Hi, are you interested in becoming a remote pilot? If you are, that's awesome! Congratulations!
If you're the kind of person that enjoys learning by watching tutorials online and if you feel like
you do not need to sit in a classroom or in a live stream event, and I am here to tell you that you
can learn this all for free. Do not pay for any of the classes online because you do not need
to! There are so many free resources online. So I took the test back in April of this year and
I passed with a score of 86. I studied for about a week and tapped into all these different free
resources. What I wanted to do today is share with you the approach that I took. First what
I recommend that you do is go on FAA's website that talks about the requirements to becoming a
drone pilot. The website covers things such as requirements, eligibility
and other really important information. Study that information very carefully. Next, I recommend that
you watch Tony Northrup's video on the study guide for becoming a drone pilot. His video is very
thorough and covers all the different aspects that you're going to be tested on. I watched the video,
it's either an hour and a half or two hours long if I remember right. And the great thing is you
can always go back and re-watch the video. Then I tapped into other test takers feedback
and most of them were saying that the test was very much focused on understanding how to read
sectional charts, being able to read TAFs and METARs, understanding longitude and latitude
and being able to understand weather conditions. Those were the four areas that I felt like I
needed to dive in a lot deeper. For me, to be able to do that, I tapped into these resources here.
The information I am covering in this video I'm also going to put it in the description part. I'm
going to list all the information so that you have the links to the videos and sources that I tapped
into. Now that you have a very good understanding of the material that you're going to be tested on,
I went back to FAA's website and downloaded the official study guide. Now you might ask yourself,
why did you wait until this point to download the information and go through it?
Because had I done it initially before even watching Tony Northrup's video,
I would have not understood much about it at all. But now that I've had the crash course, I
dove in deeper into certain aspects that I knew I was going to get tested on. I utilized the
official study guide to essentially just add on my knowledge. It's as if I put a glaze over it.
I already knew after I studied the information from the FAA I went to take a practice test and
for that I referred to PSI's practice test which is also recommended by the FAA. What you want to
make sure is that you score well over 70. For the real test you're going to pass with a 70 or above.
But you want to be able to walk in the test really confident. So if you're just around 70 even 75
I would go back to the test results and see what areas you can improve on.
And improve on those areas. Now let's just assume you're taking the test. It's test day.
My recommendation to you is, and this is easier said than done, but don't panic. Take
deep breaths and know that you have quite some time to figure out each one of these questions. If
you really think about it, there's 60 questions. You have two hours to complete the entire test.
That gives you two minutes per question. Remember, when you get to sectional chart questions
a lot of the answers are going to be in the legend in the chart. You'll have that in front of you. So
go back to the legend and see if you can't find the information there. If you are confused about
a question, go back to that question. Reread it. You want to make sure that you really understand
what the question is asking you. I wish you the very best of success in taking the course.
If you choose to do so please let me know if this video was educational for you. I'd
love to hear from you. Also subscribe and ring the bell. I really appreciate it. Thank you!