How do you schedule a flight review?
Drone Advanced Exam (RPAS) overview
Drone Advanced Exam (RPAS): The flight review
Standard 921.02 exercises, prerequisites and ID, the planning exercise, lost-link and fly-away items, how errors are graded, failure and retakes, results and the flight reviewer rating.
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Study reference: TC drone rules: CARs Part IX and TC AIM RPA chapter (Oct 2026), Ch. 7 Flight review — CARs 901.64, 901.68, 901.175–901.181, Standard 921; TP 15395 Appendices A–B; AIM RPA 3.5
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How do you schedule a flight review?
- Book it through a Transport Canada regional office
- Request it from NAV CANADA through the NAV Drone app
- Ask any advanced pilot you know to sign you off on it
- Contact a drone flight school that has flight reviewers
Your flight review takes place in Class G far from people and airports. What else is required?
- An extra planning exercise for an advanced environment
- Nothing more, since the review can be done anywhere at all
- A written essay about the Standard 922 safety declarations
- A second flight review flown inside controlled airspace
In the fly-away exercise, which action is the candidate expected to take without delay?
- Walk back to the take-off point and wait for its return
- Delete the flight log to free up memory on the device
- Record the drone's last direction and altitude seen
- Switch the controller off and on to reset the radio link
Which document must you provide to the school for your flight review?
- The certificate of registration for the drone you will use
- A letter of reference from a previous drone employer
- Proof of liability insurance of at least one million dollars
- A medical certificate from a civil aviation medical examiner
How long a flight must the candidate plan for the flight review?
- At least 60 minutes, with three take-offs and three landings
- At least 2 hours, covering a route of 10 NM or more
- Exactly 5 minutes, hovering in one spot near the reviewer
- At least 15 minutes, with one take-off and one full-stop landing
Which exercise is part of the advanced flight review under Standard 921.02?
- Describing when and how to report an incident to TC and the TSB
- Assembling a drone from spare parts in under one hour
- Repairing a damaged propeller in the field without tools
- Filing an instrument flight plan with NAV CANADA by phone
A candidate fails one exercise of the flight review. What happens?
- The item is skipped if others went well
- The candidate gets a provisional pass
- The whole review must be redone
- Only that one item is redone later
What must you pass before booking a flight review for the advanced certificate?
- A ROC-A radio exam
- The Flight Reviewer exam
- The Level 1 Complex exam
- The online Advanced exam
Who is pilot-in-command during a flight review?
- A Transport Canada inspector
- The flight school owner
- The candidate
- The flight reviewer
How does TP 15395 classify an error that leads to an unsafe aircraft state or a CARs breach?
- A major error, which still counts as a pass
- A minor error, simply noted at the debrief
- A critical error, which fails the review
- A technical error, which the reviewer ignores
Can the flight reviewer act as your visual observer during the review?
- Yes, if you ask before the flight starts
- No, the reviewer is not a crew member
- Yes, but only for take-off and landing
- Yes, reviewers are trained as observers
Which is a requirement for the flight reviewer rating?
- Owning at least two registered medium-size drones
- Holding a commercial pilot licence for aeroplanes
- Being at least 16 years old with a basic certificate
- Holding an advanced certificate for at least 6 months
How must the candidate show navigation skill during the flight review?
- By paper chart only, with the drone's display switched off
- By visual reference and by control-station reference only
- By autopilot only, without ever touching the control sticks
- By following another pilot's drone along the planned route
Within how long after the review does the flight reviewer submit your results?
- Within 30 days
- Within 7 days
- Within 24 hours
- At the end of the month
The flight review: key rules to remember
Our summary of what the official handbook says on this topic, in our own words. Read it before or after the practice questions above, then check the original chapter. Read the official chapter ↗
Advanced flight review exercises
- Describe the site survey process.
- Demonstrate the ability to plan an operation.
- Describe emergency procedures, including lost link and fly-away, and who to contact.
- Describe when and how to inform Transport Canada and the TSB of an incident or accident.
- Perform pre-flight checks; perform a take-off or launch.
- Navigate by visual reference (if the control station allows) and by control-station reference only.
- Recognize distances; perform a landing.
Before the review
- Prerequisite: pass the Advanced exam first. The candidate gets a Drone Management Portal reference number and an exam reference number to give the reviewer.
- Bring valid, unexpired government-issued ID with name and date of birth (passport, driver's licence, PR card, etc.); reviewers do not copy ID documents.
