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The CAA Published the Entire Question Bank: What Four Exam Subjects Reveal About the Regulator

In 2022 Taiwan's Ministry of Transportation issued a press release titled 'Drone Licensing Overhaul! Obscure Questions Removed, Question Banks Fully Published,' putting all 1,420 questions online — 388 general, 588 professional, 324 renewal, 120 simplified renewal. The stated reason was candid: candidates said it was too hard. And the published bank became a policy document in its own right — the meteorology subject imports the manned-aviation syllabus wholesale, and flight principles lean heavily on fixed-wing aerodynamics, while most candidates fly multirotors.

Four Ways to Learn Drones in Taiwan: Universities, Licences, Competitions, and Vocational Training

Taiwan has no 'drone department.' The system's core is National Formosa University's Department of Aeronautical Engineering — a NT$90M Ministry of Education training base sited inside the Chiayi drone cluster, the only one of 18 regional bases located in an industrial park, plus a NT$50M lab with a large low-speed wind tunnel. And the 2026 Presidential Cup's three challenge topics (edge AI recognition, high-precision positioning, GNSS-denied autonomous navigation) are almost a mirror of the industry's Layer 3 gap.