The standing stadium restriction is a special security instruction under §99.7, published as an FDC NOTAM. It prohibits aircraft operations, including unmanned aircraft, within 3 nautical miles of a covered stadium or venue, from the surface up to and including 3,000 feet AGL, from 1 hour before the scheduled start until 1 hour after the event ends. Section 107.47 requires the remote pilot in command to comply with that §99.7 instruction.
What the standing instruction covers
The FAA's stadium page, last updated November 19, 2025, lists the events this restriction follows: Major League Baseball, the National Football League, NCAA Division One football, and NASCAR Sprint Cup, Indy Car, and Champ Series races. The underlying NOTAM, issued pursuant to §99.7, also limits the stadiums to those with a seating capacity of 30,000 or more for the baseball, football, and NCAA games, and it excludes qualifying and pre-race events from the motor races. Drones are named in the notice. They are not left out because the aircraft is small.
Section 91.145 is a different tool. It is the temporary-flight-restriction authority for aerial demonstrations and for major sporting events that are managed that way. FAA air-traffic guidance states that a §91.145 TFR is not what is issued for the standing list above. Do not look for a fresh §91.145 notice and treat a quiet result as permission to fly the game. The standing instruction is already the §99.7 NOTAM. Still read the current NOTAM before launch, because a delay, an overtime, or an added restriction can change the window. How to pull that briefing is on the NOTAM page.
The practical box is the three numbers. Inside 3 nautical miles, at or below 3,000 feet AGL, from one hour before until one hour after, a covered event is off limits unless the notice itself authorizes the flight. A parking-lot survey at 200 feet AGL and 1 nautical mile from the stadium is inside that box. A site 4 nautical miles away is outside the radius, and it can still have a separate restriction you have to read.
Restricted areas use a different sentence
Section 107.45 is not the stadium rule. No person may operate a small unmanned aircraft in a prohibited or restricted area unless that person has permission from the using or controlling agency, as appropriate. Before you operate inside a charted restricted area, obtain that permission unless the area is not active under the published schedule and status. Comply with the published times. When the area is active, the controlling agency's permission is the entry condition.
A Military Operations Area is not that condition. Treating a restricted area as a MOA and proceeding without coordination is the miss. Obtaining a blessing only from the airport manager is also the miss. The airport manager is not the using or controlling agency for the restricted area. Prohibited areas have their own prohibitions under the same §107.45 permission sentence. The chart symbols, the MOA distinction, and the way an inactive restricted area is checked are already explained on the MOA and restricted area page.
Other airspace the ACS lists on purpose
The remote pilot ACS, area UA.II.A.K3, covers other airspace areas: airport advisory services, military training routes, temporary flight restrictions, parachute-jump operations, terminal radar service areas, national security areas, and VFR routes. A test question that asks for examples accepts military training routes, parachute-jump operations, TRSAs, national security areas, and VFR routes as that set. "Only prohibited and restricted areas" is too narrow. "Only airport surface areas" is a different topic.
These areas do not share one legal effect. The stadium instruction is the §99.7 notice you comply with under §107.47. A restricted area is a §107.45 permission problem. A national security area note that requests avoidance is a request unless a real restriction is in effect. A military training route is a low, fast traffic warning, not a restricted-area block. Parachute-jump symbols and TRSA outlines are charted so you know the activity or the service exists. VFR routes are charted paths, not a drone authorization. Learning the names as one list, and then pretending every name has the restricted-area rule, is how the list gets misused.
A game day, decided from the notice
Suppose the job is a parking-lot survey 1 nautical mile from a stadium, at 200 feet AGL, during an NFL game. Class G and a low altitude do not open the §99.7 box. You are inside 3 nautical miles and below 3,000 feet AGL, and the window runs from 1 hour before the scheduled start until 1 hour after the game ends. You move the job or you wait. If a charted restricted area also sits on the site, you handle that separately under §107.45 and the published status. The two checks are not substitutes for each other.
The trap
The stadium item is failed by assuming drones are exempt or by overflying the venue for the shot. The restricted-area item is failed by using MOA habits or by asking only the airport manager. The "other airspace" item is failed by collapsing MTRs, parachute operations, TRSAs, national security areas, and VFR routes into "just prohibited areas" or "just the airport." Check the notice. Get the right agency when §107.45 applies. Keep the legal effects distinct.
Run the airspace items on the free practice test. The chart and airspace lessons are in the course.