Rules & Regulations
The minimum age required to obtain a Remote Pilot Certificate under Part 107.
What is 16 years old?
This class of airspace is found at big city airports like JFK.
What is Class B airspace?
The color of the line that indicates Class D airspace on a sectional chart.
What is a dashed blue line?
When liquid water changes into water vapor (or gas).
What is evaporation?
The process of making choices and judgments while flying a drone.
What is Aeronautical Decision-Making (ADM)?
The maximum altitude you can fly your drone.
What is 400 feet above ground level?
Airspace identified on a Sectional Chart with a solid magenta line.
What is Class C airspace?
The meaning of an area marked with a solid magenta line on a sectional chart.
What is Class C airspace?
When solid water (like ice or snow) turns into a cloud of water vapor, without becoming water first.
What is sublimation?
Effectively using all your resources–human, hardware, software, and information–to make sure you have a successful drone mission.
What is Crew Resource Management (CRM)?
The document that a remote pilot must always carry while operating a drone.
What is a Remote Pilot Certificate?
Class of airspace found around tiny airports that might not have a control tower operating 24/7.
What is Class D airspace?
The outer part of a Sectional Chart that tells us important information like the chart's legend, the airports it shows, controlled airspace, and elevation.
What is the border of the Sectional Chart?
Huge, puffy, towering clouds can reach up to 40,000 feet or higher
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
A checklist that helps you check for hazards before a flight. Stands for Pilot, Aircraft, Environment, and External Pressures.
What is the PAVE model?
The minimum visibility requirement for drone operations under Part 107.
What is 3 Statute Miles?
Class of airspace you might find yourself flying in most often as a drone pilot.
What is Class G airspace?
A number that shows the highest elevation within a specific quadrangle area.
What is a Maximum Elevation Figure (MEF)?
Areas where uneven heating of the air causes air to move up or down and create bumpy, turbulent flights.
What are convective currents?
A checklist that helps you take inventory of your physical and mental state. Stands for Illness, Medication, Stress, Alcohol, Fatigue, and Emotion/Eating.
What is the IMSAFE model?
The minimum distance from clouds that must be maintained horizontally by drone operators.
What is 2,000 feet?
This type of airspace extends from the surface to 2,500 feet above the airport elevation surrounding airports with an operational control tower.
What is Class D airspace?
Areas with specific rules for certain risky types of flight that have to be confined.
What is Special Use Airspace?
How pilots measure the density of air, or how thick or thin it is.
What is density altitude?
Rechargeable batteries are used to power drones and other devices, like phones, notebook computers, and battery-powered electric vehicles.
What are LiPo batteries?