How people learn: tests the law requires, and schemes the associations run.

This page names programmes and who runs them. It does not describe flying technique or any training procedure; those come from the schemes themselves and the people who run them.

Tests the law requires, by jurisdiction

These are legal requirements, each in its own country only. Full detail is on each law page.

Transport Canada's manual also mentions an "RPAS 101" guide it developed with the Aerial Evolution Association of Canada. EASA's FPV topic page notes that club races take place on purpose-built FPV tracks, and that clubs or associations seek authorisation from their National Aviation Authority for events.

Association schemes, by country

These are run by model-aircraft associations for their members or for anyone who enters. They are not legal requirements unless an authority's instrument makes them one, as noted.

United States: Academy of Model Aeronautics

• Safety Code (effective 1 January 2018): members keep visual contact with RC models without enhancement other than prescribed corrective lenses, and when flying FPV follow the AMA's Advanced Flight System programming.
• Document 550 (3 March 2021): defines an AMA FPV novice pilot as a member learning FPV with an experienced AMA RC pilot acting as instructor and spotter, and recommends that novice FPV pilots consider a cockpit-view flight simulator (para 4(a)). It defines an AMA FPV spotter as an experienced AMA RC pilot briefed by the FPV pilot and mature enough for the role.
• Document 540-D, See and Avoid Guidance (version of 24 April 2021, seen as a search summary): a spotter must be used for FPV operations.
• Document 551 (its approval date is written 04/05/2014; whether it is current is unconfirmed): indoors, AMA FPV pilots may fly ultra-micro aircraft (up to 150 g) and micro aircraft (up to 300 g) without a spotter, subject to its conditions.
• Introductory Pilot Program: the AMA's guidance on chartered club sites (revised November 2021) describes a programme in which a non-member may be covered during lessons with a designated AMA instructor for 90 consecutive days.

United Kingdom: BMFA and FPV UK

• BMFA Achievement Scheme: a voluntary national scheme in which RC pilots, members or not, have their flying and safety standard tested by an examiner. It has Basic Proficiency, 'A' (entry) and 'B' (advanced) certificates, and holders of a Basic Proficiency or 'A' certificate can add an FPV extension. The scheme's page mentions guidance for drone racing examiners.
• Entry condition: a search summary of the scheme's mandatory-questions page says that since 1 January 2021, anyone taking a new achievement must show a BMFA Registration Competency Certificate or a CAA Flyer ID.
• Article 16 competency: pilots flying under the BMFA's CAA authorisation need appropriate competency, such as the BMFA Registration Competency Certificate or the CAA test, and must declare they have read and understood the authorisation.
• FPV UK: a December 2025 trade report says members flying under its 2026 authorisation must accept it and the FPV UK Handbook.

Canada: Model Aeronautics Association of Canada

A search summary of MAAC's FPV committee page, which returned "not found", lists two MAAC documents, MAP 09 "Flying First Person View" and MSD 08 "Use of First Person View Devices"; neither was read, so their content is unknown here. Under Transport Canada exemption NCR-011-2019, condition 10, MAAC members must show sufficient knowledge and control to a person MAAC appoints, unless flying under a qualified MAAC instructor; whether the exemption is still in force is unconfirmed.

Australia: Model Aeronautical Association of Australia

The MAAA's FPV policy, MOP066 (19 August 2019), uses its "Wings" proficiency standards: a Bronze Wings requirement for pilots in command, and the Silver Wings standard for FPV pilots in command of models over 2 kg or flown above 100 ft (sections 4 and 7.3). At FPV races, the Event Director and Flight Line Director brief pilots on site safety rules before racing (section 9.2). MOP066 is the policy that CASA.RPAS.0572 (section 4(2)) requires those flying FPV under the approval (MAAA affiliate members and listed visitor classes) to follow.

Simulators

Simulators appear in the record as organisers and associations name them:

• MultiGP names Velocidrone as its official drone racing simulator and runs an E-Sport class raced in it.
• The AMA's Document 550 recommends that novice FPV pilots consider a cockpit-view simulator.
• Wikipedia records that the DRL ran its own simulator and held an annual simulator tryout to recruit pilots.