Remote Pilot Exam Engine

Three exams at 85 percent. Then book it.

That is the readiness rule, and measuring it is the one honest thing a question bank can do for you. This engine will not make you better at the test. It tells you whether you are ready to pay for it.

  • $175plus tax to find out from the FAA, once, with a 14 calendar day wait if the answer is no. Thirty-nine dollars to find out first, as many times as you want.
  • 24full exams without repeating a question. The rule only works on questions you have never seen, and 1,447 of them against a 60 question test is 24 of them. A 300 question bank cannot follow the rule at all.

The free sample runs in the same engine as the paid version. Full access, the whole 1,447-question bank, is $39 for the life of the edition and stays yours after you pass, and the sample questions on this page stay free. Progress is saved in this browser only.

Not ready to commit? Try the free 12-question diagnostic →

Example session report

78%Passing47 of 60 correct, passing score 70%

Weather and Loading & Performance draw only a few questions, so treat those scores as rough.

At or above 70%Below 70%: restudyPassing score
Restudy firstAirspaceVol. 1, Chapter 12, §12.7 How a remote pilot actually gets in, then Chapter 17 on airspace symbology. Then drill 25 Airspace questions.

Three feedback modes, plus full practice exams

Set the session before it starts.

1,447 questions weighted to the current test with a rationale for every answer choice, 3,662 flashcards that resurface what you keep missing and a diagnostic that tells you which pages to reread tonight. Choose a knowledge area and subtopic, the number of questions and when you want feedback. Then pick one of three modes.

  • I
    Mark each answer as I go

    See whether you were right after each answer, with the reason every option is right or wrong.

  • II
    Hold everything until the end

    Answer everything, then step through each question and its rationale one at a time.

  • III
    Exam conditions

    Two minutes per question, flags, a review screen and a confirmed submit. No feedback until you finish.

  • IV
    Full practice exam

    Sixty questions weighted to the blueprint, a 120-minute clock (or none) and a 70% passing score.

Sample question, Regulations

A photographer who holds no FAA certificate flies a 240-gram drone to photograph a friend's house at no charge, so the friend can list it for sale. Under which rules is this flight conducted?

Included, not an add-on

The Exam Engine and the flashcards come with the Part 107 Library.

  • 1,447 practice questions, every option explained
  • 3,662 flashcards in 31 decks
  • Three feedback modes plus full practice exams
Get the Part 107 Library, $179

Digital editions and the Exam Engine open the moment you buy.

Flashcards, included
3,662cards in 31 decks Spaced repetition: cards you miss come back soonest, cards you know come back least.
  • ✓Not just an answer: every card gives the reason behind it
  • ✓The FAA rule cited on the card, so you can check the original yourself
  • ✓The exact volume, chapter and section to reread, named on the card
  • ✓Card progress is kept separate from your exam results, so drilling never dents a practice score
Filter any session by knowledge area, by chapter or by your own history: only the questions you have never seen, or only the ones you got wrong last time.The Progress screen charts accuracy by area, a chapter-by-chapter heatmap and the questions giving you trouble.

Why practice questions work.56%Tested themselves42%Reread the materialShare of the material still remembered a week later. Practice testing and spreading study over time are the two techniques rated most effective in a major review of learning research (Dunlosky, 2013 (opens in a new tab)). In one classic study, students who tested themselves remembered 56% of the material a week later, against 42% for students who reread it (Roediger & Karpicke, 2006 (opens in a new tab)). Our questions are original, written to the FAA's published knowledge areas. The FAA keeps its active test questions confidential, so no practice question from any publisher is a real test question.

Set up your first session.

Pick an area, a length and a feedback mode. The engine keeps what you missed and brings it back, and drill work never counts against a practice score.

Open the Exam Engine

When to book the test

A candidate who knows 70 percent of the material fails the 70 percent test about half the time.

That is not a scare line, it is arithmetic. Sixty questions are a sample of what you know, and samples swing. Here is the same hundred candidates at two levels of real mastery.

Each square below is one candidate. A red square is a candidate who walked out of the test center without a certificate. Both grids show the same hundred people, tested at two different levels of real mastery.

70 on practice is not a 70 percent chance of anything.

A practice score reads high, because you have already met those questions. So 70 on practice usually means your real mastery is under 70, and at 70 percent real mastery the test fails about 44 of every 100 people who sit it.

Real mastery: 70%What you actually know, not your practice score

44in 100 like you walk out
without a certificate

Your risk: about a 44 percent chance of failing. A coin flip, on a 175 dollar test fee.

44 failed56 passed

Real mastery: 80%What you actually know, not your practice score

2in 100 like you walk out
without a certificate

Your risk: about a 2 percent chance of failing. One in 45, from a coin flip, for ten more points.

2 failed98 passed

42more people in every 100 walk out without a certificate. That is the difference ten points of real mastery makes, and it is the whole reason to wait until you are ready.
With 1,447 questions against a 60 question test, you can take an unseen exam more than twenty times over. Read the arithmetic behind these numbers →
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