The Drone App
Principles
What we hold
ourselves to.
An app that tells you where you may fly is only worth having if you can trust how it got there. These are the rules we build under — and yours to hold us to.
The authority is the source
Every zone comes from the aviation authority that published it, and carries its name. We are a reader of official data, not a second opinion about airspace.
We never invent a zone
Where an authority publishes nothing we can use, the app says so and names the gap. Monaco is one today. An empty map that looks clear is worse than one that admits what it doesn’t know.
Clear is not permission
Green means no published restriction over that ground — nothing more. The national rules still apply, and the pilot in command remains responsible for every flight. We will never word it to suggest otherwise.
Data has a date
Every country is refreshed from source nightly, and Poland hourly. Where something is a preview rather than a full feed — Italy today — we label it instead of quietly mixing it in.
Attribution is a condition, not a courtesy
Each authority sets terms for republishing its data. We meet them, name every source in full at the foot of every page, and keep licence text intact — including the ones that are inconvenient for us.
Paid for by the pilots who use it
The app is funded by its users, not by advertising. This website carries no JavaScript and no trackers at all — the privacy policy sets out what the app itself keeps.
The honest limit
What this app
can’t do for you.
It does not grant permission
No app can. Where a zone needs an authorisation, you still have to get it from the authority — the app points you at the right one and stops there.
It is only as current as the source
We refresh on a schedule. If an authority publishes a restriction after our last pull, we will not have it yet, and we would rather you knew that than assumed otherwise.
It does not replace your pre-flight check
Weather, airspace notices, your own currency and the condition of the aircraft are yours. The app narrows the question; it does not answer all of it.
Hold us to it.
Found a zone that looks wrong? Tell us which one and where. Corrections from pilots on the ground are the fastest way we find a bad feed.
We answer every message — including the ones telling us we got it wrong.