Learn to fly legally in Canada
Everything we teach, in the order you need it. The Basic exam course is free and always will be — start there. The paid material begins where free material honestly runs out: the Advanced syllabus, the documents you file on a job, and the in-person review that finishes your certificate.
New to this? The complete Basic RPAS exam course is free — all eight Transport Canada subject areas, 20 practice questions, no signup.
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Transport Canada publishes everything the Basic exam draws from, so there is no honest reason to charge for it. We wrote the whole course out and put it on the site.
The Basic exam course
All eight TP 15263 subject areas at Basic depth — air law, airspace, meteorology, navigation, human factors, radiotelephony, flight operations and aircraft systems — written plainly and current to the regulations in force in 2026.
Practice quiz — 20 Q
Twenty questions at Basic depth across all eight knowledge areas, with every answer explained and a score by subject at the end. Runs in your browser. Nothing stored, no account, no email.
Rules cheat sheet
Every core limit for Basic and Advanced operations on one page — altitudes, distances from people and aerodromes, airspace and the fines for getting it wrong. Printable for the flight bag.
Also free: the full reference library — fourteen pages covering registration, recency, where you can fly, Ontario bylaws, insurance and costs — and a ten-question Advanced sampler if you want to see the harder syllabus before you spend anything.
Where free runs out.
The Advanced exam is a different animal: 50 questions in 60 minutes at 80% to pass, and it asks about airspace, meteorology and human factors at a depth no free Basic course covers. This is the material for that.
RPAS Operations Guide
The 48-page guide to the full Advanced exam syllabus — airspace, meteorology, human factors, emergencies — plus nine field checklists. Nineteen chapters, updated for the November 2025 amendments. The core study resource.
Practice Exam — 50 Q
Fifty original questions pitched at the Advanced exam and weighted the way it is, with every answer explained. Grouped by subject, with a scoring guide and a map from each subject back to the guide's chapters. Know where you stand before you book.
Basic Study Pack
The complete free Basic course as a printable PDF, plus a one-page cheat sheet of every number for the flight bag. The web version stays free; this is the offline edition for people who study better on paper.
The Advanced Exam Kit
The three things worth having for the Advanced exam and your first flight review, together: the 48-page Operations Guide, the 50-question Practice Exam, and the Site Survey & Authorization Kit you'll need on the day. Bought separately that's CA$97 — the kit is CA$79.
After you pass.
These are working documents, not study aids — the paperwork that keeps an operation legal and defensible, and the in-person review that finishes your certificate.
Site Survey & Authorization Kit
A fillable pre-operation record built directly on the eight site-survey factors of CARs 901.27 — airspace and NOTAM log, obstacle and hazard register, operational risk assessment, emergency plan and sign-off. One set per job. Also the best possible flight-review prep.
Field Checklists
Nine field-ready checklists — pre-flight, take-off, landing, post-flight, battery care, crew and IM SAFE, plus lost-link and fly-away emergencies with a fly-away radio script. Print, laminate, carry. Also included inside the Operations Guide.
Advanced Flight Review
The in-person practical assessment that completes your Advanced certificate, with a Transport Canada-recognized reviewer, on your own aircraft. Pre-flight briefing, flight assessment and a debrief that tells you the truth. Not a download — a booking.
Before you buy anything.
Where do I start if I have no certificate yet?
With the free Basic course. It covers all eight Transport Canada subject areas at Basic depth and costs nothing, and the 20-question practice quiz tells you whether you're ready to sit the real exam. Nothing on this page is worth buying until you've been through it.
What's the difference between the free quiz and the paid practice exam?
The free quiz is 20 questions at Basic depth and runs in your browser. The paid practice exam is 50 original questions pitched at the Advanced syllabus, weighted the way the real exam is, grouped by knowledge area with every answer explained and a scoring guide. Different exam, different level.
Do I need the guide if I've done the free course?
Only if you're going Advanced. The free course takes you through the Basic exam end to end. The Operations Guide covers the harder Advanced syllabus — airspace, meteorology, human factors and emergencies — at the depth that exam actually asks for.
Are these downloads or physical products?
Downloads. Everything except the flight review is a PDF, delivered immediately after checkout through Payhip. Nothing ships and nothing is posted.
How current is all this?
Current to the regulations in force in 2026, including the amendments that came into effect on 4 November 2025 — Level 1 Complex operations, medium RPAS, EVLOS and sheltered operations. Every document carries the date it was last verified against Transport Canada's published rules.
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Every core limit for Basic and Advanced operations — altitudes, distances from people and airports, airspace and the fines for getting it wrong. Printable for the flight bag. We'll also email you when the rules change.
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