How to use the drone license requirements calculator
Remote pilot certificates ask for different logged flight time, different training and a different minimum age depending on the category you intend to fly, and some require a knowledge test while others do not. Enter the figures printed in the current notice next to your own totals and the tool lines them up item by item.
An item counts as met when your total is equal to or greater than the required figure. The shortfall is the requirement minus your total, and it shows as 0 once you are past the requirement. Enter 0 for anything the notice does not ask for and that item is treated as met.
No requirement figures are stored on this page, because the categories and their thresholds are revised. The result therefore says only whether the criteria you entered are met, and it does not conclude that you are eligible to apply. Check the notice again before you submit, since extra conditions and exclusions may apply.
Frequently Asked Questions
Remote pilot rules are revised and they differ by the category of operation. Printed figures would be wrong soon after a change, so the tool reads the numbers from the notice you are actually applying under.
It counts as met. With 20 hrs required and 20 hrs logged the item is met and the shortfall reads 0 hrs.
Not necessarily. Certificates carry extra conditions and exclusions that this page cannot see, so it reports only whether the criteria you typed in are met.