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The 2025 Part 107 Test Blueprint: Where the Points Are
✓ Reviewed against current FAA sources on September 27, 2026
In this guide
In short
Under the blueprint effective September 29, 2025, regulations are about 48 percent of the Part 107 knowledge test, roughly 29 of the 60 scored questions. Weight your study hours to match, because weather is worth about three.
The FAA publishes how the remote pilot knowledge test is weighted across its knowledge areas. Under the blueprint effective September 29, 2025, the balance tilts heavily toward regulations. How you spend your study time should reflect that.
The weighting
Share of the 60 scored questions. Bars are drawn to the largest area, Regulations at 48 percent.
The FAA's August 2025 Airman Testing Community Advisory made the older blueprint in the Remote Pilot ACS obsolete and pointed applicants to PSI's current information bulletin. Check that bulletin for the latest version before you test: PSI UAG Information Bulletin (opens in a new tab), effective September 29, 2025.
What each area covers
Regulations (48%)
Part 107 itself: who needs a certificate, the operating limits of §107.51 (opens in a new tab), visual line of sight, operations over people and at night, waivers and authorizations, registration, Remote ID, safety event reporting and the rules on drugs and alcohol. See Part 107 rules at a glance.
Operations (25%)
Airport operations and radio communications, crew resource management, aeronautical decision-making, physiology, emergency procedures and maintenance. Many questions are scenarios: what should the remote pilot do next?
Airspace (20%)
The airspace classes, when authorization is required under §107.41 (opens in a new tab), special use airspace, TFRs and NOTAMs, and reading sectional charts. Most airspace questions ask you to read a chart. See how to read a sectional chart.
Weather (5%)
Weather theory, hazards and reading METARs and TAFs.
Loading and Performance (2%)
Weight and balance, load factor in turns and density altitude.
What it means for your study plan
A missed Regulations question costs the same point as a missed Loading and Performance question, but Regulations carry 48 percent of the test against 2 percent, about twenty-four times the weight. Know the rules cold.
Low weighting does not mean you can skip a topic. Each area draws only a handful of questions from a large pool, and you cannot know in advance which ones you will see. The right plan is proportional study: deep in Regulations, solid in Operations and Airspace, and sure-footed on the few Weather and Loading and Performance items.
How a 20 hour plan divides. Bars are drawn to the largest block.
Airspace gets more time than its 20 percent weight suggests, because chart reading is a skill you build with practice, not a list of facts you memorize.
The October 26, 2026, change
Since October 26, 2026, the remote pilot test has included image-based questions that are not in the testing supplement. The FAA's published samples are sectional chart excerpts. Practice reading current charts, including symbols, airspace boundaries and airport data blocks.
The FAA's own study guide is out of date
The FAA's free Remote Pilot Study Guide (FAA-G-8082-22) dates from August 2016. It predates rules that now appear on the test, including operations over people, night operations and Remote ID. Use it as background, but study from current material.