No Fly Zones for Drones in Estonia

Your ref: 10.08.2017 Our ref: 25.08.2017 No 4.13-1/17/4235-2 Dear Stephan van Vuren, Thank you for your email! www.lennuluba.ee is an unofficial website created by by one Estonian drone pilot and Estonian CAA does not take any liability. All the coordinates for the areas drawn there can be found from the AIP Estonia. Short summary of current Estonian drone regulations: UA shall be operated in accordance with the following national requirements:  Aviation Act (English version),  Regulation of the Government of the Republic No 240 (only Estonian version available),  Regulation of the Minister of Economic Affairs and Infrastructure No 24 (only Estonian version available),  Regulation of the Government of the Republic No 189 (only Estonian version available),  General Precept of Director General of the Estonian Civil Aviation Administration No 4.1-7/15/33 of 9 June 2015 (only Estonian version available). In addition, UA operator must acquaint himself/herself with the information in currently valid Estonian AIP, its Supplements and NOTAMs. A special permit from the Estonian CAA is mandatory when operating UA in the following areas:  controlled airspace (map attached),  flight information zones (map attached),  restricted areas (map attached),  anywhere in the Estonian airspace higher than 500 ft / 150 m AGL. When flying your UA outside of the above-mentioned areas, then no permit is needed. Of course, the UA operator must not endanger third parties when conducting his/her operations. In order to get the special permit, an application containing the following information about the UA operator or enterprise shall be submitted to the Estonian CAA:  legal name (in case of an enterprise),  business registry code (if applicable),  address,  phone number,  email address,  names and personal identification numbers of the RPA pilots. The application for a special permit must be signed by the person who has right of representation of the enterprise. According to the Aviation Act §51 (5) and State Fees Act § 168, a state fee 45 euros must be paid for the review of an application for a special permit obtained from the Estonian CAA. State fees for Estonian CAA acts shall be paid as follows: Beneficiary customer: Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Estonia Beneficiary address: Endla 13, Tallinn 10122 ESTONIA Reference no: 2900073106 Details of payment: (for example: special permit for RPA operations) Beneficiary's bank / account: SEB: IBAN EE89 1010 2200 3479 6011, BIC / SWIFT: EEUHEE2X Swedbank: IBAN EE93 2200 2210 2377 8606, BIC / SWIFT: HABAEE2X Danske Bank: IBAN EE40 3300 3334 1611 0002, BIC / SWIFT: FOREEE2X Nordea: IBAN EE70 1700 0170 0157 7198, BIC / SWIFT: NDEAEE2X Estonian CAA issues the special permit for UA operators with a validity of one year. Furthermore, all particular UA flights in the areas where a special permit is required must be coordinated with Estonian CAA so as to inform in advance appropriate air traffic services units. Consequently, there are two procedures: 1) issue of a special permit, 2) coordination with the CAA. For coordination, another application shall be submitted with the following information:  place of operations (e.g centre coordinates with radius) with map attached,  purpose of the flight,  maximum height above ground level,  time of operations,  back-up plan in case of loss of control,  phone number from which the RPA operator can be promptly reached,  contact details of the applicant. For the coordination application you may use unofficial websites like www.lennuluba.ee or www.drooniluba.ee. Best regards, Karl Rattassep Senior Inspector of Flight Operations Department +372 610 3571 www.ecaa.ee | Lõõtsa street 5, 11415 Tallinn Estonian Civil Aviation Administration From: Stephan van Vuren [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2017 5:32 PM To: Lennuamet <[email protected]> Cc: Noreply Lennuamet <[email protected]> Subject: No Fly Zones for Drones in Estonia Dear Sir/Madam, Today I visited the website of the Estonian Civil Aviation Administration looking for information about regulations and airspace restrictions for drones in Estonia. There I was redirected to the map with No-drone-zones at www.lennuluba.ee and found the information I was looking for. Our goal at AirHub is to make flying with drones safer. That is why we have developed the AirHub platform for dronepilots. Our first product based on the AirHub platform was a free application for recreational dronepilots in The Netherlands. We have developed this application together with ASR, one of the largest insurance providers in The Netherlands. The application contains a map with No Fly Zones for the Netherlands, a checklist with a summary of the regulations, a flight-timer and a logbook. Below are a few screenshots of the ASR Vlieg Veilig (Fly Safe) application: We are now looking to add more airspace information to the AirHub platform for dronepilots in other countries as well. We would like to add the airspace information given on the map at www.lennuluba.ee to our platform. Could you tell me if this would be possible? If you would be interested, I also would like to discuss the opportunities to work together on integrating the Estonian drone regulations in a checklist within the AirHub platform. Would it be possible to schedule a phone call for that? Thank you in advance and looking forward to your reply. Kind regards, Stephan van Vuren Tel: 0634341124 AirHub - Connecting Drones www.airhub.nl