Orientation & Test Registration
What the course covers, the diagnostic, exam format and scoring weights, and what you may bring on test day.
Start with how the UAG knowledge test works, then work through the Remote Pilot Airman Certification Standards area by area: regulations, airspace and sectional charts, weather, loading and performance, and operations. Free-preview members can open Sectional Chart Interpretation and Weather Sources & Effects.
What the course covers, the diagnostic, exam format and scoring weights, and what you may bring on test day.
Why a separate small-drone rule exists, what Part 107 covers, operating categories, eligibility, and conduct that puts a certificate at risk.
Final authority, preflight duties, the altitude, speed, visibility and cloud-clearance limits, right-of-way, and where you may fly.
Registering and marking the aircraft, the preflight checklist and intervention duty, applied altitude and lighting scenarios, and shared-crew limits.
The four operational categories in full, flight over people and moving vehicles, open-air assemblies, and the Remote ID compliance routes.
The logic behind the airspace classes, when ATC authorization is required, reading controlled airspace on a sectional, and special-use areas.
Coordinates, scale and maximum elevation figures, obstructions and the structure exception, terrain and airways, and airport symbology.
Who is transmitting and what it means, traffic patterns and where risk concentrates, airport data sources, the non-interference duty, and runway markings.
Pressure systems and air masses, reading METAR, TAF and ASOS/AWOS, stability, fronts and inversions, and hazards specific to a small UAS.
Where loading limits come from, load factor and the stall, and using payload and endurance data to plan a flight.
The five hazardous attitudes, IMSAFE, PAVE and CRM, task management and situational awareness, physiology and illusions, and battery safety.
What a practice exam actually proves, the readiness rule, reading your weak-area report, and the final week before the testing center.
What Part 108 is, where the rulemaking stands, and why it does not change anything you are studying now.
Registering your aircraft, the 24-month recurrent requirement, LAANC access, building a real preflight checklist, and state and local law.
The September 2025 blueprint change, the FAA's possible unscored validation questions, and the October 2026 transition to images embedded in UAG test questions.
The highest-yield numbers, rules and exam traps from every lesson, condensed for a final review pass.
Every exam trap already written into the lessons, gathered in one place for a fast final-review pass.