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noah
May 2, 2006
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Anyone ever take this test. MY job is allowing me the opportunity to take the test as we will be utilizing a UAS for work engineering purposes. Being that it's FAA I'm wondering how difficult it might be. Just started looking into the requirements and testing, etc. Was wondering if any here have first hand experience.
 

Pesqueeb

bicycle in airplane hangar
Feb 2, 2007
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Riding the baggage carousel.
If it's anything like my A&P was, study, study, study. Paper test was easy-peasy. Is a practical test required for commercial drone use?

Perhaps @Jm_ can tell you more.
 
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Pesqueeb

bicycle in airplane hangar
Feb 2, 2007
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Riding the baggage carousel.
From what I've read its only a paper test issued by FAA. No flying required.
A brief perusal of FAA.gov commercial drone page references test prep but then just appears to link me to a more generic "drone pilot" page. See if you can find something like this. Spend a couple weekends reading and studying it and you'll be fine. Honestly, when I took my A&P, i bought the equivalent book, highlighted all the correct answers, and then memorized it. I don't recall my exact score, but I pretty much aced it, and I was drinking a lot at the time.