From the free Part 107 regulations drill at office20.org
Part 107 test changes, tracked
The FAA has moved the date. The June 2026 Airman Testing Community Advisory said the UAG chart change begins on 27 October 2026. The August 2026 edition gives the date as 26 October 2026, with a footnote reading “Corrected date from the previous edition of this advisory.” Material still saying 27 October predates that correction.
Second thing being reported wrong: 26 October 2026 is not the date the testing supplement goes away. Several write-ups have said or implied it is. The FAA says the removal date has not been set, and that candidates keep access to the supplement until it is.
“The date for removing testing supplements from test centers has not yet been set. However, the public will receive ample notice before this change takes effect.”
“Until the removal, candidates will continue to have access to the testing supplement for their exam.”
Airman Testing Community Advisory, August 2026 — wording unchanged from the June edition
What does happen on 26 October is narrower: the test starts including chart images that are not in the testing supplement, drawn from current VFR charts. The FAA says the specific images cannot be previewed. Memorising the supplement’s chart excerpts stops being a reliable strategy. Everything else about how the test is administered stays where it was.
I wrote the full explanation of both 2026 changes for The Drone Girl: The Part 107 test changed twice. Here’s what you actually need to study now. It was published before the August advisory and originally carried the old 27 October date; it was updated to 26 October on 1 September 2026. This page is the shorter job: keeping track of what happens next. I check the primary documents weekly and log every check below, including the ones that find nothing.
Where things stand
Only the contested items. Last checked 1 September 2026.
| Chart-image start date | 26 October 2026. Corrected from 27 October in the August 2026 advisory |
| Supplement removal date | Not set. The FAA says so explicitly |
| Whether every figure-based question converts, or only charts | Unconfirmed. Inquiry pending |
| Current test blueprint | PSI’s Applicant Information Bulletin, not the ACS — since 29 September 2025 |
| Remote Pilot ACS revision | Still 10B. Its weighting table is obsolete but still posted on faa.gov |
What is already settled
The exam was reweighted on 29 September 2025. In its August 2025 Airman Testing Community Advisory the FAA declared the weighting table in the ACS obsolete and pointed applicants to PSI’s Applicant Information Bulletin instead. Regulations is now 48% of the test, not the 15–25% most study guides still quote.
| Content area | Old ACS table | Current blueprint |
|---|---|---|
| Regulations | 15–25% | 48% |
| Airspace classification and operating requirements | 15–25% | 20% |
| Operations | 35–45% | 25% |
| Weather | 11–16% | 5% |
| Loading and performance | 7–11% | 2% |
Regulations and Operations have swapped places. The percentages are on page 4 of the PSI bulletin; the obsolete table is in Appendix 1 of the Remote Pilot ACS, which the FAA still has posted. Same page 4: the exam is 60 scored questions plus 5 unscored validation questions. You cannot tell which is which, and the time allowance includes them, so treat all 65 as if they count.
What is still unanswered
At the end of July I wrote to the FAA’s testing standards office and to PSI asking two questions the advisory does not answer:
- Does the testing supplement stay available after 26 October?
- Does every figure-based question convert to the new format, or only some?
Neither has replied yet. The August 2026 advisory does not answer either question. When one does, I will write up exactly what they said and link the source.
The second question matters more than it looks. The advisory names VFR and IFR low altitude charts as the image sources, but the supplement also holds figures that are neither — a METAR block and a load factor graph both appear in the FAA’s own published sample questions. Nothing states what becomes of those. Until it does: plan for charts you have not seen, and do not throw out the supplement.
Get an email when there is news
No schedule, no marketing sequence. I write when a primary source actually says something new about this test — which so far has been a few times a year. If the FAA or PSI answers either question above, that is the sort of thing you would get.
Meanwhile, where to put your study time
The shift that works on either side of 26 October is to stop treating sectional excerpts as pictures to memorise and start treating chart reading as a procedure you can run on any chart: how to read a sectional chart, the lookup in order.
And with Regulations at 48%, these are worth reading in the regulation’s own words: 107.41 and the two airspace authorization traps · what 107.49 actually requires · do you have to read all of Part 107?
The rest of the Regulations area sits in rules that did not change on either date, and are worth knowing cold precisely because they are now a bigger share of the exam: 107.29 and whether night flying needs a waiver · what Remote ID actually broadcasts under 89.110 and 89.115 · one registration number, or one per aircraft · the three age thresholds · whether a monetised channel needs a certificate.
Check log
| 1 Sep 2026 | Change. An August 2026 Airman Testing Community Advisory now exists and moves the chart-image start date from 27 October to 26 October 2026, footnoted as a correction to the June edition. The supplement-removal wording is unchanged and the removal date is still unset. Also new in the August edition: Flight Instructor and ATP exams gain embedded images on the same date, and Dash 8 Q400 items leave the ATM test. ACS still 10B. No reply yet from the FAA or PSI. Dates on this site updated the same day. |
| 16 Aug 2026 | No change. June 2026 is still the most recent Airman Testing Community Advisory — no July or August edition exists. ACS still 10B, no 10C. No reply yet from the FAA or PSI. |
Back to the free 90-question regulations drill or the Part 107 study hub.
Nobody outside the FAA and PSI knows the live question pool, and you should distrust any precise breakdown of it — including mine. Everything above is either quoted from an FAA or PSI document or flagged as unconfirmed. Study aid only; not flight instruction and not legal advice.