I have a friend in the commercial real estate business and wanted to be able to take some photos and videos for him, so after getting my Mavic Mini last week and finding out what the rules are, I started looking at Part 107 videos Sunday night. The one that really convinced me quickly that I could probably pass the test without taking one of the many paid courses around was Tony Northrup's free study guide, which is 1:43 in length found here:
It's pretty detailed, but presented in a very casual manner and includes a lot of advice on how to approach the questions. I watched it all the way through and then spent the next couple of days reviewing a few others briefly and looking at videos and websites of practice questions. The practice question site I found the most helpful was here: Free Part 107 Drone Pilot
I just kept taking 10-question tests repeatedly until I felt comfortable with most of the questions. On Monday, I scheduled my test for Wednesday morning. I'm happy to say that I made a 90 with maybe 4-5 hours of effort. I'm a pretty fast tester (I don't sit and agonize over questions I know that I don't know, I just pick an answer and move on). It took 45 minutes to complete the 60 questions. I missed five. Many were dead simple, a few tried to be tricky and a few I just didn't know. Tony's video is EXTREMELY helpful, and I probably could have passed just by watching it several times, but it really helps to use the practice test site because the questions that require referencing the supplemental book that you can use on the test have links to specific pages like sectional maps and weather reports. There were several weather report questions, but once you know basically how to read one, they are fairly simple. If you can decode the reports and have pretty good knowledge of the sectional maps, common sense on the others will probably get you through. It's really not all that hard.
I just kept taking 10-question tests repeatedly until I felt comfortable with most of the questions. On Monday, I scheduled my test for Wednesday morning. I'm happy to say that I made a 90 with maybe 4-5 hours of effort. I'm a pretty fast tester (I don't sit and agonize over questions I know that I don't know, I just pick an answer and move on). It took 45 minutes to complete the 60 questions. I missed five. Many were dead simple, a few tried to be tricky and a few I just didn't know. Tony's video is EXTREMELY helpful, and I probably could have passed just by watching it several times, but it really helps to use the practice test site because the questions that require referencing the supplemental book that you can use on the test have links to specific pages like sectional maps and weather reports. There were several weather report questions, but once you know basically how to read one, they are fairly simple. If you can decode the reports and have pretty good knowledge of the sectional maps, common sense on the others will probably get you through. It's really not all that hard.
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