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The Dorian Drone Part 107 Course
Learn the FAA knowledge, then practice the decision. Every lesson connects a current source to a field consequence, a pilot call, and a short debrief.
Source review: July 2026
This is independent educational material, not an FAA endorsement or certificate. Regulations and procedures can change. Use the linked current sources when making an operational decision.
THE FLIGHT PLAN
Start at Unit 01. Finish with a current pilot system.
The course is chronological, but every lesson remains available for review. Your completion state is stored privately in this browser.
01Build Your Learning Flight Plan
Set up a study system, learn the FAA source stack, and understand how this course turns knowledge into operational decisions.
8 lessons
Build Your Learning Flight Plan
Set up a study system, learn the FAA source stack, and understand how this course turns knowledge into operational decisions.
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Set Up a Study System That Sticks
Build a repeatable plan around retrieval, error review, and demonstrated readiness instead of passive rereading.
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Learn the Test Book Before the Test
Treat the FAA testing supplement as a navigation tool: find the figure, read its legend, then answer only what the question asks.
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Choose Your Study Tempo
Use an intensive, standard, or flexible tempo while allocating more time to weak domains and mixed review.
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Meet Dorian and Understand the Course
Know what this training can do, what only the FAA can issue, and why exam knowledge is not the same as flight proficiency.
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Speak the Language of Remote Flight
Build a working vocabulary for aircraft, crew, altitude, visibility, airspace permission, weather, and Remote ID.
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Get Help Without Losing Momentum
Ask precise questions, separate platform issues from regulatory questions, and use current primary sources to resolve uncertainty.
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Weekly Mission Review Lab
Use a structured weekly debrief to connect several topics inside one realistic mission instead of replaying memorized questions.
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Build a Trusted Resource Stack
Organize current regulations, FAA guidance, charts, weather, NOTAM, registration, and testing material by the decision each source supports.
02Rules Before Rotors
Translate Part 107 responsibilities, aircraft requirements, operating limits, people exposure, VLOS, permissions, and Remote ID into launch decisions.
13 lessons
Rules Before Rotors
Translate Part 107 responsibilities, aircraft requirements, operating limits, people exposure, VLOS, permissions, and Remote ID into launch decisions.
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Who Part 107 Covers
Determine whether Part 107 applies, what counts as a small unmanned aircraft system, and who can exercise remote-pilot privileges.
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Who Owns the Flight Decision?
Assign crew roles while keeping final operational authority and safety responsibility with the remote PIC, including when more than one aircraft is available.
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Make the Aircraft Legal
Register each Part 107 aircraft correctly, mark it, and keep the registration information available during operations.
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When a Flight Goes Wrong
Protect people first, use emergency authority only as necessary, then document and report qualifying events on time.
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Know the Operating Envelope
Apply Part 107 speed, altitude, visibility, and cloud-clearance limits together with any narrower authorization conditions.
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Documents, Maintenance, and the Flight Record
Carry required credentials, produce required records for authorized inspection, and protect every certificate, authorization, record, and report from falsification.
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Operating From a Moving Platform
Distinguish the ban on operating from a moving aircraft from the narrow land-or-water vehicle exception.
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People, Vehicles, and Exposure Categories
Control exposure first, then apply the exact aircraft category, declaration, site, assembly, and moving-vehicle conditions to the remaining operation.
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Keep the Aircraft in Sight
Maintain the visual information needed to know aircraft position, attitude, direction, traffic, and hazards throughout the operation.
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Fit to Fly
Apply the alcohol and drug rule to its specified flightcrew roles, then use a wider fitness assessment for everyone whose condition can affect the operation.
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Permission or Exception?
Choose the correct FAA path by separating controlled-airspace access from deviation from a waivable operating rule.
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Remote ID: What the Aircraft Broadcasts
Identify the compliant pathway, verify the aircraft or module declaration and label, connect the serial to registration, and understand what each system broadcasts.
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Checkpoint: Can This Mission Legally Launch?
Combine purpose, pilot, aircraft, payload, equipment, airspace, exposure, documents, and contingency planning in one go/no-go brief.
