I would have done I had heard this advice
before bring a FAA approved magnifying glass where they put me during the test was a really dark
cubicle between two fluorescent lights and I was having a really hard time seeing this and if
I would have had a magnifying glass especially the the charts the charts are picked it's not
an actual chart it's a picture in a book and I was having a hard time in the Darkness at this
test cubicle reading some of this stuff I could have I got at least five or six questions you can
figure them out by looking at the legend there's a lot of information in here that you can use
when you're asked when you're taking the test okay this is going to be on the test it's the
only time I used a calculator you will have at least one question from this so I was trying to
figure out so you need to go and print off this right here here's your TAF your question this
is the TAF that's going to be in the book so if there's anything here that you don't know I mean
this is the this is the question they're going to ask you it's either going to be this one
or this one so you need to know what all this means like I said I only get got two questions on
metars and Taft where's the Metar okay here's the Metar that's going to be on the test you're going
to have a question from this so you need to know what all of this means or be able to figure it
out if you go through you don't need to learn if it's not on this right here you don't need
to memorize it but you probably need to know what ra what BR what scattered 15 statutory
miles what SKC means all of your there was at least two questions on this chart right here
or sectional this one here this was on there so be familiar with it uh two or
three questions were on this one so be familiar with this guide go over it you're going to need to know about Center of
gravities and center of pressure and adding weight so you can actually go through the actual test
booklet and they're going to say they're going to ask you a question about a tower and as
you can see the print is really small and having a magnifying glass would be quite
helpful but they're going to ask you to measure like for instance they're going to say something
about a tower so far from here you need to know what this means and you need to know what this
means and what this means and the bands of your airspace here you need to know you need to know
your airspace really well I mean we're talking 15 20 questions are going to be about airspace
you better be able to decipher this right here this here this here drone coach has a really good
graphic that if you haven't memorized it already you really should you need to know the difference
between Class C and class G airspace and know that one's controlled and one's uncontrolled you need
to know the difference between what goes up there and there there are some questions about that and
that you need to know refer to in the airspace will be helpful to know that class D airspace
is has a radius of 5 miles or 10 miles across and you're stair stepping of your upside down
wedding cake that's five miles that's 10 miles you also need to know that that's MSL and Class B is
going to go up to 100 MSL unless otherwise noted you need to know the maximum speed of a drone
is 87 knots or 100 miles per hour I believe the only thing you really need to know on that is you
must have a minimum of three miles of visibility so you're going to have a lot of questions
there'll be like a tower that's going like that and you need to know if you can fly that tire
without ATC authorization or what if the tower is here what if the tower goes like that because
typically you can fly 400 feet above a tower and that's going to put you into Class C
airspace so you're going to have to fill figure all that out see drum coach is giving
you this right here telling you that you know you got a tower here but you can fly up
to that Tower is a thousand feet across you can fly up to 1400 feet but where's
that going to put you if if you're going to be penetrating that airspace right there
but you're going to have lots of questions 20 percent of my test probably was on airspace
and airspace authorizations can you operate a drone if you are not car
if your 107 is not current and you operate what the
supervision of someone who he is what is covered in the 107 they kept talking about
civil civil and public what is The Flash sequence for anti-collision light at night what do you
do if your anti-collision lights go off how much weight can you put on your drone like
adding speakers or cameras if you're letting someone else fly your drone and they've been
drinking Within so many hours are they allowed to fly if you crash your drone what do you
have to do if you crash and burn your drone what do you do about the Drone registration
do you have to report your drone if you crash it but don't damage any other property category
one flying over people what is the requirement a little bit there was one on setting your drone up
using a bright light and then what should you do said lots of stuff on risk
management what is autonomous crew Resource Management the blue line
which is a flight path and it had a a blue square underneath of it when I looked in
the legend I saw that is the distance in between your VOR spots its mileage how far between
so yeah I know what Unicom and multi-com is I just I'd memorize those 122 frequency 122
frequencies just memorize right away if you're flying around an airport what's the right-of-way
for aircraft in the air and on the ground they had you look up an airport
that was in Colorado it did have Flight Services and it um a rotating Beacon
but it did not have a control tower frequency and the question was about can you operate your
drone at that airport when there was no there was no classified airspace if it's a part-time class
