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Clear107 is a Part 107 exam-prep tool. This is not that. Here's the difference, and why it's worth keeping the two separate.

Ivan TesolkinFounder, Clear107

Clear107 does one job: get you ready to pass the FAA Part 107 knowledge test. The whole product is built around that constraint: no bloated course, no filler, a diagnostic that tells you what to study and a simulator that tells you when you're ready.

This blog is not that.

An exam-prep tool has to be narrow to be good. An opinion about where the drone industry is headed doesn't fit inside that constraint, and forcing it to fit would make both worse.

What this space is for

This is where longer-form thinking about the drone industry lives: regulation, UAV hardware and software trends, robotics adjacent to drones, and commentary that doesn't have a clean answer key the way an FAA exam question does. If you're here because you're cramming for the Part 107 test next week, you're in the wrong place: go to the handbook or run the free diagnostic instead.

Posts here are opinion and analysis, not exam content. Nothing on this blog is FAA-sourced study material; for that, the handbook is the canonical source, with every claim linked to a real FAA document.

What it's not

It's not a second front door for Clear107 dressed up as a blog. Posts here won't constantly loop back to "and that's why you should buy Practice Pass." Where a post genuinely connects to something Clear107 does, it'll say so once, plainly:

If you do end up needing to get licensed, Clear107's diagnostic is free and takes about ten minutes.

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That's the only kind of plug you'll see here, and only where it's actually relevant to the post.

What's coming

Real posts about the actual state of the drone industry: where the interesting arguments are, what's changing in regulation, where robotics and UAVs overlap. Written with an actual point of view, not search-engine filler.

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Builds Clear107, a focused FAA Part 107 exam-prep platform. 500+ hours of flight time across a range of drone types, plus a from-scratch project converting a 650 kg MTOW manned aircraft into an unmanned one. Writes here about the drone industry, UAV regulation, and robotics beyond just exam content.