The Tests
Every FAA airman knowledge test in its real shape — the question count, the clock, and the 70% line.
All of them are in one subscription, so you do not have to know which one you are taking before you subscribe.
Question counts and times are from the FAA’s published testing matrix. Requirements change; confirm the current ones with your instructor or the FAA.
Before the list
Knowing them changes how you study, and two of them are the reason this product exists.
There is no curve and no per-section minimum — one number, and it is the same number whether you are taking the sport pilot test or the airline transport test. What differs is how much ground the questions cover and how little time you have.
You do not get a list of questions. You get the standards codes for the knowledge areas you got wrong — and your examiner is required to cover those areas on your practical test. The written follows you into the oral, by design.
An authorized instructor has to endorse you before you can take a pilot or instructor knowledge test. That endorsement is a judgment about your preparation made by a person who knows you; it is not something a study product can sell. The Part 107 test needs none.
A passing result is generally good for 24 calendar months, which is when your practical test has to happen; the airline transport multiengine test carries a longer window. Take the written too early and you can watch it lapse before a checkride you could not schedule.
Instrument indications, sectional excerpts, approach plates, performance graphs and loading problems. Most of the difficulty on most of these tests is in reading a figure correctly under time pressure, which is why ours are generated fresh every session.
You pay the testing provider directly for the appointment — currently in the region of $175, set by them and not by us. Confirm the figure when you schedule. Everything on this page is preparation; none of it is the test.
Private, instrument, commercial
The path most people are on, and the one where the incumbents charge you again at every rung.
Regulations and airspace, aerodynamics, systems and instruments, performance and weight and balance, weather, navigation, airport operations, and aeronautical decision-making. The 2025 testing matrix cut this test from two and a half hours to two, which makes it materially harder per minute than the version most study material was written against.
Clearances, departures, enroute, arrivals, approaches, holding, alternates and lost communications, plus the instrument systems and the weather that make all of it necessary. Also two hours since the 2025 matrix, for sixty questions built largely on charts and plates.
Note the date: from October 27, 2026 this test carries image questions drawn from current charts rather than from the fixed test supplement. What that changes, and what it does not →
A hundred questions covering the private and instrument material at a professional depth, plus commercial privileges and limitations, complex and high-performance systems, and the operating rules that apply the moment you are being paid. Because it is mostly the same subjects at a deeper cut, it is the clearest case for an engine that already knows what you proved on the earlier tests.
The professional ticket
The longest test on the ladder, and the one with a prerequisite we cannot sell you.
A hundred and twenty-five questions in three and a half hours for the multiengine test: transport-category performance, high-altitude and turbine operations, airline operating rules, dispatch and release, minimum equipment lists, swept-wing aerodynamics and crew resource management. The single-engine version is ninety questions in two and a half hours.
The prerequisite, stated plainly: the multiengine test requires an ATP certification training program certificate first. That is a provider-delivered course with classroom and simulator hours, and we do not provide it, cannot provide it, and are not a substitute for it. What we prepare is the knowledge test that follows.
Teaching certificates
Four separate tests, commonly bought as four separate courses.
Here they share one subscription and one knowledge model, which is the point.
100 questions · 2 h 30 m
The private and commercial knowledge again, but from the other side of the table: you are now the person who has to explain it, spot the error, and decide whether a student is ready. Endorsements and logbook entries are part of the subject matter.
50 questions · 2 h 30 m
Fifty questions, and generous time for them. Instrument procedures taught rather than flown — approach briefings, common student errors, and the judgment calls that separate a legal approach from a wise one.
50 questions · 1 h 30 m
Learning theory, teaching methods, assessment, and the instructor’s responsibilities. The one test on the ladder with no airplane in it at all, and the one candidates most often underestimate because of that.
100 · 80 · 50 questions
Advanced is a hundred questions, basic eighty, instrument fifty, with two and a half hours for each. Together with the fundamentals of instructing test they are the shortest route to teaching ground legally, and they share almost all of their material with the tests you have already taken.
Unmanned aircraft
The highest-volume airman knowledge test the FAA gives, and the only one on this page you can walk in and take.
Sixty questions in two hours on the Part 107 operating rules and waivers, Remote ID, airspace, weather, loading and performance, emergency procedures and crew coordination. It is a real airman knowledge test with a real 70% line, taken at a real testing center — and it is the one test here that requires no instructor endorsement, which is why so many people take it as their first contact with aviation.
The same October 2026 change applies here. From October 27, 2026 this test also draws image questions from current charts instead of the fixed supplement — and a remote pilot candidate is typically the person with the least chart-reading practice of anyone taking an FAA test. That is the group a generated-figure product helps most.
Keeping it current is free, and we will say so. The recurrent requirement is met by a free online FAA course, not by another paid test. Anyone selling you a recurrent package is selling you something you can get for nothing. The initial test is the only moment worth preparing for, and one month here covers it.
The rest of the matrix
Between them these tests are tens of thousands of candidates a year, served by material that is thin because the market is small.
They cost us nothing extra to cover, because they are views of the same knowledge.
80 questions · 3 h 30 m
Airline operations from the ground: dispatch and release, flight planning and fuel at dispatch depth, performance, meteorology, and the Part 121 rules. A long test with a generous clock, and a career that most pilot-focused prep ignores completely.
60 · 60 · 100 · 50 questions
Rotorcraft aerodynamics is genuinely different material — dissymmetry of lift, retreating-blade stall, settling with power, autorotation — sitting on top of the same regulations, weather and navigation as everything else. Two and a half hours for the commercial and instructor tests, two for the others.
40 · 50 · 60 questions
The cheaper ways into flying, and the ones with the thinnest study material on the market. Forty questions for sport in two hours, fifty for recreational, sixty for glider in two and a half. Same engine, same figures, same oral practice for the checkride that follows.
50 · 125 questions
For military pilots converting to a civil certificate. You already know how to fly; what you need is the civil regulatory and procedural delta, which is exactly what this test measures and exactly what a course written for a student pilot buries under three hundred pages you do not need.
One subscription, all of it. there is no per-test purchase and no bundle to choose. Whichever of these you are taking, and whichever you decide to take next, it is the same $49/mo — which is the whole argument, because a career track normally means buying four or five of these separately.
After the test
This is the part of the system almost nobody uses, and it is public, deterministic and free.
$49/mo month to month, or $39/mo on annual billing. Launching Monday, February 8, 2027.
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