FAA A&P Study Help

FAA A&P Study helps you practice for the FAA Aviation Mechanic knowledge tests: General, Airframe and Powerplant. Here are answers to common questions. How the app handles your data is described in the Privacy Policy, and the rules for using it in the Terms of Use. If you still need help, email us (see Contact at the end).

About the questions

• Not affiliated with or endorsed by the FAA. Practice questions are original or taken from FAA-published public-domain sample material.
• Answers and explanations are written by us from FAA handbooks, not by the FAA. Questions the FAA published are labeled with the year it published them. The current test may differ.
• Every explanation quotes its FAA source with the document, chapter and page. For questions answered from a figure, the FAA figure is shown with the question.

Free week and plans

• Every feature is free for 7 days from the first time you open the app on a device.
• After the free week, starting practice, review, bookmarked questions or a new practice exam needs a plan: a monthly or yearly subscription, or a one-time Lifetime purchase, sold through the App Store or Google Play. The plans appear when you start one of these.
• To see the plans at any time: Settings › Subscription (the last section) › View plans.
• Without a plan, your progress, your past exam results and their explanations stay available, and a practice exam you already started can be finished.
• To restore a purchase on a new or reset device, or after reinstalling: Settings › Subscription › Restore purchases. Use the same Apple Account or Google account you bought with.
• To cancel or change a subscription:
  • iPhone and iPad: Settings app › your name › Subscriptions › FAA A&P Study. Apple's guide: https://support.apple.com/en-us/118428
  • Android: Google Play app › your profile picture › Payments & subscriptions › Subscriptions › FAA A&P Study. Google's guide: https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/7018481
• Deleting the app does not cancel a subscription. Refunds are handled by Apple or Google under their own rules:
  • Apple: https://support.apple.com/en-us/118223
  • Google Play: https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/2479637
• A Lifetime purchase keeps working offline. A subscription keeps working offline for up to 45 days after the app last confirmed it with the store.
• If your payment is pending, the plan starts when the store completes it.

Practice exams

• Practice exams use the FAA test format: General 60 questions, Airframe 100 questions and Powerplant 100 questions, 2 hours each, 70% to pass. Questions are drawn from every topic area in proportion.
• There is no feedback until you submit. You can flag questions and check all your answers on the review screen before you submit.
• If you leave an exam, your answers are saved and the timer keeps running. If time runs out while the app is closed, the exam is submitted when you open it again. Unanswered questions count as wrong.
• After 2 full-length practice exams, the Study tab shows Ready or Not yet for that test. It is based on your practice results in this app and does not predict your FAA test result.

Review and bookmarks

• A question you miss comes back for review the next day. Answer it correctly on its review day and it comes back after 3 days, then after 7 days, and then it is done.
• Practice sets have 20 questions: due reviews first, then new ones. Questions due today are also listed in Review.
• Tap the bookmark at the top of a question to save it. Saved questions are listed in Bookmarks.

Reporting a problem with a question

• On a practice question, tap the report button at the top of the screen, next to the bookmark. Choose a reason, add details if you like, and tap Write email.
• This opens your own email app with the question ID, the reason, your note, the start of the question text and the app and question bank versions filled in. Nothing is sent until you press send. If no email app is found, the app copies our email address instead.
• Please do not include questions you saw on an actual FAA test. Sharing test content is not allowed (14 CFR 65.18).
• Corrected questions arrive with app updates.

Questions in English, with translations

• The FAA knowledge test is given in English, so questions, answer choices and explanations stay in English, as on the test. Quotes from FAA handbooks and document names are not translated.
• The app's screens are available in English, Chinese (Simplified), Hindi, Spanish, French, Arabic and Bengali. When the app is in Chinese (Simplified), Hindi, Spanish, French, Arabic and Bengali, a translation appears below each question, answer choice and explanation to help you study.
• The app follows your device language, and there is no language menu inside the app. To use a different language for this app only, open your device settings: on iPhone and iPad, find FAA A&P Study in the Settings app and choose Language; on Android 13 or later, go to Settings › Apps › FAA A&P Study › Language.
• To turn translations off, use Settings › Preferences › Show translations, or tap Hide translation on a question. Show translations appears only when the app is in a language that has translations. Your choice is kept on your device.

Offline and no account

• Questions, explanations and figures are built into the app, so you can study without an internet connection. There is no account, no sign-in and no third-party ads. The app shows cards for other apps by the same developer when you open it and at the top of Settings.
• Your progress is stored only on this device. It is not backed up or moved to a new phone, so a new device starts with a fresh study record. A plan you bought moves with your Apple Account or Google account: use Restore purchases.

Resetting progress

• Settings › Your data › Reset progress deletes your answers, bookmarks, review schedule and exam results on this device, including an exam in progress, and the record of your problem reports. It cannot be undone.
• Resetting does not restart the free week and does not affect a plan you bought.

Usage statistics

To help improve the app, it can send statistics about which screens and features are used (Google Analytics for Firebase). Your answers, notes and name are never sent. In the European Economic Area and Switzerland the app asks first. You can turn this off at any time in Settings › Preferences › Send app usage statistics. Details are in the Privacy Policy.