Area of operation V
Operations practice questions
Radio, airports, emergencies, decision-making, physiology and maintenance.
What is a CTAF?
What this area asks
The biggest area by a wide margin — more than a third of the test — and the one that is really six subjects wearing one label. Radio procedure and the phonetic alphabet; how a non-towered airport works and how manned traffic announces itself; lithium batteries and lost link; the five hazardous attitudes and their antidotes; what dehydration and fatigue and night vision do to a person; and what a preflight inspection has to cover. Spend your time here in proportion to its weight.
The tasks the FAA lists under V
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.V.A Radio Communications Procedures
To determine that the applicant is knowledgeable in radio communication procedures.
8 knowledge elements · references AC 107-2, AIM, FAA-H-8083-25, FAA-G-8082-22
UA.V.B Airport Operations
To determine that the applicant is knowledgeable in airport operations.
10 knowledge elements · references AC 107-2, 150/5200-32, AIM, FAA-H-8083-25, FAA-G-8082-22
UA.V.C Emergency Procedures
To determine that the applicant is knowledgeable in sUAS emergency procedures.
11 knowledge elements · references AC 107-2, FAA-H-8083-25, FAA-G-8082-22, SAFOs 09013, 10017, 15010
UA.V.D Aeronautical Decision-Making
To determine that the applicant is knowledgeable in aeronautical decision-making.
7 knowledge elements · references AC 107-2, FAA-H-8083-2, FAA-H-8083-25, FAA-G-8082-22
UA.V.E Physiology
To determine that the applicant is knowledgeable in the physiological factors affecting remote pilot performance.
9 knowledge elements · references AC 107-2, FAA-H-8083-2, FAA-H-8083-25, FAA-G-8082-22
UA.V.F Maintenance and Inspection Procedures
To determine that the applicant is knowledgeable in sUAS maintenance and inspection procedures.
7 knowledge elements · references AC 107-2, FAA-H-8083-25, FAA-G-8082-22
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 operations 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 Operations 35–45% of the test. On a 60-question test that is roughly 21 to 27 questions; the full-length mock on this site deals 23.
- 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.
- FAA-S-ACS-10B — Remote Pilot – Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Airman Certification Standards Read August 27, 2026· Material in FAA-S-ACS-10B is effective April 6, 2021 The shape of the test and the ACS codes. Appendix 1 publishes the 60-question length, the two-hour limit, the 70% passing score and the share of the test each area of operation gets. Appendix 3 publishes that a passing test report is valid for 24 calendar months.
- FAA-H-8083-2A — Risk Management Handbook Read August 27, 2026· 2022 edition One of the ACS’s own listed references (FAA-H-8083-2). Used here for the five hazardous attitudes and their antidotes, which the Remote Pilot Study Guide names but prints only inside a figure — the antidote wording on this site is quoted from Figure 3-2 of this handbook rather than reconstructed.
- AC 107-2A — Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (small UAS) Read August 27, 2026· Dated 2/1/21 FAA guidance written against the amended rule. Used for the things the regulation implies without spelling out — what civil twilight means in practice, what a scalable preflight inspection is, how maintenance recordkeeping is expected to work.
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