Transport Canada Drone Pilot Exam: Small Basic (Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems - Basic Operations)
Flight operations: practice questions
Our Canada drone Basic exam bank has 17 questions on this topic. Here are 4 of them with answers; the full mock exam draws from every topic, like the real one.
Question 1
Adding a heavy payload far from the centre of gravity can:
- Make the RPA unstable or hard to control
- Increase flight time
- Improve hover stability by lowering the drone's centre of gravity
- Have no effect
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A. Make the RPA unstable or hard to control — TP 15263 covers CG and external loads affecting performance and stability.
Question 2
An alternate recovery area should be:
- Clear of people and obstacles and easy to reach
- Close to a busy road
- On a rooftop only
- Beside the battery charging area, so that batteries can be swapped quickly
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A. Clear of people and obstacles and easy to reach — TP 15263 asks pilots to identify desirable characteristics of alternate recovery areas.
Question 3
When a manned aircraft approaches at low level, the drone pilot should:
- Climb to get a better view
- Give way by descending or moving clear and landing if needed
- Hover in place
- Fly toward it to warn its pilot and make the drone easier for them to see
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B. Give way by descending or moving clear and landing if needed — An RPA must give way at all times (901.17).
Question 4
Recommended post-flight actions include:
- Leaving batteries in the drone overnight
- Downloading data, checking for damage and recording information in the logs
- Skipping the log if nothing happened
- Flying again immediately with the same battery to check that it still holds its charge
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B. Downloading data, checking for damage and recording information in the logs — TP 15263 lists post-flight actions such as downloading data, inspecting, removing batteries and logging.