D Airport in other words it's got the C after on your frequency you'll have your CT Dash the
control Tire frequency and then you will have a blue C and A star one of the questions
wanted to know what the blue sea was for and another question wanted to know about
it's a Class D airspace airport class D airspace around the airport but the control
tower shuts down at noon shuts down at dark is it still a Class D airport does it remain
class D or does it go to class E and G if the control tower is not
operational if the temperature goes up does your drone does its efficiency
go up or down so I really it three-fourths of the stuff
I studied was not on there the Tony's awesome video all that stuff
about separations was not on there all those distances was not on there when
do you when can you deviate from part 107 so if you're flying you have authorization
to fly but an aircraft is headed your way what are you supposed to do so I would
say that three-fourths of the questions if you knew your airspace and knew your risk
management and you knew your frequencies common sense you would pass the test there's 60 Questions
and it took me an hour and it took me less than an hour and then I spent about 20 minutes going
through the questions that I had bookmarked they do almost strip search you going in you got to
lock everything in a locker you can't even take your billfold in one of the recommendations
somebody had on a YouTube channel and I do recommend it is to bring a magnifying glass
and my other complaint which I complained about um after the test was she had me I was like in
between fluorescent lights and I was having a it was the booklet was really dark I was having
a a really hard time seeing the booklet in the fine print gotta they're not giving you an
actual chart they're giving you a booklet that's got pictures of the chart where so the
Legends actually smaller than what it normally is on the ledge and on an actual sectional
chart I didn't have any of those questions on I didn't have any about Runway patterns
approaches any of that stuff left right hand downwind crosswind base final I didn't have
any of those questions there's no reason to memorize all those abbreviations in Metar and
Taps either because none of that stuff was in there like I said I I didn't have any longitude
and latitude didn't have a single question and I I didn't I was going to use it to
measure but I didn't I just went to the ruler at the top of the page piece of paper
the only math question was it was like a 400 it was like a 400 foot Tower and you can go
400 feet above that 400 so that would be 800 feet and you were in class you were under a Class
C air space there was a really difficult one know the height of the the lowest shelf
and it was like in a clot like Dallas Class B airspace that had all kinds of airports
under it and that one was real difficult because you were in between Class D airspace and it was
hard to see where the what does your remote ID transmit when you put your remote remote ID
on what's it going to do when do you turn it on there was another quick trick question about
remote ID and I think what they're going to do is these my drone doesn't have a remote ID but I
think what they're going to try and do is do it through software through the controller and the
question was it was something about that using the you're pre-underway check there was a question
about that there was a question about class twos certificate of compliance and flying over people
I had a question about I think there was 12 that I bookmarked and when I went back some advice when
I went back I went back through there like twice and I saw that I had 12 bookmarked but I couldn't
remember how many you were allowed to take and at this point I was getting real aggravated
because I was getting aggravated at the blatant trick questions I mean they were
just they were trying to trick you I had 12 bookmarks but when I went back
I only changed I think I changed one of my answers otherwise I kept going through them
and I just left them and then I was aggravated I just went ahead and submitted my test I
forgot how many I was allowed to miss but um I mean I knew I passed at that point and
it's like what difference does the score really make you know yeah I'd like to get 100
I could brag about it I did get a 90 which if it wasn't for the trick questions I would
have gotten 100 so your general taste test taking skills you can more or less you have a
50 50 percent chance on most of the questions because one of them is just totally wrong
and then your others a lot of them would be above ground level or MSL or AGL so like I said you better know your you better memorize that air spec I think it's
drone school or somebody has a really really good graphic of airspace that more than what the FAA
does and you more or less need to memorize that I got tired of I scheduled my exam two days ago I
got tired of studying for it and watching YouTube videos and like I said I did not take any course
I mean if if you're a pilot and you know airspace you could probably pass this test with guessing
I don't know just hurried up and scheduled it went took it on my day off and it's going to be a
rainy day so I couldn't go hunting or trapping or any of the fun things in life
if you guys want my notes um I will make them available good luck guys good
luck the effects of caffeine and alcohol you need to know that and it affects of decongestants so
here's my notes right here minimum weather it's three miles particip precipitation static full
Corona static you're in here static on the radio thermal plumes such as smokestacks there's no
Tums there's burdums snow Tams and Ash Tams like a volcano explodes 1 800 weather
brief.com aviationweather.gov tfr.
