FAA Part 107 Chart-Reading Question Walkthrough

if you found this video you're probably getting ready to take your part 107 test doing some last minute cramming i hope i can add some value to that what i want to do here is just take you through a walk through of some sample questions you might see on your part 107 test these tests can be tricky you may not know exactly in which order to do things as you're answering these questions so i just want to give you some examples here i've taken close to a dozen faa tests not just the remote pilot tests but also private pilot commercial pilot instrument flight instructor certified flight instructor ground instructor all these other tests so i've seen a few faa tests before and i want to use that experience to take you through how to answer these questions to make sure that you pass your test on the first time if you ever want to see other example questions for your part 107 test you can check out my part 107 practice test where you'll find close to 300 questions questions that i've written myself and you won't find in any other study materials to make sure that you're ready to go for that test and you'll find the link for that in the description for this video so let's get right into taking a look at some of these example part 107 questions so for this first question it'll ask you to refer to figure 20 area one the fentress airport with the identifier nfe is in what type of airspace so you'll have your test booklet with you you're going to open it up and go to figure 20 and then find area one and that's going to help restrict your search on that chart so we're looking for fentress nfe we search around this area area one and we find fentress and fe to the south of norfolk when we find the runway associated with fentress we see that it is a magenta runway meaning that it's not towered and it is surrounded by a dashed magenta line as we move out from that runway the first airspace symbol or line that we get to is that dashed magenta line now hopefully you're able to immediately identify that as class e airspace that goes down to the surface but if you don't or you just want to verify to make sure that what you think is the correct answer is indeed correct you have that aeronautical chart legend in the beginning of the test booklet i think it's one of the first pages you go to that chart legend in the airspace information section and you see the dashed magenta line indicates class e surface airspace don't forget about this legend it will help you with a lot of the questions you can see how much valuable information is on this one page there's a lot of really good stuff on here it'll not only help you answer questions that you just don't know but it will also help you verify and help you be more comfortable about the questions that you're answering so going back to our answers it is not class c because it is outside of that class c airspace ring and it is not class g because that dashed magenta line means that the controlled class e airspace starts at the surface so class e is the correct answer okay this next question has us referring to figure 21 area 1 after receiving authorization from atc to operate a small unmanned aircraft near minot international airport mot while the control tower is operational which radio communication frequency could be used to monitor manned aircraft and atc communications remember that you won't be talking directly to air traffic control or other aircraft while you're flying your drone near an airport however listening to those frequencies can sometimes give you valuable situational awareness about aircraft coming and going so we go to area one at the top of the chart and we find minot verifying m-o-t and in that information block we see under that first line ct118.2 with the little star and circle c next to it ct stands for control tower that is the control tower frequency 118.2 the star means that the control tower is only operational part time and the little circle c next to it means that when the control tower is closed 118.2 becomes the common traffic advisory frequency so no matter what whether or not the control tower is open 118.2 is the frequency that you're going to want to listen to for situational awareness on other aircraft we see 122.95 towards the end of that information block which is the unicom frequency that's for ordering fuel or finding rental cars and then asos 118.725 remember that is the pre-recorded weather briefing so the correct answer is c 118.2 the next question has us staying on figure 21 and asks us which airport is located at 47 degrees 40 minutes north and 101 degrees 26 minutes west so let's start with the latitude the lines parallel to the equator the ones that are flat or horizontal on the chart and it asks us which airport is at 47 degrees 40 minutes north so we're going to look for 47 degrees but if you see on this chart there is no line of latitude labeled 47 degrees all we see is 48 degrees up here at the top but remember each one of those quadrants is 30 minutes by 30 minutes so if we go south or down from 48 degrees towards the equator those numbers get smaller so that next line to the south is 47 degrees 30 minutes and we need to find 47 degrees 40 minutes each one of those small little tick marks represents one minute of latitude so we start at 47 degrees 30 minutes and go back to the north 10 minutes or 10 tick marks and this is 47 degrees 40 minutes once we find the latitude i just like to leave a piece of paper parallel to that line so that i can remember where that is and now we work on the longitude 101 degrees 26 minutes west we see the vertical line right here is labeled 101 degrees that means that if we keep moving west or to the left that next quadrant that next vertical line must be 101 degrees 30 minutes so we just move back to the east four minutes or four tick marks to get to 101 degrees 26 minutes west as we're subtracting that four four minutes from 30 to get 26. and as we move along that sheet of paper we get to the garrison airport at that intersection okay this next question gets a lot of people we're going to go to figure 26 area 2 while monitoring the cooperstown ctaf you hear an aircraft announce that they are midfield left downwind to runway 1-3 where would the aircraft be relative to the runway well guess what you don't even need a chart to answer this question the chart can help you visualize what runway 1-3 looks like but i would always just recommend drawing this out there's less chance of you making an error you're going to have a piece of scratch paper and a pencil with you so there's no reason not to draw things out during these long two hours that you have so first draw out your four cardinal directions on the compass label that north 360 and then every 90 degrees clockwise we're going to have 90 degrees to the east south is 180 degrees and west 270 degrees the first piece of information for this question is that the aircraft is landing on runway one three you should know from your studies that runway designations are based on the magnetic direction that the runway faces with that last zero cut off so runway one three faces the direction one three zero one three zero is pretty much dead between zero nine zero and one eight 0. so right where 1 3 0 would be draw a little mark there and then draw a runway from that point intersecting the center of the compass this is your runway and then draw an arrow where the aircraft would be facing if it's on final approach to that runway which