so ive been flying recreationally for about two years now and finally decided to just go ahead and get my 107. signed up for the test at a local testing center for about 5 weeks from now. ive been going through the FAA study guide and honestly some of it makes sense but the airspace stuff is kind of breaking my brain a bit. like i get the basic class B C D stuff but when you start getting into the TFRs and reading the sectional charts i kind of zone out. does anyone have a good method for that or resources that actually clicked for you? i bought a cheapish prep course online but its kind of dry and just reads me the regulations back at me which doesnt really help. also how hard is the actual test compared to the practice ones you find online

the sectional chart stuff was the thing that got me too. what finally clicked for me was just pulling up skyvector and spending like an hour zooming around different airports looking at the actual charts instead of just reading about them. once you can look at a real chart and identify stuff it becomes way less abstract. the test questions about airspace arent that bad honestly, theyre usually pretty obvious once you know what youre looking for. i used Sporty's study app and thought it was decent, the practice questions felt pretty close to the real exam. real test was harder than most free practice tests i found online but not crazy hard, i think i got like an 87.

yeah the TFRs are annoying to memorize. i just took mine like 6 weeks ago. honestly i was way more stressed going in than i needed to be. the weather and loading questions tripped me up more than the airspace stuff which surprised me. if youre not spending time on density altitude calculations i would def do that. theres a few questions about that kind of thing and if you havent done the math before its easy to lose points there