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Drone Zones UK

Where you can fly your drone in the UK, and waypoint missions for DJI drones.

Coming soon to Google Play

Drone Zones UK puts the official NATS UAS flight restriction zones (airport FRZs, prisons, military and security sites, restricted and danger areas) and current NOTAMs on a map, and tells you whether a spot is clear, needs care, or needs permission. It also plans waypoint missions for DJI drones, checks the airspace over the whole flight, and sends the mission to your controller.

Check where you can fly

Restriction zones, NOTAMs, nature sites, aviation hazards and flying weather for any spot, up to six days ahead.

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Plan waypoint missions

Map an area, circle a subject or fly your own route with a DJI drone, with the airspace checked, sent to the controller by cable.

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Check where you can fly

  • Always up to date

    Restriction zones update every 28-day AIRAC cycle; NOTAMs at least hourly.

  • Check any spot

    Tap the map, search a place or postcode, or use your location.

  • Plan ahead

    Any date and time up to six days ahead, with NOTAM daily schedules taken into account.

  • Ground height

    For each spot, so zones measured from sea level get a definite answer.

  • Works without signal

    Map and satellite views; areas you've viewed still show offline.

  • Nature sites

    SSSIs, and ASSIs in Northern Ireland, with links to their official pages.

  • Low-level aviation

    Airfields, gliding and parachuting sites, hospital helipads, small arms ranges and other low-level hazards.

  • Flying weather

    Wind and gusts (including at 400 ft), rain, visibility and daylight for the spot and time.

  • Saved spots

    Keep your regular flying spots to hand.

  • Straight answers

    Says plainly when it can't check: outside the UK, or when the data is missing or out of date.

Plan waypoint missions

  • Map an area

    Draw the area, or a quick rectangle, for back-and-forth photo lines with the overlap a map or 3D model needs, spaced for your drone's camera and height and allowing for rising ground.

  • Circle a subject

    Photos all round a building, tree or structure, the drone facing it and the camera aimed at it, for a 3D model or an orbit video.

  • Custom route

    Tap your own waypoints one by one, much like DJI Fly's waypoint mode, and set the height, speed, camera angle, heading and a photo or video action at each.

  • Photo or video

    Photos at every waypoint, timed photos, or video.

  • Big areas, split up

    Parts of up to 100 waypoints, so the controller stays responsive, each shown on the map in its own colour, with a warning if a part needs more than one battery.

  • Airspace checked

    Restriction zones, NOTAMs, nature sites and aviation hazards over the whole mission before you send it.

  • Straight to the controller

    By USB cable from your phone to a DJI controller with a screen, no computer needed; or share the mission files.

  • Open other missions

    DJI waypoint missions made in other apps: see them on the map, check the airspace, change single waypoints and send them on.

  • Saved missions

    Save missions to fly again.

  • Works with

    DJI drones that fly waypoint missions in DJI Fly. Tested with the DJI Mini 5 Pro and DJI RC 2; more are being tested (see the roadmap).

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Before you fly. Drone Zones UK is a planning aid, not an official briefing, and isn't endorsed by NATS, the CAA or DJI. Check the UK AIP and NATS pre-flight information, follow the Drone Code, and get the landowner's permission. Waypoint missions fly by themselves: keep the drone in sight and be ready to take over.

Roadmap

What's being worked on, and roughly when. Drone Zones UK is made by one person, so the dates are loose and some things depend on outside data or equipment.

  • Ready
  • In testing
  • Planned
  • Exploring: depends on outside data

Apps

  1. NowAndroidLaunching on Google Play.In testing
  2. Winter 2026–27WindowsThe app on Windows PCs, including sending missions to a DJI controller by cable.Planned
  3. Spring 2027iPhone and iPadZone checks and waypoint missions. Missions are shared as files, as iPhones can't send them to a controller by cable.Planned

Airspace data

  1. NowUnited KingdomNATS restriction zones and NOTAMs, protected nature sites and low-level aviation hazards.Ready
  2. Summer 2027United StatesFAA drone facility maps, national security flight restrictions and temporary flight restrictions.Planned
  3. Later in 2027CanadaDepends on getting NAV CANADA's airspace data in a form the app can use.Exploring

Waypoint missions

  1. NowAreas, orbits and custom routesPhoto missions for maps and 3D models, and your own routes, airspace checked, sent to a DJI RC 2 by cable.In testing
  2. Winter 2026–27Camera setup guideStep-by-step help setting the camera for mapping, which a mission file can't do.Planned

Drones and controllers

  1. NowDJI Mini 5 Pro and RC 2Missions tested end to end.Tested
  2. Winter to springMore drones and controllersChecking missions with the DJI RC and RC Pro, and the Mini 4 Pro, Air 3 and 3S, Mavic 3 and Mavic 4 Pro, with help from pilots who own them.Planned

Dates are targets, not promises, and may move. New regions depend on each country's official data being available to use. Have one of the drones or controllers above, or an idea? Get in touch.

Ideas, problems and support

Drone Zones UK is made by one person, and every message gets read.

Suggest a featureSomething the app could do, or do better. Report a problemSomething wrong, confusing or broken. General enquiryAnything else about the app. ☕ Buy me a coffeeIf the app helped you fly safely.