Part 107 Training, Built by Operators Who Actually Fly
Quantum Dynamics is a premium UAS training academy and flight services company, rooted in four decades of professional aviation at Timberland Helicopters. We have trained more than 1,500 remote pilots, and we built the Flight Lab to train the exam the FAA is giving now.
Flight Academy Since 2018Affiliate of Timberland HelicoptersPacific Northwest Roots
1,500+
Remote Pilots Trained
35+
Years Combined UAS Experience
1,000s
Combined Flight Hours
2018
Flight Academy Founded
New: The Flight Lab
On October 26, the FAA Changes the Test. We Built the Lab for It.
Starting October 26, 2026, the Part 107 exam pulls chart questions from live sectional charts instead of the canned figures in the testing supplement. Memorized answers stop working. Our Chart Reading Lab trains the skill the new test actually measures: reading a real chart, cold.
Regulations are now 48 percent of the exam under the current PSI blueprint, and the Lab weights your study time the way the FAA weights the test.
Built by instructors, not content farms. Every module comes from the same course that has put 1,500+ pilots through the exam.
The community stays free. Flight Lab is the premium trainer inside it, built for the exam the FAA gives now, and updated as the test evolves.
Four modes, including missions on real FAA figures. Miss a point and the Lab tells you exactly how far off you are, and which way to move. Feedback that teaches, not just grades.
Chart Symbols Explorer
37 symbols with plain explanations, FAA sources, and tap-to-locate challenges on real chart crops. Plus Symbol Sprint: 20 readings, 3 minutes, first answer counts.
Build the Airspace
A 9-step guided build of the Class A through G stack, plan view linked to the cross-section, until the shelves and floors are obvious at a glance.
Fly a Real Sectional
Missions on real FAA sectional figures, annotated the way working pilots read them: CTAF marks, surface areas, the phone number printed right on the chart.
Color-Safe Chart Reading
The Shape-First lab: grayscale missions on real figures, the Chart Vision simulator, and the printable Color Clue Card. Built for color-vision-deficient pilots, faster for every pilot.
Airspace Decoder
Airspace questions, decoded live: read the boundary, name the class, state the floor, the ceiling, and the entry rules, all from what the chart itself shows you.
Airport Operations
How airports actually run: markings, signage, traffic patterns, and the airport data blocks the exam loves, drilled until reading them is a reflex.
Radio Communications
Talk like a pilot: CTAF calls, tower phraseology, and frequency questions, practiced the way you will actually use them on frequency.
Practice Exam: 317 Questions
Four modes: a full 60-question, 2-hour test-day simulation; Quick 20 study mode; Figure Practice; and a Review Deck that resurfaces what you missed until it sticks.
Progress That Follows Your Work
Per-lab progress and mission scores, saved as you go. Find your weak topics, drill them, watch the numbers move.
Color-Safe by Design
Built for Every Pair of Eyes
Roughly 1 in 12 men has some form of color-vision deficiency, and charts are a wall of color. Flight Lab never asks color to carry the lesson. Every symbol, boundary, and airport is taught with a color-independent clue: a shape, a label, a number. The tower is the CT and the frequency, not the blue tint.
Chart Vision simulator: train in Normal, Deuteranopia, Protanopia, Tritanopia, or full Grayscale, across every lab.
Shape-First missions: 20 grayscale missions on real FAA figures, built to be solved by shapes and labels alone.
Printable Color Clue Card: every color-independent clue on one card for your kneeboard or study wall. Print it, keep it, use it on exam day prep.
If color has ever made a chart feel like a locked door, this is the trainer that hands you the other key. And if your vision is perfect, grayscale training still makes you faster: you stop hunting tints and start reading structure.
The printable Color Clue Card, straight from the Lab. One page, every clue, zero color required.
Student Portal
Your Training, Three Doors
Everything Quantum Dynamics runs through Skool and the Flight Lab. Pick your door.
The Free Academy
The Quantum Dynamics Drone Academy community on Skool: lessons, drills, exam updates, and the crew. A private community, free to join: membership is approved so the room stays pilots-only.
Classroom, cockpit, and community. Pick your lane, or run all three.
Part 107 Test Prep
Our flagship program. Two-day workshops across the Pacific Northwest and a complete online academy covering all eleven course topics, weighted to the current exam blueprint.
Hands-on stick time on the NIST obstacle course, the standard developed for DHS emergency response robot teams. Learn to fly the aircraft, not just the book.
One-week summer camps and an 18-week blended semester with Oregon charter schools. Real aviation, CTE aligned and standards crosswalked, for the next generation.
We Serve Those Who Served, and Those Who Keep the Lights On
Veterans
Veteran-owned and operated, with training that respects your service and converts it into a civilian credential.
Public Safety
Law enforcement, fire, and search and rescue teams building drone programs with trained crews and procedures that hold up.
Linemen and Utilities
Line crews and utility programs: inspection flying, vegetation work, and Part 107 crews trained for the right-of-way.
Maritime and Energy
Ship, port, and energy operators adding aerial data to inspections and surveys, led by a team with deep maritime roots.
Youth STEM
Camps and school semesters that turn curiosity into credentials, and students into the next generation of aviators.
The Team
Thousands of Hours. Zero Guesswork.
Between our instructors we count thousands of hours of UAS flight time and more than 35 years of combined unmanned experience, backed by crewed aviation, maritime, and military careers.
Sean McKay Holt, MBA
Co-Founder · Chief Pilot · Lead Instructor
U.S. Navy Craftmaster and U.S. Merchant Marine Academy graduate. A search and rescue volunteer and experienced UAS instructor pilot, Sean has personally trained more than 1,500 professionals to Part 107 certification and leads instruction across the academy.
Mark Gibson
Co-Founder
Principal owner of Timberland Helicopters and former chairman of Helicopter Association International. Mark anchors Quantum Dynamics in professional crewed aviation.
Chad Nelson
Flight Operations
Director of Operations at US Air Unmanned and an A&P mechanic, Chad has flown and managed UAS operations since 2019, training utility and first-responder pilots along the way. He leads QD flight operations.
Chirag Kode
Business Development Manager
Sales professional with over 7 years of experience driving B2B growth and enterprise solutions for global brands including Meta, Adobe, and NetApp. Chirag leads business development and strategic partnerships to scale Quantum Dynamics across commercial and institutional sectors.
Kenneth Berry
Instructor · CFI / CFII / AGI
FAA Advanced Ground Instructor (AGI), Certified Flight Instructor (CFI), and Certified Flight Instructor, Instrument (CFII). Single-engine commercial pilot (ASEL) and check airman with 1,000+ flight hours.
Our Roots
Backed by Four Decades of Working Aviation
Quantum Dynamics is the affiliate company of Timberland Helicopters of Ashland, Oregon, operating since 1984. That heritage is our standard: professional crews, certificated operations, and aircraft that work for a living.
FAA certificated for Part 133, Part 135, and Part 137 operations
Carded pilots with the U.S. Forest Service and the Department of the Interior
Pacific Power power-line patrol contract held since 1994, plus the exclusive Rocky Mountain Power contract across five states
Fire support for ODF, USFS, BLM, and Cal Fire
NASA flight test support, including the DAVINCI Venus mission and the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return recovery in September 2023
Start Free. Train With Pilots Who Do This for a Living.
The Quantum Dynamics Drone Academy on Skool is a private community, free to join: chart drills, exam change briefings like the October 26 shift, and a crew of working remote pilots. Membership is approved, so the room stays pilots-only. Come in, introduce yourself, and let’s fly.
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