03Night Flight
Plan legal night operations, protect visual performance, recognize illusions, and make lighting and crew decisions before darkness.
5 lessons
Night Flight
Plan legal night operations, protect visual performance, recognize illusions, and make lighting and crew decisions before darkness.
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When Day Becomes Night
Use authoritative local times, current training eligibility, and a compliant anti-collision light to plan civil-twilight and night operations.
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Build a Night-Safe Mission
Scout in daylight, protect dark adaptation, brief failures, and use a conservative obstacle and battery plan.
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Why Peripheral Vision Matters After Dark
Use basic eye physiology to scan more effectively without turning a safety lesson into medical advice.
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Seven Ways Darkness Can Mislead You
Recognize autokinesis, fixation, false horizons, reversible perspective, size-distance errors, flicker effects, and black-hole conditions.
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Checkpoint: Night Go or No-Go
Combine eligibility, lighting, twilight, vision, obstacles, traffic, batteries, crew, and failure plans into a night release decision.
04Read the Airspace
Identify controlled and uncontrolled airspace, special-use areas, military routes, and time-sensitive restrictions at the mission altitude.
10 lessons
Read the Airspace
Identify controlled and uncontrolled airspace, special-use areas, military routes, and time-sensitive restrictions at the mission altitude.
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The Blue Shelves Around Major Hubs
Recognize Class B boundaries and read each floor and ceiling before deciding whether a planned altitude enters the airspace.
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Read the Magenta Rings
Recognize Class C, read its shelves, and compare the aircraft's actual MSL altitude with the charted limits.
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Towered-Airport Airspace and Operating Hours
Read dashed blue boundaries, bracketed ceilings, and current tower hours before classifying the mission airspace.
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Solve the Class E Puzzle
Separate designated Class E surface areas from transition airspace beginning at 700 or 1,200 feet AGL.
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Uncontrolled Does Not Mean Unmanaged
Recognize Class G while continuing to apply Part 107, traffic, weather, site, restriction, and local-property checks.
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Special-Use Airspace and Other Charted Areas
Distinguish prohibited, restricted, warning, alert, military-operations, controlled-firing, and national-security areas by their controlling limitations.
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Military Routes and Other Traffic Areas
Read IR and VR routes, TRSAs, parachute activity, and published VFR routes as distinct traffic cues rather than one generic restriction.
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Time-Sensitive Restrictions
Read NOTAMs and TFRs for location, radius, altitude, effective time, purpose, and exceptions immediately before flight.
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Airspace Decision Lab
Combine chart symbols, vertical limits, operating time, authorization, notices, special-use status, and non-airspace flight hazards in a documented decision.
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Checkpoint: The Airspace Decision Matrix
Use a consistent matrix to identify the space, compare mission altitude, verify current status, and choose authorization, coordination, avoidance, or no-go.
05Read Sectional Charts
Turn latitude, symbols, elevations, airport data, magnetic variation, and charted routes into a precise three-dimensional mission picture.
11 lessons
Read Sectional Charts
Turn latitude, symbols, elevations, airport data, magnetic variation, and charted routes into a precise three-dimensional mission picture.
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What a Sectional Is Telling You
Read a sectional as a layered planning document rather than a colorful map.
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Pin the Location With Latitude and Longitude
Use degrees, minutes, and seconds to locate the correct chart position and avoid confusing nearby features.
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VFR Checkpoints and Reporting Points
Recognize charted checkpoints as crewed-aircraft navigation and reporting references that can predict traffic concentration.
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Notification and Caution Boxes
Read chart notes, boundary labels, frequencies, and caution text before relying on the visual symbol alone.
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AGL, MSL, and the Altitude Conversion
Put terrain, obstacles, airspace, and aircraft altitude into the same reference before comparing them.
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Airport Symbols and Data Blocks
Decode airport color, runway shape, tower status, lighting, elevation, frequency, and special annotations.
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True, Magnetic, and Compass Direction
Understand the direction references well enough to avoid applying a memorized variation rule backward.
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Maximum Elevation Figures
Use the MEF as a terrain-and-obstacle planning cue without treating it as a guaranteed safe altitude.
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Victor Airways and Published Routes
Recognize federal airways as likely crewed-aircraft corridors and understand their charted centerlines and navigation aids.
