Is your Part 107 still current? Renewing takes one free course.

The FAA Remote Pilot Certificate itself does not expire. What lapses is your recency — your authority to exercise Remote Pilot in Command (PIC) privileges — at the end of the 24th calendar month after the last date you passed the initial knowledge test (UAG) or completed recurrent training (14 CFR §107.65). Miss that window and you may not operate under Part 107 until you complete recurrent training again. The certificate in your wallet still says remote pilot; the privilege behind it has quietly gone cold.

Worked example:if you passed your UAG test or completed recurrent training in March 2024, your recency runs through the 24th calendar month after that — the end of March 2026, not "24 months to the day." And recurrent training resets the clock from its completion date, not the date your certificate was issued.

Since April 6, 2021, recurrent training moved online and became free. There is no PSI test center, no proctor, and no separate fee for the recurrent path — that fee only ever applied to your initial UAG knowledge test.

1. Take the free course. Log in to the FAA Safety Team site (faasafety.gov) and complete ALC-677: Part 107 Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS) Recurrent. It is free and entirely online.
2. Pass the embedded review.Complete the training's knowledge review — there is no separate scheduled exam.
3. Save your completion certificate. Your recency resets to a fresh 24 calendar months from the completion date. Log the new recurrent date in AeroCopilot so your countdown re-arms.

ALC-677 is free — we never charge for it, and there is no paid AeroCopilot step in this process.

Three concrete regulatory deltas a lapsed pilot likely missed:

• Remote ID (Part 89). Fully enforced since March 16, 2024. If your drone requires FAA registration, it must now broadcast Remote ID — either as a standard Remote ID drone, via an add-on broadcast module, or by flying only at an FAA-Recognized Identification Area (FRIA).
• Night operations (§107.29). Since April 2021 you may fly at night without a waiver, as long as your aircraft has anti-collision lighting visible for at least 3 statute miles and your recurrent or initial training covered night operations.
• Operations over people (§107.39, Subpart D). Now permitted under Categories 1–4 — Category 1 covers drones weighing 0.55 lb or less — each with its own operating limits and, for Categories 2 and 3, manufacturer compliance requirements.

AeroCopilot's Regulation Updates turns deltas like these into short, quizzable refreshers, so you are not relearning Part 107 from scratch — you are catching up on what moved.

Getting current is step one. Staying current — and flying legally when you do — is what the platform is for.

• A recency countdown that won't let you lapse again. Color-coded at 60 days (amber), 30 days (red), 7 days (pulsing), then "expired — must complete recurrent training."
• One compliance dashboard. Certificate, recurrent training, registration, Remote ID, and insurance in a single view with expiration alerts.
• "What changed" turned into study. FAA regulation changes presented as bite-size refreshers with quizzes.
• A Part 107 practice bank with Live Context. Practice questions, plus questions generated from real current weather, NOTAMs, and flight conditions — not a static PDF.
• An AI Copilot built in.Ask "is my Part 107 current?" or "can I fly over this park?" grounded in official FAA and weather data, never fabricated. Included on every tier — Free includes roughly 5 chats a day, with no per-message token cap on any plan.
• Address-based airspace check. Type a street address, get the airspace class and LAANC ceiling before you launch.
• A guided §107.9 incident helper. If something goes wrong, a 3-step workflow with the 10-day reporting deadline tracked for you.

These same tools are also why drone operators and small teams use AeroCopilot day to day, not just when a certificate is about to lapse.

Recency is one box, not the whole checklist. Even with fresh currency you still need: a registered aircraft (Part 107 requires registration regardless of weight), Remote ID broadcasting where applicable, airspace authorization where controlled airspace applies, and an airworthy aircraft. AeroCopilot checks recency andthe rest — so "current" never gets mistaken for "good to go."