Faa.gov high pressure systems are
going to go clockwise low pressure system is going to go counterclockwise
for every thousand feet that you go in elevation temperature is going to drop 2.5
degrees Fahrenheit or 2 degrees Celsius every 20 feet every 20 degrees doubles
the amount of water that air can hold Your Standard air pattern is a left-hand turn
there's your right okay you got your downwind base final crosswind Unicom is for ordering fuel
or ordering rental cars as so is pre-recorded weather briefings runways are always in
Magnetic North Towers the first number is MSL the next number is above the ground if you
see a UC that means they're under construction a dashed magenta is Class E airspace airspace
is always in mean scene level the Asos refers to Auto surface observation system it's a generic
Metar when you're doing your latitude if you need to measure on the test you can use your latitude
scale and each tick mark is one mile one mile is one one minute of latitude awos is what private
airports will use It's Autumn Auto weather observation system learn that figure 12 and 13
in the supplement if you see a RAB 35 that means rain began 35 minutes after after the hour you
can fly over Towers you can fly up to 400 feet over a tower but you can't go into airspace clouds
must be 2 000 feet below or two thousand feet side to side or 500 feet below the clouds not closer
than two thousand feet laterally the ceiling is defined by the lowest level of unbroken clouds
pave is an acronym for risk stands for pilot aircraft environmental external pressure pave
pilot aircraft environment or external pressures uh you might want to know the radius of Class
C airspace the radius of most airspace is five miles for each circle class D is five miles
from the airport to the outer ring then your class B and C Class B is going to have two rings
so it's going to be 10 miles and Class B is going to have three rings so it's going to be a 15 mile
radius first thing you do when you get in there is use your paper as a ruler take your go to your
longitude and latitude lines and or on the bottom there the scale and Mark it off on your paper
humidity decreases your aircraft's performance um a dash magenta means not towered your
air on your airports CT means control tower that's your frequency if you see a star that
means part-time and when the tower is closed that number is referred to as your ctaf which
is your common traffic advisory frequency density altitude pressure goes up density
of air goes up aircraft performance goes up density altitude down okay those are your
variables so if your temperature goes up your density of your air is going to go up your
aircraft performance is going to go down increase in altitude your altitude goes up
your density of air is going to go down your aircraft performance is going to go down and
hence the density altitude goes up humidity causes a decrease in density of the air
your aircraft performance is going to go down and your density altitude goes up you
must register your drone every three years the center center of gravity is really make
really only going to affect your aircraft at low speeds at high speeds think of an F-15
and all the tricks they can do at high speed your airports are magnetic you're going to add
a zero to the direction of the airport so Runway one three is really Runway 130 magnetic going down
Runway 4 is going to be 40 degrees magnetic going that way remember planes always land into the wind
and if there's more than one Runway they're going to be left Center and right and so runways
are numbered from 1 to 36 your standard day conditions are sea level is 15 degrees Celsius
or 59 degrees Fahrenheit and that's 20.29.92 millimeter milligrams of mercury or 10101 3.2
millibars your density altitude is the changes from this this is your standard date conditions
and your density altitude is is that going up or down if your density goes up your density
altitude goes up the density of air goes down so your air performance what are the following
reasons that could cause a no-tam to be issued pay stands for pilot air crew environment external
factors all right 500 feet below the clouds 2 000 feet from the clouds 2 000 feet from
guidewires 100 miles per hour is the max you can go on your drone must have a minimum of three
stats you must have a minimum of three statute miles you must register your drone if it's 0.55 to
55 pounds uh 13 years of age to register a drone 16 years of age to take the test eight hours since
your last alcohol and your blood must be below 0.04 you must wait one year after a Narcotics
conviction if you do more than five hundred dollars in damage you must file an accident
report with the FAA within 10 days once again your airport here we're on Final your Runway is
going this the wind's going to go this way that's downwind that's your base that's your final that's
