Airspace and NOTAMs
Restrictions inside a buffer of your flight area, each with its severity, distance, bearing and a blocked flag. Mark each NOTAM accepted or ignored, and add the ones you were told about by phone.
Built for UK drone survey operations
OPERATIONSRun UK drone survey operations end to end.
Draw the flight area and one press pulls UK airspace, live NOTAMs, terrain and every hazard on the ground onto the paperwork. Then a flight clearance every job has to pass, and the logbooks and CAA audit pack built out of what you already recorded. Not retyped afterwards.
Free during beta · No credit card required
Site intelligence
Know the site before you get there.
Draw the flight area, press Refresh data on the pre-flight survey, and our geospatial service answers for that exact polygon. Six kinds of answer, written onto the paperwork together and stamped with the moment they were captured. It is the hour of copying NOTAM numbers off a website that we set out to delete.
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.
No account to link, no API key, and nothing to switch on. Site data and Met Office weather come from our own services on every plan, and they expire together under a single readiness check, so a survey cannot quietly go stale on you. What comes back, in full →
How it works
Every job runs the same three steps.
Organisation, project, flight area, job, forms, clearance, records. Learn the chain and the rest of the app stops being a menu.
- 01
Set the job up
Create the project against a client, draw the flight area with its TOAL zones on the project Spatial tab, then drag the job onto the calendar and staff its crew.
- 02
Clear it to fly
Refresh the site data onto the pre-flight survey, work the Forms rail, then record the flight clearance — every Confirm finding ticked by name, every override justified in writing.
- 03
Fly and keep the record
Upload the flight logs, import the survey and export the Ops Pack. The logbooks, currency and the CAA audit pack all build from what you already recorded.
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. Not bent to fit it afterwards.
01
Plan the flight
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
- Split an area when one launch position will not cover the site
- Multi-area overlap analysis across a project
- Export boundaries, TOAL zones and operational volume evidence as KML
02
Know the site before you get there
One Refresh on the pre-flight survey asks our own geospatial service about your flight areas. Airspace, ground hazards, terrain, site context and weather all land in the paperwork together, stamped with the moment they were captured. Nobody is copying a NOTAM number off a website.
- 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
Clear the flight
Every upcoming job is evaluated against the same 18 checks. Each comes back as Blocker, Confirm to proceed, Advisory or Met, and the worst one sets the job.
- 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
Keep the evidence
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 logbook, from the same flights
- Rolling flight currency, with a column that says why a flight does not qualify
- Controlled documents from draft to published, with read-and-understood acknowledgements
- The CAA SkyWise regulator feed, with promote-to-bulletin
- Six-step CAA audit pack wizard, plus a per-job Ops Pack archive
05
Deliver the data
Survey points come in, get resolved against the project coordinate system, and go out in the format your client actually uses.
- 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
The unglamorous half of an operation. Getting the right people and the right aircraft onto the right site on the right day, and getting paid for it afterwards.
- Day, Week, Month, Year and Agenda views, with drag-and-drop scheduling
- Read-only iCal booking feeds for clients
- Clients and contacts attached to the projects they commissioned
- Equipment, kits and batteries with recurring maintenance and return to service
- Quotes to purchase orders to invoices, against the project
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
The other half of the suite. A link across, so the roster the scheduler staffs jobs from is the one Crew already maintains, is on the plan rather than built.
In build
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
Native apps are on the way
iOS and Android are being built. We are not putting a date on them until we can hold it.
The web app is properly responsive
The same app runs in a phone or tablet browser, laid out for the screen rather than shrunk to fit it.
Install it to the home screen
Add echoMike to your home screen and it opens in its own window, without the browser chrome around it.
You need a signal on site
Be clear about this before you rely on it: there is no offline mode yet. A phone or tablet browser needs a connection to reach your jobs, and offline arrives with the native apps rather than before them.
Also in the suite
echoMike Crew
Your people, their leave, their absence and the policies they have signed, in one place. We built it to run our own company, then found every company our size wanted it.
In build · the beta list is open
Run the whole survey operation in one place.
Plan the flight, know the site, clear it properly and keep the evidence. Free during beta.