PIREP: Remote Pilot (small UAS) recurrent course

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This morning I completed the FAA online recurrent training course for remote small UAS pilot certificate.
https://www.faasafety.gov/gslac/ALC/CourseLanding.aspx?cID=515


PIREP:
Takes about an hour (web site says 2 hours)
read multiple units, take 3-5 question quiz after each chapter
then take course exam. This exam REQUIRES a 100% on the 29 questions.

Take your time, read carefully, and it's OK (they even suggest) to research a question prior to answering. If you do not achieve the 100% first time through, I believe you may correct the wrong answers and regrade.

No cost, a new certificate is emailed immediately.
Good for another 2 years.
 
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If you don't answer all 29 correctly, you get a notice on which question is incorrect and you must correct it. All your answers stay you just need to correct your mistakes.
 
Hi.
Is there a time window before expiration / got your certificate, you can take it and a grace period if it expires / go past the date you got your certificate, without having to start from the begining?
 
bluesideup said:
Hi.
Is there a time window before expiration / got your certificate, you can take it and a grace period if it expires / go past the date you got your certificate, without having to start from the begining?
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https://www.faa.gov/uas/getting_started/part_107/remote_pilot_cert/#remote


https://www.faa.gov/uas/media/AC_107-2_AFS-1_Signed.pdf

see 6.6.2.1 - the license expires after 24 calendar months. If you don't retake the recurrent training, you can't be UAS PIC until you do. This is the renewal process if you also have a Pt 61 certificate.

6.7.2 describes the renewal if you do NOT also have a Pt 61 license - if you only have the Pt 107. Same deal, if you let it expire by not completing your recurrent training at the end of the 24th calendar month, you can't be UAS PIC until you do.

There are probably other references, but this is the first one I found.
 
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Matthew said:
https://www.faa.gov/uas/getting_started/part_107/remote_pilot_cert/#remote


https://www.faa.gov/uas/media/AC_107-2_AFS-1_Signed.pdf

see 6.6.2.1 - the license expires after 24 calendar months. If you don't retake the recurrent training, you can't be UAS PIC until you do. This is the renewal process if you also have a Pt 61 certificate.

6.7.2 describes the renewal if you do NOT also have a Pt 61 license - if you only have the Pt 107. Same deal, if you let it expire by not completing your recurrent training at the end of the 24th calendar month, you can't be UAS PIC until you do.

There are probably other references, but this is the first one I found.
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Just another note, if you have a 61 certificate but don't have a flight review in the past 24 months you'll need to follow 6.7.2.
 
amster105 said:
Just another note, if you have a 61 certificate but don't have a flight review in the past 24 months you'll need to follow 6.7.2.
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I've read that AC a couple times now, and have become even more confused.

It reads to me that if you are Pt 61 AND have a current FR, then you can do an online recurrent training course. All other cases, you have to take the knowledge test.
 
Wow, we are all trained and ready for all those high paying UAV jobs. Make sure you also complete a SNAP application.
 
Clip4 said:
Wow, we are all trained and ready for all those high paying UAV jobs. Make sure you also complete a SNAP application.
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It's my only chance to wear a flight suit. I can't wear it in the 150, it looks goofy.
 
Do you get a new plastic card too, or is this just like having a CFI ink a BFR in your logbook?
 
More like the Flight Review. Which is to say, it in essence IS the Flight Review for Remote Pilots.
 
I completed the refresher course earlier this week. I did not get the impression a new certificate would be mailed. Simply log the completion certificate, keep it with my records and all is good. I checked my plastic, there is not an expiration date.
 
James331 said:
Do you get a new plastic card too, or is this just like having a CFI ink a BFR in your logbook?
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You get a 8.5x11 certificate and a card sized one. You are supposed to have the card sized one with your certificate while exercising the privileges of your certificate. So it is sort of like a flight review.
 
I'm glad they sent the email reminder. I renewed a couple of days ago. Part 61 + 107 + EE is exploding right now.
 
I’m thinking of getting the drone UAS certificate. If I do, since I already hold a PPL will this cert be a Private or Commercial?
 
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