How to check drone restrictions for a future date and time

A zone can be published and still not be in force. The map draws it either way, so that you can plan around it: in force at the evaluated time, it is drawn at full strength; not in force, it is faded. The outline says which kind of zone it is, and a dashed outline marks the time-limited types — NOTAM area and Temporary restricted area among them.

• Temporary zones — a NOTAM or a temporary restriction, for an event, an exercise or works, with a start and an end.
• Zones with daily hours — permanent, but in force only during the hours shown as Active daily.
• Scheduled zones — published now, starting later.

1. Click Time among the controls at the top right of the map — on a phone, open the Tools button in the bottom corner first. It reads Now until you move it.
2. Drag the slider to your flight time. It moves in 15-minute steps, up to seven days ahead, and the chosen time is shown beneath it in UTC.
3. Let go. The map re-evaluates every zone at that instant; a banner says the map is showing a chosen time, not now.
4. Click your take-off point as you would for a check now. Back to now returns the whole map to the present.

Once a time is set, the map is a single answer about that moment. The colours, the legend and the click panel’s Active now badge all describe it, and the filter becomes Active at the selected time only, which hides everything not in force then.

Times are in UTC, as aviation publishes them. Convert your local time before you choose: in summer, 14:00 in Bucharest is 11:00 UTC and 14:00 in Paris is 12:00 UTC.

The chosen time is evaluated against what the sources publish today. A NOTAM issued tomorrow for next weekend is not on the map yet, and not every national source carries NOTAMs at all — the geo-zones guide says which do not.

The map says when its data moves: in Filters, the Last sync line counts the zones added and removed by the latest update, and What changed lists them. Check again close to the day — or have a saved plan monitored until your flight time — and read the official NOTAM briefing for your flight.

A zone not in force at the chosen time is not a permission. It is what the sources publish now about that moment, and it can change before you fly.