How to plan a drone flight area and check it against restrictions

1. If you fly later, first set the map to that time with Time, so the check is made for your flight rather than for now — see checking restrictions for a future date.
2. Click Draw flight plan among the controls at the top right (on a phone, inside Tools). Drawing starts straight away with an area.
3. Click each corner of the area, then click the first point again to close it. For a route, switch to the line tool in the small toolbar and click the last point again to finish.
4. The save panel opens with the conflict check already running. Read it (below), then enter a Flight plan name and, if you like, the Maximum altitude above ground (m).
5. Click Save. The plan is kept in your profile, under Flights.

• The effect of each zone met — from Prohibited to Information only — as its source publishes it.
• Whether it is in force at the evaluated time: now, or the time you chose on the map.
• How much of your area it covers, as a share and an area. Clipping a corner and sitting entirely inside a zone are different facts. A route has no area, so this line is left out for routes.
• Which source says so, so you know whose rules and whose authorization apply.

The check compares the shapes on the ground. A zone that starts above your maximum altitude is still listed — click it on the map and compare its Vertical limits with your flight.

The check lists what your shape meets and what each source says about it. It is not a permission or a refusal, and it never stops you saving.

Draw an area for work that covers ground — a survey, a roof inspection, filming over a site. Draw a route for a line you follow — a power line, a pipeline, a stretch of coast. For an operation around one take-off point, pick the circle tool in the small toolbar, click the centre and then the edge — or use Enter coordinates to type the centre — and set the size with Radius or by dragging the handles on the map. To give a route a width, tick Widen this route into a corridor in the save panel and set the width either side. A circle or corridor is saved as a many-sided polygon that contains the whole shape, and its centre and radius, or route and width, are kept for the coordinate export. Every shape is checked, saved and exported the same way; only a plain route has no covered-area figure.

• In Flights on your profile, each plan can be opened with View, renamed, re-checked with Check conflicts as the data changes, shared or deleted.
• The plan’s own page gives its coordinates in decimal or DMS and as GeoJSON, CSV or KML files — see exporting flight coordinates.
• On the same page, Monitor this plan re-checks it until your flight time and alerts you if anything changes — see airspace change alerts.
• For a specific-category operation, Screen against a PDRA in the save panel compares it with the EASA PDRAs; Full screener opens the complete screener with the area and your answers already filled in.