Features

One flight,
start to finish.

Open the map, touch the ground, read the answer. Then plan it, get it opened if it needs opening, and fly. Four acts — tap any line to see its screen.

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The Drone App on iPhone: Mont-Saint-Michel in 3D, a red zone draped over the rock, three zones in view, and the prompt to touch and hold anywhere to check restrictions.

ACT ONE

You open the app.

Act one has three screens. Choose one to show it on the phone.

01 See the answer, not the airspace. Touch and hold anywhere. There are 232 zones in view around Royan; you get one line back — Temporarily restricted — and the two restrictions that decided it. 02 Read the words that decide it. Under the verdict, the authority’s own text: a 100 m ceiling from IGN and the DGAC under Licence Ouverte, a temporary zone from the SIA’s SUP AIP bulletin — page 40, one tap away. Named, credited, quoted, never paraphrased. 03 Active now, or not yet. A temporary zone carries its clock. This ring around Forges-les-Eaux is a ZRT, read from the bulletin with its window attached: active until a stated hour, and no longer counted once that hour has passed.

One rule under all of it: no data never reads as clear. Where we hold nothing for a place, the map says No flight until we do.

Three screens of The Drone App on iPhone: the map around Royan with a purple temporary zone and the sheet reading “Temporarily restricted — 2 overlapping restrictions”; the full sheet quoting a 100 m AGL ceiling from IGN/DGAC and the ZRT CESA SOULAC bulletin from the SIA; and the ring of ZRT Forges-les-Eaux with “1 temporary restriction applies”.

ACT TWO

You plan.

Act two has four screens. Choose one to show it on the phone.

04 Tell it which drone. Add what you fly. The app knows the model — an Avata 2 is 377 g, a Neo 2 is 151 g, a Mavic 4 Pro is 1,063 g — and with the weight comes the class. Registration numbers stay on the phone. 05 The map re-reads itself for that aircraft. Pick one from the map. A rule that binds A3 and not A1 falls quiet for the 151 g Neo and stays loud for the Mavic — shown and greyed, never hidden. 06 Wind at 120 m, before you climb to it. Forecast for the spot on the map, not the nearest city: wind and gusts now, the wind at your ceiling, the next hours arrow by arrow, sunset, visibility, rain. From it, the number pilots ask for — how far out, and still home — with a 20% reserve never planned into. 07 Save it as a plan. It lands in your calendar. A plan is a place, a window and an aircraft. It writes itself into Calendar, and on the list it keeps its own answer, checked for that drone’s weight: Capri, in progress and clear; Vienna, not yet flown, already red.

Four screens of The Drone App on iPhone: My Drones listing a DJI Avata 2 at 377 g, a Neo 2 at 151 g and a Mavic 4 Pro at 1063 g, with the note that registration numbers stay on this device; the map over Paris with the drone picker open — Mavic 4 Pro A3, Neo 2 A1, Avata 2 A3, All drones; the weather card for Santa Cruz de Tenerife — 22°, wind 16 km/h, gusts 42 km/h, 24 km/h at 120 m, hourly wind, sunset, visibility, precipitation, credited to Open-Meteo; and My Plans with Capri in progress and green, Vienna upcoming and red.

ACT THREE

You need it opened.

clifden-2026-09-14.zip 4 files

Cover letterthe flight, the aircraft, the zone, the window
Operator registrationvalid to Mar 2027
A2 certificatevalid to Jan 2028
Insurancevalid to Dec 2026

To Irish Aviation Authority drones@iaa.ie · from EASA’s directory

Some ground is flyable only if someone says so. The app gets you to the right desk with the right paperwork — and stops there.

08

The zone carries its contact

Where the authority publishes one, the number to call sits on the rule that says to call it — not three menus away in a PDF.

09

The dossier assembles itself

A zip with a cover letter naming the flight, the aircraft and the zone, plus exactly the documents that authority asks for, with the address of the body to send it to, from EASA’s own directory.

10

Your documents, and their expiry

Operator registration, A1/A3, A2, LUC, insurance and ID — held in your own iCloud Drive, barcode readable on screen, with a reminder before each one lapses.

11

Where the answer is “we don’t know”

For six of thirty EASA states there is no published route. The app says unknown rather than inventing an address — a first-class answer, not a gap.

ACT FOUR

You fly.

Act four has two screens. Choose one to show it on the phone.

12 Where you stand, which way you face. On site, the compass takes over the map: heading to the degree, your position to the second of arc, your elevation. The numbers an authority’s form asks for, read off where you stand. 13 The ground as it actually stands. Tilt into 3D before you go: the aqueduct, the gorge, the tree line, with the zone draped over all of it — so what you might hit and what you may not cross sit in one picture.

The Drone App on Apple Watch: the compass rose over the map

On your wrist. The watch carries the map and the compass, so the phone can stay with the controller.

Hazards that are not rules. Hospital helipads and the like are marked as hazards — real risks that carry no legal restriction, and are never dressed up as one.

Plans stay on your device. Flight plans are stored on the phone and never leave it. Not a marketing line: there is simply no server-side store for them.

Two screens of The Drone App on iPhone: the compass over the map of Paris reading 62° NE, 48°49′21″ N 2°17′20″ E, 67 m; and the Pont du Gard in 3D with a yellow zone draped over the gorge, four zones in view.

Being built now

What’s next, and why.

The app is in beta, and you should see what you’re signing up to — not just what already works.

See where it works

01

The launch wave

The European Economic Area, the UK, Australia, Canada and the United States — each from its own authority’s source.

02

A professional tier

For operators flying under authorisation, where the conditions matter more than the colours.

Try all of it, free.

The beta is open, with fourteen countries live and the launch wave on the way. It stays free for as long as the beta runs.

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One flight,start to finish.