- Bring the certificate of registration for the drone used; the drone must be registered and marked (small or medium only).
- Book directly with a drone flight school; every reviewer is affiliated with a self-declared training provider. Reviewers set their own fees.
- The review is in person; location agreed in advance; it can be in controlled or uncontrolled airspace but must comply with Part IX (except holding the advanced certificate).
- The candidate is the pilot-in-command and makes the final go/no-go decision; the reviewer may intervene only for safety and is not a visual observer.
Planning exercise
- Plan a flight of at least 15 minutes with at least one take-off and one full-stop landing.
- Assessed: site survey, crew briefing, current charts and publications, airspace and obstacles, take-off area and route, alternate landing site, weather and NOTAMs, altitude choice, go/no-go decision, weight and centre of gravity within limits, effect of unserviceable equipment.
- If the review flight is not in an advanced environment, an extra planning exercise for an advanced area is required.
Lost link and fly-away items
- Lost link: program return-to-home correctly, choose power and altitude for the situation, recognize the loss promptly, regain control if the link returns, contact the appropriate facility if needed.
- Fly-away: record your position, the direction and altitude the drone was last seen, estimate remaining flight time, and contact the appropriate facility without delay.
Assessment
- Failing any one item = failure; a complete redo is required. Also failure for no appropriate site survey, a pattern of poor visual scanning, unsafe flying, dangerous behaviour or lack of training.
- Error levels: minor (inconsequential), major (reduced safety margin or measurably detracts from the aim), critical (mismanaged, compromises safety, non-compliance with the CARs) = failure.
- Crew resource management is assessed in every task.
- The reviewer enters results in the Drone Management Portal within 24 hours; the candidate gets an email and then applies and pays for the certificate.
- Retake after 24 hours (CAR 901.68). Apply for the certificate within 12 months of the review (CAR 901.64(c)). Results may be invalidated if knowledge lapses more than 2 years.
- A dissatisfied candidate may file a written complaint with the TC regional office; dissatisfaction with the result alone is not enough.
Flight reviewer rating
- Age 18+, advanced or Level 1 Complex certificate held for at least 6 months, recency met, pass the Flight Reviewer exam (30 questions, 1½ hours, 80%), good aviation record.
- Must be affiliated with a TP 15263 or TP 15530 self-declared training provider (Canadian); L1C reviews need a TP 15530 provider.
- Expected maximum of 8 complete flight reviews a day.
Other topics
- Advanced certificate, privileges and recencyWhat counts as an advanced operation, who may fly one, the age 16 certificate with exam and flight review, supervision of uncertified pilots, 24-month recency, exam and retake rules, and how Level 1 Complex differs.
- Safety assurance declarations (Standard 922)Which advanced operations need a declaration, what 922.04 to 922.08 assure, safety assurance vs pre-validated declarations, what you can fly without a declaration, modifications and operating limits.
- Flying near and over peopleThe 30 m, 5 m and 500 ft distance bands, who counts as involved, medium-drone distances, parachute limits, site and crowd planning and the crew briefing.
- Operations in controlled airspaceThe three conditions for controlled airspace, NAV Drone and DND authorizations, the information ATC may ask for, flying above 400 ft with authorization, ATC instructions, transponder airspace and restricted airspace.
- Airports, heliports and aerodrome trafficEstablished procedures within 3 NM of airports and 1 NM of heliports, TC's generic procedure, aerodrome operators' role, military aerodromes, traffic circuits, MF and ATF areas and runway numbering.
- EVLOS, sheltered operations, medium drones and SFOCsExtended visual line-of-sight and visual observer rules, sheltered operations near structures, medium-drone limits, BVLOS basics and the operations that still need an SFOC—RPAS.
- Aviation weather reports and meteorologyDecoding METARs and TAFs (wind, visibility, weather, cloud, ceiling, temperature, altimeter), change groups, pressure and density altitude, stability, fronts, thunderstorms and wind shear.
- Radio communicationsThe ROC-A, aviation VHF frequencies including 121.5, 126.7 and 123.2 MHz, MF and ATF procedures, radio technique and phrasing, distress calls, transponder codes and crew radios.
- SFOC applications, payloads, records and occurrencesWhen and how to apply for an SFOC—RPAS, lead times and risk assessment, events, payloads and lasers, records, occurrence analysis, TSB investigations, tethered drones and site safety.
- Crew resource management and human factorsThe four CRM skill areas, threat and error management, visual observers and sterile communication, FPV and night-vision limits, disorientation and operating pressures.