Drone Preflight by Code Red

Code-Red

About this app

Plan a drone flight in the UK the way you already do it, in one place: pick a spot on the map, check what applies there, find a weather window, run your checklist and log the flight.

• No ads and no tracking
• Works offline once you have what you need: spots, aircraft, checklists and your logbook live on your phone
• Free, with no limits on spots, aircraft or flights

THE MAP IS YOUR DESK
• A dark map built for planning, with your saved spots, search and your location
• UK drone zones and airspace drawn on the map, updated every AIRAC cycle: flight restriction zones, prohibited, restricted and danger areas, controlled airspace
• Tap anywhere for a quick summary: zones, NOTAMs, wind and daylight there
• Download a 10 × 10 km base map for places with no signal
• Find nearby open spaces and flying clubs from OpenStreetMap, as leads to check, never as permission

A SITE BRIEF THAT LEADS WITH THE ANSWER
• One line first: which zones apply, what was checked and what data is missing here
• Restrictions, NOTAMs, landowner access, weather and daylight, kept apart
• NOTAMs read on your phone from the public NATS bulletin, with the time they were fetched
• Zones built from official UK AIS data (NATS), with the cycle date shown; they keep working offline
• Royal Parks and National Trust land shown as ground to check before you fly

WEATHER WINDOWS
• Wind at flying height, gusts, rain and visibility against limits you set per aircraft
• Today, tomorrow and golden hour, ranked by the best complete window
• Sunrise, sunset and golden hour for the spot
• Geomagnetic activity (Kp) labelled the way NOAA does
• Wind in mph, m/s, km/h or knots

FLIGHT CARDS AND CHECKLISTS
• Make a flight card for a spot and time: aircraft, window, checklist and the restrictions it was made under
• Your own checklists, ticked off on the day
• Take off and land from the card; the times go straight into the log
• Survey a site: take-off point, hazards and notes, saved as you go

LOGBOOK
• Every flight with aircraft, spot, duration and conditions
• Totals overall, per aircraft and at night, with an hours goal if you want one
• Add flights by hand, edit or delete them
• Export as CSV for your own records
• Aircraft and batteries with labels and cycle counts, and your CAA Flyer and Operator IDs

COMMUNITY AREAS
• Draw your own areas with private notes
• Share one with other pilots if you choose: signing in is needed only to share
• Report an area, or hide a pilot's areas on your phone
• Shared notes are other pilots' views, never permission

HOME-SCREEN WIDGETS
• Flying conditions at your favourite site, and a saved site with its checklist one tap away

YOU ARE THE PILOT
Preflight organises your checks and shows its sources. It is not permission to fly and not a clearance: zone data, NOTAMs and weather can be out of date or incomplete, and the decision to fly, and the responsibility for it, stay with you. Check the Drone and Model Aircraft Code and the official sources before every flight.

PRIVATE BY DESIGN
• Your spots, aircraft and flights stay on your phone and in your own device backup
• NOTAMs come straight from NATS to your phone; zone updates carry no personal data; weather and map tiles are fetched only for the places you look at
• No analytics and no tracking

What’s new

Plan a UK drone flight in one place.
• A planning map with saved spots and offline base map regions
• UK drone zones and airspace on the map, from official NATS data
• A site brief that leads with the answer: zones, NOTAMs, access, weather
• Weather windows against your own limits, wind at flying height
• Flight cards, checklists, take off and land in one tap
• A logbook with totals, batteries and CSV export
No ads, no tracking. Not permission to fly: you stay the pilot.