DroneTools

The drone weather app for UAV and FPV pilots: DroneTools checks the current wind, gusts, rain, Kp index and daylight at your location and shows the flight conditions as a clear traffic light. One look and you know whether you can fly. Made for drone pilots in hobby, photography, film, surveying, inspection and emergency services. FLIGHT CONDITIONS AT A GLANCE • Optimal, Limited or Critical for every value and as an overall status • Warning symbols show instantly what's off • Missing or outdated weather data is never shown as green • Updates automatically and reloads as soon as the network is back ALL KEY DRONE WEATHER DATA • Wind speed at 10 m and 120 m altitude, wind gusts • Chance of rain and rain rate (rain, snow), visibility, low clouds, temperature • Kp index (geomagnetic activity) for GPS accuracy • Daylight: next sunrise and sunset, day and night per EU air law, calculated on device and available offline YOUR DRONE, YOUR LIMITS • Set your own wind and weather limits with sliders • Drone profiles for every quadcopter or multicopter, share and import them as a file • Three templates to get started: Cautious, Wind-Resistant Drone and Waterproof Drone • Switch off the critical level or single values, e.g. warn waterproof drones only in heavy rain • Wind in m/s, km/h, kn or mph; °C or °F; km and mm/h or mi and in/h; 12 or 24 hours FOR ORGANIZATIONS • Set limits centrally via MDM, managed values are locked in the app FOR IPHONE, IPAD AND MAC • Large tiles on iPad and Mac, keyboard shortcuts ⌘R and ⌘, • Dark mode, large text and VoiceOver Data sources: Open-Meteo and GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences (CC BY 4.0). Your location is only used, rounded, for the weather request and is not stored by the app. DroneTools is made by CopterTec, the team behind FireDock, the drone solution for fire brigades and emergency services.