1. Verify Location & Airspace

Confirm your site, obstructions, and airspace classification before every flight.

Survey the site, check terrain, structures, towers, and plan launch and emergency landing areas.

Sectional charts for airspace boundaries, nearby airports, and altitude ceilings.

Airspace advisories, LAANC authorization, and flight planning for your location.

Open Aloft

Official maximum altitudes for LAANC authorizations around controlled airspace.

2. FAA Weather Resources

Check current and forecast conditions, NOTAMs, and TFRs for the entire mission area.

Official FAA flight service weather briefings, NOTAMs, and TFRs. Phone: 1-800-992-7433.

METARs, TAFs, winds aloft, radar, and satellite from NOAA.

Open AWC

Current observations and terminal forecasts for the airport nearest your site.

Search active Notices to Air Missions by location or airport.

Temporary Flight Restrictions currently in effect.

View TFRs

Live camera views for visibility and cloud conditions in remote and mountain areas.

Reminder: Part 107.51 requires 3 statute miles of visibility, 500 ft below clouds, and 2,000 ft horizontally from clouds.

Open or download our risk assessment, checklists, and a sample state SOP.