How many loading and performance questions are on the Part 107 test?

The FAA publishes a band rather than a fixed count: Appendix 1 of the Airman Certification Standards gives Loading and Performance 7–11% of the test. On a 60-question test that is roughly 4 to 7 questions; the full-length mock on this site deals 5.

Not on this page. These sets are for learning the area — each answer comes with an explanation, the ACS code and the document the fact came from. The full-length mock runs the real clock: 60 questions in 120 minutes.

Are these real questions from the FAA test?

No. The FAA’s item bank is confidential and nobody outside the agency has it. Every question here is original, written to the published format — three options, one correct response — and every one carries the ACS element it tests and the document its facts came from.

Area of operation IV

Loading and performance practice questions

Weight, centre of gravity, load factor and what the air will actually lift.

7–11% of the test 23 questions here Untimed — explanation and ACS code after each answer

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What this area asks

The smallest area on the test and the one candidates most often leave until last, which is a mistake only because it is also the shortest to learn. Weight against lift, where the centre of gravity sits relative to the centre of pressure, what a load factor is and why it climbs so fast past a 45-degree bank, and what an overloaded aircraft does differently — a short list of consequences that appears again and again.

Effects of weightCentre of gravity and balanceStability and controllabilityLoad factorManufacturer performance data

The tasks the FAA lists under IV

This is the specification the real test is written to. Every question above carries the code of the element it tests, and a real Airman Knowledge Test Report gives you those codes back for the ones you get wrong.

UA.IV.A Loading and Performance

To determine that the applicant is knowledgeable in the loading and performance of an sUAS.

4 knowledge elements · references AC 107-2, FAA-H-8083-25, FAA-G-8082-22

Every ACS code, with the FAA’s own wording

Now do it at the FAA’s weighting.

60 questions in 120 minutes, dealt in the published proportions, scored at 70% — and reported back as ACS codes.

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Frequently asked

How many loading and performance questions are on the Part 107 test?: The FAA publishes a band rather than a fixed count: Appendix 1 of the Airman Certification Standards gives Loading and Performance 7–11% of the test. On a 60-question test that is roughly 4 to 7 questions; the full-length mock on this site deals 5.
Is this set timed?: Not on this page. These sets are for learning the area — each answer comes with an explanation, the ACS code and the document the fact came from. The full-length mock runs the real clock: 60 questions in 120 minutes.
Are these real questions from the FAA test?: No. The FAA’s item bank is confidential and nobody outside the agency has it. Every question here is original, written to the published format — three options, one correct response — and every one carries the ACS element it tests and the document its facts came from.

Sources

Every figure on this page comes from one of the documents below, with the date it was read and what the document says about its own currency. Regulations change by amendment; where a source has moved on since the date shown, the source is right and this page is out of date.

FAA-G-8082-22 — Remote Pilot – Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Study Guide Read August 27, 2026· August 2016 — predates Amendment 107-8 ⚠️ USE FOR SUBJECT MATTER, NEVER FOR A RULE. Airspace classes, METAR and TAF decoding, density altitude, load factor, physiology, radio procedure and airport data are unchanged and are sourced here. Its regulations chapter, its night rules and its silence on operations over people are all out of date, and a question sourced here on any of those is a bug.
14 CFR part 107 — Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (eCFR) Read August 27, 2026· eCFR reports title 14 up to date as of 2026-08-25 The regulation itself, and the only acceptable source on this site for an operating limit, a category, an eligibility rule or a recency rule. Amendment 107-8 (86 FR 4381, 15 January 2021) is the one that rewrote night operations and added operations over human beings.

Part 107 Drills is independent practice material. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or authorized by the Federal Aviation Administration, PSI Services LLC, or any knowledge testing centre. Every question here is original and none is taken from any actual FAA knowledge test. Regulatory text and FAA publications are works of the United States Government and are in the public domain; where this site states a rule, it cites the section it came from and the date that section was read.