File a drone flight

Draw your survey area and fill in the flight. You get the exact values for the File2Fly flight plan, the FUA airspace request and the NOTAM, with the reason for each, plus the CAA flight plan form (CA 172-04) as a PDF. You check everything and submit it yourself. Signed out, nothing you type here leaves your browser. Signed in, your company's pilots and aircraft fill the form for you and each filing is kept in the company's record.

1. Survey area

Tap the map to place the corners (3 or more), or paste coordinates.

2. The flight

Operator details are remembered in this browser for next time.

Your company on Flight Assist? Sign in and its pilots and aircraft fill this in.

Company / ROC holder

Company name Contact person (ROC)

Aircraft & operation

Registration (REG/) Call sign / aircraft ID Operator (OPR/) Pilot in command Kind of operation Height AGL (ft) Speed (knots, optional) Flights (F:, optional) Aircraft colour ATNS reference (REFID, optional) Site name (optional)

Times enter SA time; the filing is converted to UTC

Date of flight Take-off time (SA time) Time airborne, EET (HHMM) Endurance (HHMM)

Name places, never people: on a search, keep the missing person's name and description out of every field here.

Give the take-off time in South African time: the flight plan files it in UTC (SA time minus 2 hours), and a flight before 02:00 is filed on the previous day's date. EET and endurance are durations, HHMM. Endurance is the battery time available and must be at least the EET.

FUA airspace reservation

Type of operation Operation start (SA time) Operation end (SA time)

Contact FUA and NOTAM

Phone Email

3. Check and file

File2Fly form

Why these values

The co-pilot's reasoning for each value. Read it before you file.

File it

Each opens in a new tab. Copy the values from above, check every field, then submit yourself.

Flight plan: File2Fly ↗ FUA: ATNS ↗ NOTAM: ATNS ↗

Paper form

The CAA's own fillable form, filled in from the values above. You can still edit it in a PDF reader before you send it. Want auto-fill on the ATNS sites? The Flight Assist Tracker app fills them for you: get the app.