Professional drone operators with full ROC (transition period)

Is your drone flight commercial and do you have a full ROC? During the transition period, until January 1st 2022, you can use your ROC under the current rules in the Regeling op afstand bestuurde luchtvaartuigen. Please keep the following in mind:

• Adhere to the procedures of your approved operational handbook.
• Keep the drone within 500 m of the drone pilot and continuously within view of the pilot or observer.*
• The maximum height is 120 m over ground or water.*
• If the drone weighs more than 25 kg, then the minimum horizontal distance* of the drone is:
  • 150 m from crowds, built-up areas, motorways, highways and 80 km/hr roads;
  • 50 m from industrial areas and port areas, vessels, vehicles, engineering works and
    railway tracks.
• If the drone weighs 25 kg or less, then the minimum horizontal distance* of the drone from crowds, built-up areas, motorways, highways, 80 km/hr roads, railway tracks, vessels and vehicles is:
  • 25 m for Category H (helicopter);
  • 50 m for Category A (aircraft) or OA (other).

General rules

• Only daylight operations are permitted.*
• Give way to other manned aircraft.
• Flying your drone within 3 km of airports without a control zone (CTR) is permitted when there is no objection of the airport operator. Please contact the operator before your mission.
• Flying in a Natura 2000 area is only permitted with a permit (provided by the provincial authority).
• Filming and photography is only permitted with permission from the people to be filmed and photographed.

Rules for the CTR

If your drone mission is in the control zones (CTR) of Schiphol, Rotterdam, Eelde, Beek, Lelystad (outside the RPAS Prohibited areas; since missions in the RPAS prohibited area are not allowed), the following rules apply:
         

• Only with ROC with approval for CTR.
• Weather minima: 800 m ground visibility and/or 600 ft cloud base.
• The maximum height is 45 m, or maximum 5 m above an obstacle (within 25 m horizontally of the obstacle). The latter does not apply to the Schiphol CTR. There the maximum height is 45 m in all cases.

Drone missions in military CTR’s are only allowed with prior approval from the local military air traffic control unit.

_{*Unless exempted by the Human Environment and Transport Inspectorate (ILT).}

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