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Sectional Scenario Lab
Read one chart extract from location through final airspace and hazard decision without skipping altitude conversion.
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Checkpoint: Read the Whole Chart
Demonstrate chart literacy by explaining both the symbol and the operational consequence.
06Airport Operations
Use airport references, patterns, right-of-way, tower status, signs, and markings to anticipate crewed-aircraft movement.
6 lessons
Airport Operations
Use airport references, patterns, right-of-way, tower status, signs, and markings to anticipate crewed-aircraft movement.
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Use the Chart Supplement
Find runway, heliport, seaplane-base, frequency, lighting, traffic-pattern, services, remarks, and operating-hour details that do not fit on a sectional.
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Runways, Patterns, and Traffic Flow
Translate runway numbers, wind, and standard or nonstandard patterns into likely aircraft positions around the site.
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Right-of-Way Belongs to Crewed Aircraft
Detect, communicate, and maneuver so the small UAS never creates a collision hazard.
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Towered and Nontowered Does Not Mean Busy and Quiet
Use procedures and visual awareness appropriate to the airport without assuming tower presence predicts traffic volume.
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Airport Signs, Markings, Lighting, and Security Areas
Recognize runway, taxiway, hold-short, threshold, displaced-threshold, closed-surface, lighting, and restricted-access cues in figures and site imagery.
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Checkpoint: Predict the Aircraft Before You Fly
Combine airport data, wind, runway, pattern, tower status, notices, wildlife, and right-of-way into a traffic plan.
07Weather
Interpret performance, wind, moisture, reports, forecasts, hazards, ceilings, visibility, and stability as one operational weather picture.
9 lessons
Weather
Interpret performance, wind, moisture, reports, forecasts, hazards, ceilings, visibility, and stability as one operational weather picture.
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Density Altitude and Thin-Air Performance
Understand why heat, elevation, and moisture can reduce aircraft performance even on a visually clear day.
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Wind, Gusts, and Terrain
Read sustained wind, gust spread, terrain flow, mechanical turbulence, and return-leg exposure rather than one headline number.
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Moisture, Fog, Clouds, and Frost
Connect dew point, saturation, fog formation, visible moisture, icing, and surface contamination to visibility and aircraft performance.
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Decode a METAR
Translate an aviation routine weather report into wind, visibility, weather, sky condition, temperature, dew point, and pressure.
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Read a TAF as a Timeline
Follow forecast change groups across the exact mission window instead of quoting only the first line.
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Thunderstorms and Aviation Advisories
Recognize convection as a collection of lightning, hail, tornado, microburst, turbulence, and wind hazards, then use current AWC products.
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Ceilings, Visibility, and Cloud Clearance
Turn reported layers and visibility into the stricter of regulation, authorization, aircraft, and mission limits.
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Air Masses, Fronts, and Stability
Use air-mass, frontal, and stability cues to anticipate smoothness, turbulence, cloud shape, visibility, and weather change.
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Checkpoint: Build the Weather Picture
Combine observations, forecasts, weather charts, radar, advisories, terrain, aircraft limits, and site evidence into one time-bound decision.
08Safe Flight Operations
Manage hazards, emergencies, crew, batteries, decision traps, radio awareness, performance, maintenance, and preflight release.
13 lessons
Safe Flight Operations
Manage hazards, emergencies, crew, batteries, decision traps, radio awareness, performance, maintenance, and preflight release.
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Recognize and Control Operational Hazards
Convert people, aircraft, wires, balloons, lasers, thermal plumes, wildlife, terrain, and site conditions into specific controls.
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Build an Emergency Action Plan
Pre-plan immediate actions for traffic, low battery, control loss, flyaway, unexpected people, and forced landing.
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Lost Link, GPS Loss, Radio Limits, and Return-to-Home
Separate control-link, video, and GPS failures, understand the radio-frequency environment, and configure model-specific failsafes for the actual obstacles and airspace.
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Drone Battery Safety and Travel
Inspect, charge, store, respond to fire, transport, log, and retire lithium batteries using manufacturer and FAA travel guidance.