departure crosswind planes usually come in at a planes are going to come in at a 45 degree angle
go into the downward downwind leg make a left turn then they're going to go down the base make
another left turn and then they're going to land and if they're doing a touch and go they're
going to then the departure leg this is a left hand Runway this is a right hand Runway how do
you operate in an MOA operate in Extreme Caution in an active MOA section X of the supplemental
chart will tell you what to find what kind of activity is taking place in there you must
show your 107 certificate and an ID to any Authority that asks for it what is what is the
purpose of the rudder it's to change the the yaw in other words your Rudder goes here make it go
like this sealing a cloud cover lowest a broken or over class but not thin what are the only kind
of clouds mentioned on a TAF they're broken Metar question are RAB 35 means rain began 35 minutes
after the hour your lungs lines of latitude you're going to see your one lines going to be
numbered here we got a 98 then every tick mark is one to one minute and you're going to have a
larger tick mark at 10 so we're going to have our long line going length of the chart then we're
going to go 10 20 30.
Okay but there's not going to be a number on 30 40 50 60 and then there
will be another number on that one they grow up they go from the numbers go up from east to
west Greenwich Greenwich England equator zero and that's it guys if you memorize that you
will pass your 107. highlights from the study manual a b and c and d airspace is all mean sea
level but Class E airspace is above ground level it either has a ceiling begins at 700 feet AGL or
1200 feet AGL and goes all the way up to 1800 feet the reason for that is for IFR conditions and to
keep separation Class B airspace is a surface to 10 000 feet Class C airspace is the surface to
four thousand feet the outer ring is 10 nautical miles class D airspace once again it's five
miles radius from the airport it's a surface to 2500 feet above the MSL above the airport
class E airspace which we were just talking about okay you can't fly an A B C or D without
ATF ATC authorization okay Class E you can okay but Class E is the majority of the United States
there's all kinds of stuff about it here class G airspace is totally uncontrolled prohibited areas
are highlighted with a p and four and you can look at the chart supplement for what the 40 means P40
that's prohibited you cannot enter it National Mall Camp David the examples they give restricted
areas have the R's there okay warning areas three nautical miles outwards from the coast you have
your military operation areas moas alert areas and they have a dash and then the number to look it
up in the supplement controlled flying areas and that's and then you have all your like parachuting
stuff but anyways so another interesting thing a lot of national parks you cannot fly a drone
and as you can see here you can't get within 2000 feet of at the above the ground level we have
tethered balloons that can go up to 60 000 feet military training routes I think you're probably
going to see a question on that you get the IRS and the vrs vrs are for visual flight
rules IRS is instrument flight rules and they can be going up to 200 knots in speed and
you're just going to see them on the chart there and that their designations okay we have the tfrs
they're going to be in the no Toms flight flight restrictions we have bird Tams bird Tams we've got
I think I went through that already okay weather we have metars like I said the best thing for you
to do is go through this page and read this page try and figure it out but you print out here's all
your definitions and you print out the page that's going to be in the book and they can still get you
on questions because this is crazy that you need to memorize all this stuff taps or your terminal
air Dome forecast and they are reported for a five mile radius around the airport and it's valid for
24 to 30 hour time period and they do they update it four times a day if you see a prob 30 that
means a 30 percent probability of thunderstorms density altitude as the density of air increases
which produces a lower density altitude your air calf performance increases the lower you get to
the ground also it's going to increase that's the way I try and remember air into the air density
decreases higher density altitude your aircraft performance decreases high density altitude refers
to the thin air while low density altitude refers to dense air increasing the temperature of a
substance decreases its density water vapor is lighter than air moist air is lighter than drier
relative humidity once you get a hundred percent re relative humidity no more Vapor can be held in
them air if weight is added to an aircraft it must fly at a higher angle of attack to maintain
a given altitude and speed low wind shear
