ENAIRE, Spain’s national air navigation service provider, has launched a video tutorial which is designed to make it easier for users to plan drone flights.
The video explains how to plan flights with ENAIRE through the ENAIRE Planea app, the provider’s official application for managing requests for aerial work, experimental flights and special activities for manned aviation, drones and other airspace uses, including new high-altitude operations (HAO).
The video also details how to specify the characteristics of the flight operation or air activity in question, both with manned aircraft and drones, experimental rocket launches, stratospheric balloons, and activities such as aerial sports, fireworks shows, lanterns and advertising balloons; the length of time and the airspace volume requested.
In addition, the ENAIRE Drones tool, available since 2018, provides drone pilots with the information they need to safely plan their flights. ENAIRE Drones has had over 7 million visits in its history, receiving nearly 200,000 monthly consultations in six years. Users of ENAIRE Drones can check geographic areas for drones by filtering these areas by flight level.
In 2024, through July, ENAIRE coordinated some 6,500 individual drone operations. May was the busiest month in ENAIRE’s entire history, with 1,300 drone operations managed. In Spain as a whole, it is estimated that about 34,500 drone operations have taken place. ENAIRE says around 28,000 administrative interactions have been avoided in 2024.
Spain’s Council of Ministers approved a new regulation in June 2024 to boost the drone sector in the country, designating ENAIRE as the entity responsible for making available, in a common digital format, information on the geographical areas for drones identified in sovereign Spanish territory and airspace.
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