Season Guide & Authorized Components

2024-25 Season Guide

Your Complete Guide to the Drones in School Program

What Drone can you use?

Many manufacturers offer small-scale aircraft that meet the Drones in School Season Guide requirements. 


To make curriculum development possible, Drones in School partners with the following companies to offer a comprehensive team equipment package supported with Drones in School curriculum specific to the aircraft included. Although using these models are not required to participate, we recommend them for new teams since our aligned curriculum greatly reduces the learning curve for launching a successful.


Flight Procedures

Pre-Flight Checklist

Authorized Components

Flight Controllers


  • Aikon
  • Aikon F7 Mini V3
  • BetaFPV
  • Matrix 1S Brushless Flight Controller (5IN1)
  • BETAFPV Toothpick F405 2-4S AIO Brushless Flight Controller 20A (BLHELI_32/BMI270) V4
  • BETAFPV F4 1S 12A AIO Brushless Flight Controller 2022
  • F4 1S AIO Brushless Flight Controller
  • F4 1S 5A AIO Brushless Flight Controller (ELRS 2.4G)
  • Air Brushless Flight Controller
  • F4 2-3S 20A AIO FC V1
  • Blade
  • Blade - Inductrix FPV Pro BNF
  • Eachine
  • Eachine Beecore V2 - F3 with OSD - DSM2/X
  • Eachine Beecore V2 - F3 with OSD - FlySky 
  • Eachine Beecore V2 - F3 with OSD - FrSky
  • Emax
  • EMAX TinyHawk II F4 Flight Controller
  • EMAX TinyHawk III F4 Flight Controller
  • EMAX Nanohawk F4 5A 1S BL_S AIO Flight Controller
  • Happymodel
  • Crazybee F3 Pro 
  • CrazyF411 F4 2-4S Whoop/Toothpick AIO Flight Controller
  • X12 AIO flight controller w/ built-in 2.4G ELRS V2.0 and OPENVTX
  • HDZero
  • HDZero AIO5
  • HISINGY
  • HISINGY MD 1S AIO
  • HGLRC
  • SPECTER 10A 1-2S ELRS AIO VTX 400mW F411 Flight Control 10A BL_S 5 in 1 FC
  • NewBeeDrone
  • BeeBrain V2 Micro FPV Flight Controller
  • NewBeeDrone - BeeBrain Lite
  • NewBeeDrone BeeBrain BLV3 AIO Flight Controller
  • HummingBird V3.1 AIO Flight Controller ExpressLRS(ELRS)2.4g with 25mw VTX
  • ​NewBeeDrone BeeBrain BLV4 AIO Flight Controller ExpressLRS(ELRS) 2.4G
  • NewBeeDrone BeeBrain BLV5 AIO Flight Controller ELRS 2.4G
  • T-Motor
  • F411 1S 25x25 AIO Flight Controller with 13A 32Bit ESCF4 2-4S AIO Brushless Flight Controller 12A V2

Motors


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Do you have a different flight controller or motor that is similar to one listed above? If so, email us the details and we will consider adding it to the list.