Vantage: Drone Flight Planner
Airspace, ground, weather, sun
Free · In-App Purchases
Tap the map for one verdict - fly, wait, or don't fly - across live UK airspace, wind at altitude, ground rules, and your drone's limits. 14-day free trial.
Tap a spot on the map. Get one definitive answer: fly, wait, or don't fly.
Vantage is a precision flight clearance tool for drone pilots. It synthesizes airspace restrictions, ground rules, local weather, and your specific drone's hardware limits into a single clear verdict, telling you exactly which factor is blocking your flight.
ACTIVE-NOW AIRSPACE
Most UK airspace apps show you where the zones are. Vantage shows you whether they are active right now. Vantage parses FRZs, Danger Areas, advisory zones, and NOTAMs so you know exactly what is live - including when a scheduled zone has been cancelled, or a normally-quiet zone is temporarily activated. Aerial activity NOTAMs (gliders, airshows, parachuting) surface as their own yellow tier. Future-dated NOTAMs render as upcoming amber zones, allowing you to plan ahead safely. Airspace data refreshes in the background, so your cached map stays up-to-date even when standing in a field with zero cell signal.
GROUND RULES
Airspace isn't the only thing that grounds a flight. Vantage also checks the ground itself - National Trust land, forestry permits, SSSI / ASSI protected-area advisories, and other landowner restrictions are overlaid on the map and folded into the verdict with severity-aware copy.
WIND AT FLIGHT ALTITUDE
Ground-level weather apps show you wind where you're standing. Vantage calculates wind where your drone flies. It extrapolates wind speeds at 100, 200, 300, and 400 ft using the meteorological power-law profile, so you know the true conditions before takeoff.
DRONE-SPECIFIC LIMITS
A DJI Mavic 3 Pro handles winds that would ground a Mini 4 Pro. Select your model, and Vantage automatically compares live conditions against its manufacturer-rated wind and gust ceilings, with a conservative safety margin built in to every flight verdict.
7-DAY FLYABILITY STRIP
Scan the week at a glance. Each day features morning, midday, and evening flyability bars personalized to your drone's limits. Use the time scrubber to jump the map and verdict to any exact hour in the next 7 days.
PRECISION WEATHER & LIGHT
Vantage sources precision data from Apple WeatherKit, differentiating between live radar (precipitation intensity) and hourly forecasts (probability). Integrated sun tracking highlights golden hour and blue hour in your target location's timezone for optimal aerial photography.
PLACES & SAVED LOCATIONS
Search for your next flying spot by name, or tap the map directly. Save your regular locations so every favorite flying spot is one tap away. Each saved spot carries a map snapshot thumbnail for at-a-glance recognition.
SUPPORTED DRONES
• DJI: Mini, Air, Mavic, Avata, Phantom, and Lito series
• Autel: EVO series
• Skydio
• Custom: Enter your own maximum wind resistance
PRIVACY BY DESIGN
No accounts, no sign-ins, no ads, and no location tracking. Vantage is a paid field tool, not a data broker.
FREE & VANTAGE PRO
Vantage is free to download. The free tier includes the complete offline UK airspace map, active zone details, the ground rules surface overlay, and tap-anywhere restriction info.
Upgrade to Vantage Pro to unlock the complete flight picture:
• Synthesized fly/no-fly verdicts
• Wind at flight altitude calculations
• Space weather (Kp) alerts for GPS and compass interference
• 7-day flyability strip and time scrubber
• Golden hour, blue hour, and moon phase tracking
• Saved locations and places search
SUBSCRIPTIONS & PRICING
Vantage Pro offers monthly and annual subscriptions. Annual plans save over 65% vs monthly and include a 14-day free trial. Founding Members lock in introductory pricing for as long as their subscription stays active.
Airspace zones with an approximate boundary now draw with a dashed edge, so you can tell an estimated zone from a surveyed one at a glance.
- The dashed zones carry a clearer label - "Actual area is within this boundary" for fallback circles, "Transit route - width is approximate" for transit corridors
- Ground rules wording now reflects that landowner byelaws (National Trust, Forestry England, Natural Resources Wales) cover taking off and landing from the land, not flying over it
- Fixed: the app no longer crashes when iOS wakes it to refresh airspace data in the background
The developer, Chun Hin Tang, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Purchases
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Provider
- Chun Hin Tang
- Size
- 26.8 MB
- Category
- Navigation
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 18.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 18.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
13+
- 13+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Vantage Annual - Founding Member £29.99
- Vantage Monthly £9.99
- Vantage Annual £39.99
- Vantage Monthly £9.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Chun Hin Tang
