METAR reports often appear on the FAA’s Unmanned Aircraft General (UAG) Aeronautical Knowledge Test, so it’s important that you know what they are and how to read them. METAR stands for Meteorological Aerodrome Report. These reports are also commonly called Meteorological Terminal Aviation Routine Weather Reports or just Aviation Routine

Over the last few years, we’ve assisted thousands of drone pilots in passing their Aeronautical Knowledge Test to get an FAA Part 107 Remote Pilot Certificate. And in that time — we’ve learned a lot about what topics our students struggle with 🙂 This may come as no surprise to

Over the last few weeks, I’ve been getting a lot of questions about how to read a VFR Sectional Chart. I think a lot of people are seeing practice questions like this from the FAA’s sample UAG exam, and they’re trying to figure it out if they really need to be

In this post, I want to share some of the more common questions we get from students while they’re preparing for their Aeronautical Knowledge Text. What’s LAANC? The LAANC program is a partnership between the FAA and companies in the drone industry. The FAA supplies the data, and the companies

Your FAA Remote Pilot Certificate has a 24-month shelf life—which means that drone pilots are required to complete the ‘free’ online Part 107 Small UAS Recurrent training course (ALC-677) every 24 calendar months to remain qualified to operate a UAS under part 107. There is no penalty if your currency has expired and

The FAA just published a free online training course called ALC-451: Part 107 Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS). It takes about 2 hours to go through. There are a healthy mix of video and text lectures. The course was built for existing Part 61 licensed manned aircraft pilots who have a current flight