Learn FPV by doing.

Beginner

Module 1

Quadcopter Anatomy

Practice identifying parts, paths and prop direction, and how motor speeds steer the quad.

• B01 · Quadcopter Anatomy
• B02 · Motors & props up close
• B03 · Radio & video links
• B03a · How four motors steer the quad

Module 2

Electrical Foundations

Practice reading electrical quantities, predicting current, power and heat, and series versus parallel.

• B04 · Read electrical quantities and units
• B05 · Predict current, power and heat
• B06 · Series, parallel and switched power

Module 3

Power Systems & LiPo

Practice battery voltage, capacity, sag and safe handling.

• B07 · Cells & pack voltage
• B08 · Capacity, energy and flight-time estimates
• B09 · C-rating & voltage sag
• B10 · Charging, storage & safety
• B11 · Battery triage after use or damage

Module 4

Safe Bench Foundations

Practice judging solder joints, preparing a safe bench, using a meter safely and building power paths.

• B12 · Judge a solder joint
• B13 · Prepare a safe workbench
• B14 · Use a meter without making a short
• B15 · Build the power and ground paths
• B16 · Beginner capstone: power it or stop?

Intermediate

Module 5

Propulsion & Part Matching

Practice matching KV, props, ESCs and mounts, and building a compatibility evidence checklist.

• I01 · KV, voltage and motor loading
• I02 · Prop load and thrust-table conditions
• I03 · Choose an ESC and supported firmware
• I04 · Frame clearances, screws and mounts
• I05 · Build a compatibility evidence checklist

Module 6

FC Wiring & Protocols

Practice power rails, signal connections and version-scoped configuration.

• I06 · The power path & BEC pads
• I07 · UARTs & the receiver
• I08 · ESC protocols: DShot
• I09 · Analog video, digital video and OSD
• I10 · Budget each BEC rail separately

Module 7

Assembly & Commissioning

Practice inspecting the build, first power-up, alignment, arming, failsafe and first-flight checks.

• I11 · Route, solder and inspect the build
• I12 · Unpowered checks and first battery
• I13 · Verify board alignment and motor direction
• I14 · Receiver, arming and failsafe
• I14a · Flight modes: what the sticks command
• I15 · First flight and immediate inspection
• I16 · Intermediate capstone: commission the worked build

Advanced

Module 8

Electrical Performance

Practice sag margins, wire and connector losses, and regulator heat and supply noise.

• A01 · Sag and remaining current margin
• A02 · Wire and connector losses under pulses
• A03 · Regulator heat and supply noise

Module 9

Flight Behavior

Practice mass, thrust-to-weight, hover, balance, inertia and propwash.

• A04 · Mass, TWR and hover
• A05 · Balance, inertia and propwash

Module 10

PID Tuning Basics

Practice interpreting control terms, traces and filtering evidence.

• A06 · What P, I and D do
• A07 · Reading a step response
• A08 · Filters & hot motors

Module 11

Flight Control Systems

Practice how the flight controller senses, estimates, controls and protects the quad: sensors, the complementary filter, cascaded loops, the mixer and failsafe logic.

• A08a · What the IMU and compass really measure
• A08b · Blend gyro and accelerometer: the complementary filter
• A08c · Angle loop over rate loop: cascaded control
• A08d · The mixer and its limits
• A08e · Failsafe logic: events, states and actions

Module 12

RF Planning

Practice decibels, path loss, antenna orientation, clearance and interference.

• A09 · dB, wavelength and free-space loss
• A10 · Antenna orientation, Fresnel clearance and margin
• A11 · Video/GPS interference and transmitter coordination

Module 13

Fault Diagnosis

Practice choosing the check that separates one fault from another.

• A12 · Won’t arm or flips on takeoff
• A13 · Separate control-link faults from video faults
• A14 · Hot motors and a stopping motor
• A15 · Calibrate measurements before judging flight time
• A16 · Advanced capstone: separate the faults

Pro

Module 14

Engineering Models

Practice the guide's motor, battery, thrust, density and speed models, and their limits.

• P01 · Motor torque, current and efficiency
• P02 · Battery current is not motor-path current
• P03 · Thrust curves and the ideal hover bound
• P04 · Air density and thrust reserve
• P05 · Pitch speed, tip speed and real top speed
• P06 · Coupled sag and honest endurance estimates

Module 15

Signal Timing & Power Protection

Practice DShot timing, aliasing evidence, LC filtering and inrush limits.

• P07 · DShot timing, commands and telemetry paths
• P08 · Aliasing and RPM-filter evidence
• P09 · LC filtering, inrush and protection limits

Module 16

RF Engineering

Practice link budgets near the ground, mismatch, reflected power and EIRP.

• P10 · Link budgets near the ground
• P11 · Mismatch, reflected power and EIRP

Module 17

Configuration & Design Validation

Practice version-safe configuration, release evidence and validation planning.

• P12 · Version-safe configuration repair
• P13 · Transport and flight-release evidence
• P14 · Audit the full-charge worked design
• P15 · Build the validation plan
• P16 · Pro capstone: accept, reject or request evidence

Module 18

Modeling & Simulation

Optional deep dives from the companion textbook: frames and rotations, the rigid-body model, Kalman filtering, propulsion design, loop shaping and model-based design. Take them after the Advanced capstone, in any order their prerequisites allow; the Pro capstone doesn't require them.

• P17 · Frames, Euler angles and rotations
• P18 · The rigid-body model and motor lag
• P19 · Kalman filtering for attitude
• P20 · Propulsion design from component models
• P21 · Loop shaping: margins and motor lag
• P22 · Model-based design: SIL, HIL and flight tests