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Aeronautical Decision-Making
Use a repeatable process to identify hazards, compare options, control risk, and reassess when conditions change.
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Crew Resource Management
Manage people, aircraft, information, software, weather, and time so the remote PIC retains the whole picture.
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PAVE, IMSAFE, and DECIDE in Practice
Use three frameworks as working prompts, not vocabulary trophies.
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Defeat the Five Hazardous Attitudes
Recognize anti-authority, impulsivity, invulnerability, macho, and resignation before they shape the mission.
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Radio Awareness Without Creating Confusion
Use airport frequencies, call signs, the phonetic alphabet, and standard aviation phraseology for awareness while understanding that monitoring does not authorize airspace access.
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Payload, Balance, and Performance Margins
Connect weight, center of gravity, stability, performance data, atmosphere, wind, battery, and maneuvering to usable—not advertised—performance.
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Maintenance, Inspection, and Aircraft Release
Ground defects, identify who may perform the work, preserve category eligibility, and document enough history to make a defensible release decision.
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A Model-Specific Preflight Flow
Combine site, rule, crew, aircraft, software, payload, link, lighting, and control checks in a repeatable release sequence.
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Checkpoint: Release the Aircraft
Use a final scenario review to explain the hazard, source, control, residual risk, and release decision.
09Exam and Certification
Simulate the UAG, schedule through the official pathway, handle test day, complete IACRA, and separate certification from flight proficiency.
8 lessons
Exam and Certification
Simulate the UAG, schedule through the official pathway, handle test day, complete IACRA, and separate certification from flight proficiency.
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Simulate the UAG Knowledge Test
Practice the current 60-question, two-hour format with original ACS-aligned problems and a disciplined debrief.
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Final Readiness Check
Use repeated timed performance and domain evidence to decide when to schedule the real exam.
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Get an FTN and Schedule the Exam
Separate test eligibility from certificate eligibility, create the FAA record, then schedule the UAG through the current authorized testing pathway.
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What Happens on Test Day
Arrive with acceptable identification and use the supplement, scratch process, pacing, and review tools deliberately.
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Use Your Test Report as a Debrief
Turn ACS deficiency codes into targeted correction and follow the exact UAG retest process when the result is a failure.
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Apply for the Remote Pilot Certificate
Complete the IACRA application accurately and follow the official identity, testing, and security-vetting sequence.
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Your Dorian Course Completion Record
Understand what an independent training record proves and what it cannot authorize.
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Become Operationally Proficient
Build aircraft skill through controlled progressions because Part 107 certification has no practical flight test.
10Practical Pilot Labs
Apply the rules through airspace research, official-source navigation, service pricing, imaging, flight controls, and cinematic movement.
6 lessons
Practical Pilot Labs
Apply the rules through airspace research, official-source navigation, service pricing, imaging, flight controls, and cinematic movement.
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Research Airspace and Build a Mission Plan
Turn an address and deliverable into a source-dated route, airspace, risk, crew, and contingency plan.
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Navigate Official Drone Answers
Resolve a question by separating regulatory text, FAA process guidance, manufacturer instructions, and local property law.
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Price and Package Drone Services
Use a Dorian Drone business framework to build scope and price from cost, risk, rights, planning, production, delivery, and client outcome.
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Capture HDR Brackets From the Air
Apply Dorian Drone imaging guidance for stable exposure bracketing while keeping the flight inside FAA and manufacturer limits.
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Fifteen-Control Flight Lab
Use a Dorian Drone proficiency progression to develop repeatable control through hover, translations, turns, orientation changes, patterns, landings, and recovery.
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Tune Controls for Cinematic Movement
Apply Dorian Drone production guidance to adjust response carefully, preserve safe stopping authority, and practice shots as repeatable flight paths.
11Maintain Currency
Keep aeronautical knowledge current, retain proof, and review the rule changes that affect real operations.
1 lesson
Maintain Currency
Keep aeronautical knowledge current, retain proof, and review the rule changes that affect real operations.
THE STANDARD
Pass the test. Keep the judgment.
The current UAG testing matrix lists 60 questions, two hours, and a 70% passing score. This course recommends stronger, repeatable performance before you schedule.