Right-of-Way, TFRs, and Restricted Areas
Three Part 107 rules have nothing to do with Class B, C, D, or E, and the exam tests them as their own category, not an airspace footnote.
Most Part 107 airspace study time goes to sectional charts and controlled-airspace authorization, and for good reason: that's where most of the weight sits. But three separate rules, right-of-way, restricted areas, and TFRs, don't depend on airspace class at all, and candidates who've mastered chart-reading still miss questions built around these because they're looking for a chart symbol that isn't the point.
Right-of-way has nothing to do with who called it first
Under 14 CFR §107.37, a small UAS must give way to all other aircraft, manned or unmanned, and can't operate in a way that creates a collision hazard. There's no "the drone was there first" exception and no altitude threshold that changes the obligation. This is one of the more absolute rules in Part 107: the small UAS yields, full stop, regardless of the surrounding circumstances.
Right-of-way under Part 107 isn't negotiated by altitude, timing, or who noticed whom first. The small UAS gives way, categorically.
Restricted and prohibited areas aren't a subset of controlled airspace
14 CFR §107.45 prohibits operating in airspace designated as prohibited or restricted without permission from the using or controlling agency, and this exists independently of whatever airspace class the area also happens to sit inside. A restricted area can overlay Class G airspace, the kind that normally needs no authorization at all under §107.41, and the restriction still applies. Treating "no chart symbol for controlled airspace here" as equivalent to "nothing to check here" is exactly the gap this rule is built to catch.
TFRs move, and the rule follows them
Temporary Flight Restrictions under 14 CFR §107.47 are, by definition, not permanent features of a chart. They get published for wildfires, VIP movement, major sporting events, and disaster response, often with little notice, and they apply regardless of how routine or previously-authorized a location was. A pilot who checked airspace requirements once during preflight planning and treats that as settled hasn't actually checked for TFRs unless they checked again close to the actual flight time.
None of these three rules are waivable in the way some Part 107 provisions are. Right-of-way, restricted-area entry without permission, and TFR violations aren't things a Part 107 waiver process is built to authorize around.
Reading a scenario question on this topic
When a question describes an aircraft in the area, a restricted zone, or a recently-published flight restriction, the airspace class shown or implied usually isn't the deciding factor. Ask instead: is there a specific aircraft to yield to, a restricted or prohibited designation on this exact location, or a TFR active at this exact time, before reaching for whatever the sectional chart symbol at that point would normally suggest.
More on how this fits with the rest of the operating rules in the handbook.
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