Airspace and NOTAMs
Restrictions near your flight area, with severity, distance and bearing. Accept or ignore each one. Add any you were told about by radio or phone.
Drone Survey Management
OPERATIONSRun UK drone survey operations end to end.
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Free during beta · No credit card required
Site intelligence
Know the site before leaving the office.
Automatic site intelligence, keeping you informed of everything near your area of operations.
What is underneath you
Schools, built-up areas, hospitals and GPs, care homes, venues, roads, railway, power, water, obstacles and footpaths, returned as proximity hits rather than a map you have to read yourself.
Emergency cover
The nearest hospital, police station and fire station, and every active aerodrome within range, nearest first, with distance and true bearing.
Terrain
Elevation, slope and aspect at the site, plus an elevation profile along any line you draw across it.
Site context
Rural-urban classification, population figures, and the ground-cover composition of the area by percentage.
Weather
A Met Office seven-day outlook and an hourly flight window drawn against the lowest wind limit of the drones assigned to the job. Radar, satellite and a Kp index gauge alongside it.
One press, one record. Airspace, ground, terrain and weather all land together, so the survey is signed against the same picture the whole crew saw. See what comes back →
How it works
Simple and repeatable
Projects, jobs, forms, flight clearance, and records.
- 01
Set up
Create the project, draw or import the flight area with its TOAL zones in our spatial workspace, then drag the job onto the calendar and staff its crew.
- 02
Flight clearance
Best-in-class site intelligence, one press of a button and you know exactly what risks surround your job and what to do about them.
- 03
Record keeping
Upload flight logs, import the survey and export the Ops Pack. Logbooks, flight currency and CAA audit packs all build automatically.
What it does
Plan it, fly it, prove it.
Operations is written against the UK regulatory picture. PDRA-01, CAP2606, the CAA Operational Authorisation, NATS airspace and Ordnance Survey terrain.
01
Planning
A flight area is the polygon you may operate in, plus its take-off and landing zones and its operational parameters. It lives on the project, so every job on that site can borrow it.
- Draw a polygon, buffer a line, or upload a KML boundary
- TOAL zones and the operational volume computed from your parameters
- Automatic area splitting based on your legal requirements
- Multi-area overlap analysis across a project
- Export boundaries, TOAL zones and operational volume evidence as KML
02
Site Intelligence
Our geospatial services provides state-of-the-art site intelligence, keeping you as informed as possible.
- UK NOTAMs and airspace restrictions, each with severity, distance and bearing
- Schools, built-up areas, hospitals, care homes, venues, railways, power lines, water and obstacles
- Nearest hospital, police station and fire station, plus active aerodromes nearest first
- Terrain elevation, slope and aspect, and an elevation profile along a line
- Rural-urban classification, population figures and ground-cover composition
- Met Office seven-day outlook and an hourly flight window against your aircraft wind limit
03
Site Safety
Every job is checked against CAA requirements before it flies.
- Pre-Flight Survey, RAMS, On-Site Planning to CAP2606 Annex 2, Briefing and Debrief
- Clearance recorded with every Confirm finding ticked by name
- Written justification required for any override
- Recording a clearance and authorising an override are separate permissions
- A findings register across every upcoming job
04
Operational Records
Flights, currency, controlled documents and regulator alerts land in one place, and the CAA audit pack is built from those same records rather than reassembled by hand.
- Pilot flight logbook and per-airframe technical logbooks
- Rolling flight currency
- Controlled documents from draft to published, with read-and-understood acknowledgements
- The CAA SkyWise regulator feed built in
- Six-step CAA audit pack wizard, plus a per-job Ops Pack archive
05
Deliver your data
Import your job data from multiple sources. Analyse it, and deliver it to your clients.
- Import Trimble JobXML, CSV and TXT, merging several files into one survey
- Pull JXL straight from a linked Trimble Connect project
- Per-file CRS resolution, and RTK baselines drawn from the base rows in the file
- Orthophoto overlays and site calibration imported from a JXL
- Export as CSV, the Propeller two-file split, or the source files as a ZIP
06
Run the business
Get the right people and aircraft onto the site.
- Day, Week, Month, Year and Agenda views, with drag-and-drop scheduling
- Read-only iCal booking feeds for your clients
- Clients and contacts attached to the projects they commissioned
- Equipment, kits and batteries with recurring maintenance and return to service
- Quotes, purchase orders, and invoices.
Integrations
Connect the accounts you already have.
Operations sits alongside the survey stack your team already relies on. No rip and replace.
DJI
Flight logs
Upload DJI flight logs against a job, or pull them from a linked account, and review the flown track, telemetry evidence and battery charts.
Pro and aboveTrimble Connect
Survey data
Pull JobXML surveys straight from a linked Trimble Connect project, with their control points and coordinate systems.
BusinessABAX
Vehicle tracking
Live vehicle tracking, trip history and automatic mileage for your survey fleet.
BusinessechoMike Crew
People and leave
Our HR app: employee records, leave, absence, policies. The link to Operations is in progress.
Closed Alpha
Each one is an account you link yourself, in Settings, and the plan it needs is on the row. None of them is required: projects, jobs, flight areas, forms, clearance, survey import, equipment and billing all work on their own. See the roadmap →
Mobile
iOS app is live!
Android is currently being built.
Mobile friendly design
Work from anywhere, on any device.
Mobile companion
While our mobile apps do not have all the features of our web app, it is designed to be a lightweight companion to your work while on-site.
Offline mode
Our mobile apps work offline, so you can fill out forms, check your jobs, and read notifications even when you are in the sticks.
Check this out
echoMike Crew
Our new HR management tool. Currently in Closed Alpha.
Closed Alpha · apply to join
Run the whole survey operation in one place.
Plan the flight, know the site, clear it properly and keep the evidence. Free during beta.