---
kind: "section"
citation: "14 C.F.R. § 107.73"
title: "14"
number: "107.73"
heading: "Knowledge and training."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/14/107.73"
---

# §107.73. Knowledge and training.


An initial aeronautical knowledge test and recurrent training covers the following areas of knowledge:

- (a) Applicable regulations relating to small unmanned aircraft system rating privileges, limitations, and flight operation;
- (b) Airspace classification, operating requirements, and flight restrictions affecting small unmanned aircraft operation;
- (c) Aviation weather sources and effects of weather on small unmanned aircraft performance;
- (d) Small unmanned aircraft loading;
- (e) Emergency procedures;
- (f) Crew resource management;
- (g) Radio communication procedures;
- (h) Determining the performance of the small unmanned aircraft;
- (i) Physiological effects of drugs and alcohol;
- (j) Aeronautical decision-making and judgment;
- (k) Airport operations;
- (l) Maintenance and preflight inspection procedures; and
- (m) **Operation at night.**

## Notes

### Amendments

[Amdt. 107-8, 86 FR 4383, Jan. 15, 2021]

### Authority

Authority: 49 U.S.C. 106(f), 40101 note, 40103(b), 44701(a)(5), 46105(c), 46110, 44807.

### Source

Source: Docket FAA-2015-0150, Amdt. 107-1, 81 FR 42209, June 28, 2016, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[Amdt. 107-8, 86 FR 4383, Jan. 15, 2021]