Your ref: 06.07.2017
Our ref: 14.07.2017 No 4.13-1/17/3517-2
Dear Lawrence Clift,
In short, you will need a one-year permit and a coordination for the particular area.
General information about unmanned aircraft (UA) operations:
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: Sideways Media [mailto:
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Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2017 10:01 AM
To: Lennuamet <
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Cc: Noreply Lennuamet <
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Subject: UAV permission.
Good morning,
I have been asked by the Tallin city office to contact you.
On Monday 24th July, we start our mammoth road journey as we drive from the UK to
Finland for the World Rally Championship and will be staying in Tallin Tuesday night. We are
part of an official film crew filming the rally and will be documenting our journey to and from
Finland including the use of a UAV. I am seeking permission for a short, 10 minute flight around
the location in the attached photo please. I have UK CAA UAV operator permission (attached)
including full public liability insurance. I fly a DJI Inspire 1 which has a MTOM of 3.2Kg's. Even
though we will be accredited media, we will be filming non commercially.
I look forward to your reply. Thank you.
LAWRENCE CLIFT
www.sidewaysmedia.net
01772 621421 / 07979 016274
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