so anyway i finally got it after putting it off for like 8 months. kept telling myself id study more before booking the appointment and then just never did. eventually just booked it to force myself. scored a 82 which im fine with. the test center was kind of a weird experience, very sterile, they treat you like youre taking the bar exam or something. they make you empty your pockets and everything. anyway the actual questions ? some of them were genuinely weird and felt like trick questions about airport operations stuff, like taxiway lighting colors and reading METARs. i probably spent too much time on the drone-specific stuff and not enough on general aviation knowledge which is like half the test if not more. if youre studying, dont sleep on that general aviation section. the sectional chart questions were actually more straightforward than i expected. took me about 45 mins to finish and had time to review everything. overall not bad, just dont procrastinate like i did

congrats man. the procrastination thing is real, i booked mine without feeling ready and ended up studying way harder those last two weeks than i had in the whole month before. the METAR reading stuff caught me off guard too, i kept confusing some of the wind shear and ceiling notations. ended up watching a few actual pilot study videos on youtube for that stuff since the drone-specific courses kind of gloss over it

yeah the test center experience is weird isnt it. felt like i was being watched the whole time which i guess i was. i got a few questions that i swear werent in any of my practice material, something about runway incursion procedures or something, had to just make my best guess. but 82 is solid, i got a 79 on mine and was a little annoyed but whatever it doesnt matter once you pass. good call on mentioning the general avaition stuff, thats the part most drone people underprepare for i think because they assume the test is mostly about drones