Drone Pilot & FPV Hats

The FAA's Part 107 rules for flying a drone commercially took effect on August 29, 2016. By December 2025 more than 493,000 remote pilot certifications had been issued, up more than 70,000 in a single year, according to Commercial UAV News. Every one of them operates below 400 feet. Hobby flyers and FPV racers share that sky, and the same sounds. Pilots on the Phantom Pilots forum describe the controller announcing that the aircraft will land in 10 seconds while the drone hangs over a big pine tree, and a return-to-home routine that can send a drone straight up into a tree when the home point was set wrong. These drone pilot hats speak in that in-group voice: the low battery warning with the drone returning home, the Part 107 remote pilot certificate called by its own title, the $1,000 drone flown into trees for fun, the 400-foot limit, and the crash renamed an unscheduled landing. Drone pilot and FPV pilot are phrases people type into search, so both appear as plain badges. An antisocial pilot shirt already sells "Talk to me after I land." This page is distinct from AvGeek & Plane Spotter Hats, which is about watching planes, from Funny Pilot Hats, which covers real aircraft, and from Funny Photographer Hats. Here the aircraft is a drone. Every design is custom embroidered on an unstructured dad hat. Wear one to the field, or give one to the pilot who owns three batteries and one tree.