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
- BETAFPV
- 19500KV - 6mm Brushed Motor
- 1102 Brushless Motor
- 1103 Brushless Motor
- 1105 Brushless Motor
- 0802SE Brushless Motors (23000KV, 22000KV, or 19500KV)
- Blade - Inductrix
- Inductrix Pro Motor
- EMAX
- Tinyhawk II Brushless Motors - TH0802 16000KV
- Tinyhawk III Brushless Motors - TH0802 II 15000KV
- EMAX Nanohawk 0802 19000KV FPV Micro Motor
- Happy Model
- SE0802 16000KV, 19000KV 25000KV
- SE0702 23000KV 26000KV 28000KV
- EX1103 KV11000
- RS0802 20000KV
- iFlight
- iFlight XING-E 1105 6000KV 2-3S Micro Brushless Motors
- LIL-FLOATERS 1103 / 8000kV
- New Bee Drone
- SILVER Edition - 6mm Brushed Motor
- BLACK Edition - 6mm Brushed Motor
- GOLD Edition - 6mm Brushed Motor
- Unicorn Edition - 6mm Brushed Motor
- PLAID Edition - 6mm Brushed Motor
- 0802 18000kv Brushless Motors - Unibell Gold Edition
- 0802 18000kv Brushless Motors - Unibell Espresso Edition
- 0802 18000kv Brushless Motors - Unibell Plaid Edition
- 0802 14000KV Brushless Motors - Unibell Espresso Edition
- NewBeeDrone Flow 0702 Dual Ball Bearing Whoop motor 29000kv
- NewBeeDrone 0703 16420kv Brushless Motors - Silver Edition
- Hummingbird 0802 25000kv Brushless Motors
- NewBeeDrone Flow 0804 Dual Ball-Bearing Whoop Motor 14000KV & 19000KV & 25000KV
- NewBeeDrone FLOW 1102 Motor - 10000KV
- Rcinpower
- GTS-V3 1002 22000KV Motor
- STRIX
- Kinetix Motor 59k RPM 6mm x 15mm
- T-Motor
- T-Motor M1104 7500Kv Micro Motor
- T-Motor M1103 8000Kv Micro Motor
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.