is one three zero the aircraft will be facing that one three zero mark that you drew so we draw the arrow facing in that direction as that aircraft is landing on that runway the other information that we have is that the aircraft is making left-hand turns because it said that it's on the left downwind so now we just draw that rectangle with the aircraft making left hand turns and this is the path that the aircraft is flying over the ground in this traffic pattern downwind means that the aircraft is parallel to the runway facing the opposite direction of where they're going to land so just put an x on that leg the downwind leg on that portion of the traffic pattern and that is the side of the runway that they are on when they announce that they are left downwind for runway one three now our choices are east south and west that aircraft is certainly not on the south side it's also not to the west side the aircraft could be considered on the north side or the east side but the east side is the only other option in the test answers here and so that is our correct answer okay this next question is another latitude and longitude question we're using figure 26 area 4. you've been hired to inspect the tower under construction at 46.9 degrees north and 98.6 degrees west near jamestown what must you receive prior to flying your unmanned aircraft in this area so we go to figure 26 area 4 and we're looking for a tower that is under construction in the area of 46.9 degrees north and 98.6 degrees west so here's 47 degrees north so we move south a 10th of a degree which is six minutes or six tick marks and here's 98 degrees and 98.5 degrees west which is 98 degrees 30 minutes so we keep moving further west a tenth of a degree or six tick marks we find a couple of towers in this area but remember to read the question you'll have hints in the question the question asks about the tower that is under construction only one of these towers has a uc next to it which means under construction and remember you can find that information in the sectional legend in the beginning of your test supplement booklet so we have that 1727 foot tower you see and that as we see lies within a dashed magenta line that dashed magenta line again going back to our sectional chart legend means that it is class e airspace that starts at the surface and it is controlled airspace and in class e surface airspace the regulations say that you need atc authorization to fly there so the correct answer is atc authorization it's not in any kind of military airspace so that's an incorrect answer and it's not in any national park so that's also wrong process of elimination it must be that atc authorization is required refer to figure 25 area 3 the floor of class b airspace at dallas executive rbd is what so we go to figure 25 and search for area 3 looking for rbd and here is dallas executive rbd we see the runway for that airport right next to that area 3 icon and that airport is in class d class delta airspace but that's not what the question asks the question wants to know what is the floor of the class b bravo airspace above it remember that class b airspace altitudes are given in msl altitudes and they look like fractions with the top number being the top of the airspace and the bottom number being the bottom or the floor of the airspace so in that class b sector right here where dallas executive is we see one one zero over three zero which means that the floor the bottom of that class b airspace is three thousand feet msl refer to figure 78 you have been hired to use your small uas to inspect the railroad tracks from blenco southeast of sioux city to onowa will atc authorization be required the first step is to find blenco and ottawa we see sioux city in the center of this figure and the question tells us that blenco is to the southeast so we're going to move to the southeast from sioux city and we see blenco right here we're going to move along those railroad tracks because that's what the question is asking move along the railroad tracks until you find onawa which we seize to the north and the question wants to know if atc authorization is required for that stretch so now that we know which area we're operating in we need to know which airspace we're going to be operating in we see a few thick shaded magenta lines in this area but the railroad tracks are outside of all of those areas these thick shaded magenta lines mean that class e airspace inside of those lines starts at 700 feet outside of that class e airspace doesn't start until 1200 feet above the ground so that puts us in class g airspace which is uncontrolled which means that atc authorization is not required so the correct answer is b a is incorrect because there is no class d delta airspace near blenco and ottawa and class c is incorrect because there is no control tower at onwa it is a magenta airport again process of elimination to get rid of the obviously incorrect answers and verify the correct answer that we came up with in the beginning our last example here has a stain on figure 78 you have been contracted to inspect towers located approximately four nautical miles southwest of the sioux gateway s-u-x airport operating an unmanned aircraft what is the maximum altitude above ground level that you are authorized to operate over the top of those towers so we're going to find the sioux gateway s-u-x airport first and we see it right here almost in the middle of the figure we're going to move southwest from there four miles you have the scale at the bottom of the chart that you can use to measure or use one minute of latitude which is equal to one nautical mile so you can measure four minutes of latitude or four tick marks the ones that are on the vertical lines parallel to the equator right next to this airport and use that distance to estimate where four miles southwest is it's got to be these towers that are all 402 feet tall because the 206 foot tall towers are directly west and the 400 foot towers are directly south so we're going in between those we're looking at the towers that are 402 feet tall 402 feet agl above ground level those are the numbers in parentheses that's how high the tower is the top of the tower above ground level so what's the maximum agl altitude that you are allowed to operate over those towers if you remember from our regulations we have to stay within 400 feet above the ground or anything attached to the ground so with those towers being 402 feet tall we can fly another 400 feet above those as long as we are directly above them which means that we are authorized to fly 802 feet agl directly above those towers a is incorrect because that's our maximum altitude over everything we can go higher than that if we're over a tall structure and b is incorrect because that's the top of the tower we can still go higher than that c 802 feet is our correct answer so i hope this helped prepare you better for your part 107 test and exactly what to look for what to do when you are answering some of these questions again if you do want to see more sample questions questions that you won't find anywhere else you can check out my part 107 practice test linked in the description if not good luck i know you'll kill it and happy flying [Music]

Channel: John Peltier

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Keywords: remote pilot test, part 107 test, faa chart reading

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Length: 18min 35sec (1115 seconds)

Published: Tue Jan 18 2022