Best Apps to Help You Pass the Part 107

Studying for the Part 107 from a PDF is painful. Nobody wants to sit at a desk reading FAA documents for three weeks. The good news is there are some genuinely useful apps that make this a lot more manageable, and most of the studying can happen from your couch or on a lunch break. Here is what is actually worth downloading.

For Practice Questions: FAA 107 Prep

This is what we built and we are obviously going to mention it first. FAA 107 Prep is a practice test app built specifically for the Part 107 knowledge exam. The questions cover every topic on the test, every answer has a real explanation, and it tracks which areas you keep missing so your study time goes toward the stuff that actually needs work instead of things you already know.

The weak-area tracking is the part that actually saves people. Most people who fail the Part 107 do not fail because the whole test is hard. They fail because one or two categories wrecked them. Drilling those specific areas in the days before your exam is how you fix that.

For Checking Airspace: B4UFLY

B4UFLY is the FAA's own free app for checking whether a location is safe and legal to fly. You open it, it shows you where you are, and it tells you if there are any airspace restrictions, TFRs, or other issues nearby. It is not the most polished app in the world but it is straight from the FAA so the data is accurate.

It is also genuinely useful for studying airspace. Pulling it up in different parts of your city and looking at the airspace classes around local airports helps the sectional chart stuff click in a way that reading about it does not.

For Reading Sectional Charts: SkyVector

SkyVector is a free web-based tool that shows you live sectional charts for anywhere in the US. It is not a phone app but the website works fine on mobile. The reason it is worth knowing is that the Part 107 exam will show you pieces of sectional charts and ask questions about them. Getting comfortable actually navigating a real chart before the test is a lot better than only seeing the cropped exam versions.

Spend twenty minutes zooming around SkyVector near your local airport and you will learn more about reading airspace than an hour of notes.

For Live METARs and TAFs: Aviation Weather Center

The Aviation Weather Center from NOAA is the best place to practice reading real METARs and TAFs. Once you learn the format, pulling up actual current weather reports and decoding them is the fastest way to get comfortable before the exam. It is free, it is updated constantly, and it is the same source real pilots use.

If you can sit down with a real METAR and decode every field without looking anything up, you are ready for the weather questions on the test.

What You Do Not Need

You do not need an expensive video course. You do not need a bunch of different apps. The people who overthink their study setup and spend a week picking tools end up with less time to actually study. Pick something and use it consistently. Two weeks of focused practice beats a month of scattered preparation every time.