ANAC RBAC 100 Remote Pilot

It shows that you have met ANAC's knowledge requirement for flying unmanned aircraft in the open category under RBAC 100. It is a pilot qualification, not a licence to fly anywhere: you still have to respect airspace restrictions, distance-from-people limits, and any authorisation your specific operation needs.

It is a multiple-choice knowledge test delivered in Portuguese, covering the regulatory, airspace, meteorological, performance, navigation, operational, human-factors, communications and systems areas listed in the RBAC 100 syllabus. Questions are applied rather than purely definitional, so read each stem carefully for the scenario and the specific aircraft or location described.

Those figures are set by ANAC and change from time to time, so we do not publish them here. Check the current exam notice and the RBAC 100 pages on the ANAC website (gov.br/anac) before you book, and confirm the fee and scheduling procedure at the same time.

Most candidates find the regulations and airspace sections manageable with careful reading, and the meteorology and performance items the hardest, because they require reasoning rather than memorisation. If you have flown before, your practical experience helps, but do not skip the rule book: many wrong answers come from assuming a rule works the way it does in another country.

Retake rules, waiting periods and any additional fees are set by ANAC and by the examination provider administering the test. Confirm the current policy with them before you sit the exam. In practice, candidates who fail usually did not study the current regulation text or misread scenario questions, so review both before rebooking.

A few weeks of steady study is typical for someone starting fresh. Start with the RBAC 100 text and ANAC guidance, then airspace and authorisation, then meteorology and performance, then navigation and flight planning. Finish with operational risk, emergencies, human factors and communications, and do practice questions throughout rather than only at the end.

Answering from habit instead of from the current rule; confusing categories of operation and their limits; ignoring the specific aircraft, location or weather in the stem; and weak grasp of mass-and-balance and density-altitude effects on performance. Another frequent error is treating airspace classes and authorisation requirements as interchangeable when they are not.

The knowledge test itself is theoretical, but flying experience makes the performance, meteorology and emergency items far easier to reason about. If you are new, read your aircraft's manual alongside the regulation so that figures such as maximum take-off mass and endurance mean something concrete rather than abstract numbers.

No. This is independent study material and has no affiliation with or endorsement from ANAC. Use it to organise your preparation, but treat the current RBAC 100 regulation, ANAC's official guidance and the exam provider's instructions as the authoritative sources for every requirement.