Field Notes
One email a month on drone education: what changed in the rules, what works in classrooms, and what we're learning building a drone course from scratch.
Inside each issue
Field Notes
5-minute read
The one thing
The month's most useful article, summarized in a few sentences with the number or fact that matters most.
For example, from our latest article:Reinforcement Learning: How the Method Behind Chatbots Is Teaching Drones and RobotsThe same training method that fine-tunes large language models now trains drones and robots. How it works, a champion-level drone racing case study, and how students can try it.Rules watch. What changed, and what did not, in Part 107, Part 108, Remote ID and FCC rules. Every line dated and linked to the source.
Classroom corner. One activity, lesson hook or funding tip a teacher can use this month.
Bench notes. Our Drone Building course, built in the open: a design choice, a part, a failure and how we fixed it.
Practice question. One original Part 107 question, with the answer and explanation on the site.
Issues
- Nov 2026Issue 1Coming Tuesday, November 3, 2026
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When: the first Tuesday of each month. July and August are one summer issue. At most one extra email in a month, and only for real news, like a course opening or a final FAA rule.
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