Product Update · July 2026

Flight Planning — Plan Missions with Airspace, NOTAMs & Live Traffic

UAV Desk now covers the flight before it happens. The new Flight Planning page lets you build waypoint missions on an interactive map, review the surrounding airspace, drone geo-zones, NOTAMs, and even live ADS-B traffic, and hand the finished plan to your ground station — or save it straight to one of your UAVs.

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UAV Desk flight planner showing a waypoint route over Spiez with the planning panel open — The new Flight Planning page: drop waypoints on the map, edit altitude, speed, and actions per waypoint in the panel, and keep an eye on total distance and estimated flight time — then export the mission or save it to a UAV.

What is new

Waypoint editor— switch to "New Flight Plan" mode and click the map to drop waypoints. Each one carries its own altitude (AGL or MSL), speed, heading, and action: WAYPOINT, TAKEOFF, LAND, LOITER, RTH, or JUMP. Drag markers to move them, reorder in the panel, and set the home / launch point with a right-click.
Airspace & drone geo-zones — overlay controlled airspace (with a per-category filter) and national UAS geo-zones on the planning map. In 3D mode, airspace is rendered as volumes between its vertical limits, so you can see whether the route stays below a CTR shelf.
NOTAMs & live traffic — numbered NOTAM markers with a decoded list in the sidebar, filterable by scope and category, plus live ADS-B traffic from adsb.lol refreshed every 10 seconds. All overlays are advisory only — the official briefing stays mandatory.
Import & export — bring in GPX routes, MAVLink .waypoints, or INAV .mission files, and export plans as GPX, KML, MAVLink, or INAV for Mission Planner, QGroundControl, or INAV Configurator.
Save to UAV— persist a plan to one of your aircraft with a click. It is stored alongside the UAV's configuration files, versioned on every save, and can be reopened in the planner at any time.

Why this matters

Until now, planning a mission meant jumping between a mission planner, a separate airspace map, a NOTAM briefing site, and your own file system — and none of those tools knew about your fleet. Flight Planning pulls all of that into UAV Desk: the route, the regulatory picture, and the aircraft that will fly it live in one place. Spot a conflict while the mission is still a draft, fix it by dragging a waypoint, and export exactly the format your ground station expects. And because plans are saved to the UAV that flies them, your missions become part of the same records as your configs, flights, and maintenance history.

Read the full documentation in Flight Planning for a tour of the planning map, waypoint editing, the airspace overlays, and all import/export options.