FAQ
Questions, Answered Straight.
Including the ones where the answer is “no, and here is who you actually need for that”.
Requirements change. Confirm anything regulatory with your instructor or the FAA rather than with a marketing page — including this one.
Before the test
Endorsements and Eligibility
Do you provide the instructor endorsement?
No. An authorized instructor has to endorse you before you can take a pilot or instructor knowledge test, and that endorsement is a judgment about your preparation made by somebody who has worked with you. It is not something a study product can issue, and a product offering to would be selling something it has no standing to sell. What we can do is get you ready enough that the conversation is a short one.
Which test needs no endorsement?
The Part 107 remote pilot test. No instructor sign-off, no aeronautical experience requirement — you schedule it and take it. That is a large part of why it is the highest-volume airman knowledge test the FAA gives, and why so many people meet aviation through it.
Are you a Part 141 school? Are you FAA-approved?
No, and no. Part 141 and Part 147 are certificated schools operating under approved training course outlines, and “FAA-approved” is a term of art that describes their curriculum. We hold neither, we claim neither, and anyone using that phrase about a study product is misusing it. We are study material that runs alongside whatever training you are doing.
Do you provide flight training or checkrides?
No. Flight training comes from an instructor and a school; a practical test comes from a designated examiner or an FAA inspector. Nothing here counts toward either.
What about the ATP certification training program?
We do not provide it and cannot. It is a provider-delivered course with classroom and simulator requirements that has to be completed before you can take the airline transport multiengine knowledge test. What we prepare is the knowledge test that follows it.
Am I eligible to take the test I am studying for?
That depends on age, experience and, for most tests, the endorsement — and it is between you, your instructor and the FAA. We do not handle registration, scheduling or eligibility, and nothing here substitutes for what the regulations and your instructor tell you.
Format, scoring and validity
The Tests
What score do I need?
70% on every FAA airman knowledge test. There is no curve and no per-section minimum. What differs between tests is the ground covered and the time you get — sixty questions in two hours for the private and instrument tests, a hundred in two and a half for the commercial, a hundred and twenty-five in three and a half for the airline transport multiengine test.
How long is a passing result good for?
Generally 24 calendar months, which is the window your practical test has to happen inside; the airline transport multiengine test carries a longer one. Rules do change — confirm the current requirement with your instructor or the FAA before you plan around it.
What is on the test report?
Your score and the standards codes for the knowledge areas you answered incorrectly. Those codes matter more than most candidates realize: your examiner is required to cover those areas on your practical test. It is why we predict the codes you would miss before you take the test, and why they go straight into your oral practice afterward.
What happens if I fail?
You retake it after meeting the retest requirements, which typically means additional instruction and a new endorsement — check the current rule. Your report tells you the areas to fix, and a subscription billed by the month is a much better fit for a retake than a course window you already burned.
What is changing in October 2026?
From October 27, 2026 the instrument rating and Part 107 tests carry image questions drawn from current sectional, approach and enroute charts rather than only from the fixed printed test supplement, and the FAA has indicated more tests will follow. The subjects are unchanged. What changes is that familiarity with a specific set of supplement figures stops being worth anything. More on that →
Do I need a Part 107 recurrent package?
No, and be careful who is selling you one. The recurrent requirement is met by a free online FAA course, not by a paid test or a paid product. The initial test is the only part worth preparing for, and one month here covers it.
What does the test itself cost?
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. It is not part of this subscription.
What you get
The Product
Does this replace ground school?
It replaces the self-study half of it. What it does not replace is your instructor — and the point of using it is that the ground instruction you pay for at $40 to $80 an hour gets spent on things only a person who has flown with you can teach, rather than on going over airspace classes again.
Is the oral practice really unlimited?
Yes. There is no session cap, no per-question charge, and no fixed pool to exhaust — question sets are composed rather than retrieved, so running the same area of operation four evenings running gives you four different conversations. How it works →
Do I have to speak out loud?
No. Answer by voice or by keyboard; both are graded identically against the same visible rubric. Speaking is closer to the real event and is the better practice when you are somewhere you can do it.
Which certificates have oral practice at launch?
Private, instrument, commercial and flight instructor. Each is built against its own standards document rather than being one generic script with the nouns changed.
Are these real FAA test questions?
No. Our items are written from the standards, the handbooks and the regulations, all of which are public-domain United States government works. We do not collect or reproduce remembered test questions. That is a better legal posture, and it is also the reason the October 2026 figure change does not affect us — a product assembled from a recalled question pool is downstream of whatever that pool happened to contain.
Can I use it on a phone?
Mostly, yes — regulation questions, flashcards, and the oral practice by voice all work fine on a phone, which is where a lot of study time actually happens. Chart and figure work is genuinely better on a laptop or tablet, and we are not going to pretend a sectional excerpt reads well on a small screen.
Is it accessible?
The whole platform is built to WCAG 2.1 AA: full keyboard navigation, screen-reader support, a high-contrast theme beyond dark mode, reduced-motion support, and text alternatives for figures and charts. The oral practice has a text-input alternative to the microphone by design, not as an afterthought. The full accessibility statement →
Does it track me?
No tracking cookies, no third-party analytics, no tracking pixels, and fonts served from our own servers rather than a third-party network. Your study data is yours.
Timing and billing
Getting Started
When should I start?
For a written test, six to eight weeks out is the usual shape — long enough to cover the ground, short enough that it is still fresh. For the oral, start while you are training rather than in the week before the checkride: it is a skill that improves with repetition, and cramming a conversation does not work as well as cramming facts.
I have not started flying yet. Is this useful?
Yes, and Pre-Solo Fundamentals is free precisely for that moment. Arriving at your first lessons already knowing the airspace and the airport operations means the expensive hours get spent on flying rather than on ground you could have done at your kitchen table.
I am a drone pilot with no aviation background.
That is a large share of the people taking an FAA test, and the Part 107 test is a real one with a real 70% line. Airspace and weather are the parts that catch people out, because they are genuinely new — and they are exactly what an adaptive engine and a fresh chart every session are good at.
When does it launch?
Monday, February 8, 2027. Join the waitlist and you will hear the day subscriptions open; nothing is charged before then.
Can I cancel?
Any time, in one click. Paid access runs to the end of the period you already paid for and nothing renews after that.
Does subscribing here include other AccelaStudy AI products?
No. Each product in the family is an independent subscription — no bundles, no stacking, no surprises. See the family →
One standing caveat, worth repeating: nothing on this site is regulatory guidance. Question counts, times and pass marks come from the FAA’s published testing matrix, and everything about eligibility, endorsements, currency and validity is between you, your instructor and the FAA. AccelaStudy AI is not affiliated with, approved by, or endorsed by the Federal Aviation Administration or any other aviation authority.
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