ISR DroneRunner™

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ISR DroneRunner™

Preflight Planning for Remote Pilots

ISR DroneRunner helps remote pilots evaluate conditions, airspace, restrictions and nearby aviation around a launch point before a drone operation — each one measured against the operating limits you set, with its source and its age on screen.

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iOS 17 or later iPhone & iPad Pre-release

ISR DroneRunner Brief screen for a launch point in San Francisco, with an overall status of LIMITS / RESTRICTIONS, four of seven domains needing attention, and cards for wind, return wind, weather and airspace that each name their source and age
Brief → Seven domains
7 Domains in every brief
20 Checklist items
10 NM Nearby aviation radius
FAA · NOAA · NWS Named on every finding

Airspace

The airspace around your operating volume, in plain words.

Set a radius and a ceiling, and ISR DroneRunner shows the controlled airspace at your launch point and within 10 nautical miles, special use airspace and 14 CFR 99.7 restrictions — with a cross-section of where each one sits against the volume you plan to fly.

Where authorization may be required, it says so and leaves obtaining it to you: links to the FAA’s LAANC page and FAA DroneZone, and your operating area ready to copy into a request made there.

Airspace screen showing the authorization line, an operating volume of 1,500 feet radius and 400 feet AGL ceiling drawn in cross-section beneath Class E floors at 700 and 1,200 feet, and San Francisco Class B listed as beginning above the operating volume
Airspace → Operating volume

Map

Put the launch point where you’ll actually stand.

Set it by place search, GPS, a dropped pin, typed coordinates or a saved location, then adjust the operating radius and ceiling. Nothing changes your mission until you confirm it.

The map draws controlled airspace, special use airspace, 14 CFR 99.7 restrictions and TFRs around the point, and a legend names every mark.

Map of San Francisco with the launch point pinned inside a 1,500 foot operating radius, controlled airspace boundaries outlined in blue and magenta, and two Temporary Flight Restrictions shaded in red
Map → Launch point

Mission bearing

Mission Bearing Compass — set the course you plan to fly.

Set the outbound course you intend to fly on a compass rose: turn the dial, step it by 1 or 10 degrees, or take it from your device’s compass heading where one is available. ISR DroneRunner then works out the wind on your return leg along that course, instead of assuming the worst direction.

It is a planning input, not navigation guidance — ISR DroneRunner does not hold or monitor a course.

Mission Bearing screen with a compass rose marked every 30 degrees and at the four cardinal points, a teal marker set at 120 degrees, the mission bearing reading 120 degrees east-southeast as selected by the pilot, and a slider and buttons to step it by 1 or 10 degrees
Wind → Mission Bearing

Wind

Wind measured against your limits, not ours.

You set the sustained and gust limits for your aircraft. ISR DroneRunner compares the observed surface wind with them and shows how close you are, naming the station it read and how old the report is.

Estimates at 200 and 400 feet are labeled as derived, never passed off as observations, and return-wind advice follows the bearing you plan to fly.

Wind screen showing a surface wind of 10 knots from 260 degrees against configured limits of 10 knots sustained and 15 knots gust, marked LIMIT, above estimated winds at 200 and 400 feet labeled as derived
Conditions → Wind

Forecast

Your operating window, hour by hour.

Choose the window you plan to fly and see the National Weather Service forecast for each hour in it, with wind and visibility assessed against your limits.

The next 24 hours sit just below, so if a later hour looks better you can move your window to it with one tap.

Forecast screen for a 1045 to 1145 local operating window, listing each hour with wind, visibility, sky cover and precipitation chance, findings that forecast gusts reach the gust limit, and the next 24 hours below
Conditions → Forecast

Weather radar

Weather Radar — see what’s ahead.

Keep an eye on approaching precipitation with NEXRAD reflectivity imagery centered on your launch point, at 25, 50 or 100 nautical miles with labeled range rings. Play the six-frame loop to see how nearby weather has been moving, and check the nearest radar site’s status beneath the scope.

Radar is there for your own review of changing conditions. It is not part of the brief’s assessment, and it does not replace official weather information.

Radar screen showing NEXRAD reflectivity around a launch point in San Francisco at 50 nautical miles, with range rings labeled every 10 nautical miles, the KMUX radar site marked by a triangle, a Play Loop control and a selector for 25, 50 and 100 nautical miles
Conditions → Radar

TFRs + NOTAMs

TFRs and NOTAMs, ranked for your mission.

Temporary Flight Restrictions are grouped by whether they reach your operating area, and each one opens to the FAA’s own text, reproduced word for word.

NOTAMs are ranked by relevance to your mission and filter down to your operating window with one tap.

Restrictions screen showing two Temporary Flight Restrictions that reach the operating area, each with its type, effective times and altitudes, filter buttons for All, In window, TFR and NOTAM, and national area notices below
Airspace → Restrictions

Preflight checklist

A preflight checklist tied to the brief.

Twenty items in four groups — pilot, aircraft, environment and airspace — with context from the brief shown beside the items it informs.

When you open the Restrictions screen, ISR DroneRunner records that TFRs and NOTAMs were reviewed, what was shown and when. The record copies to the clipboard for your own notes.

Preflight checklist with environment and airspace items, each carrying context from the brief, and the TFRs reviewed and NOTAMs reviewed items checked and marked as recorded from the brief
Checklist → 20 items

What it is, and what it is not

A briefing tool. The decision stays with the pilot.

Not a LAANC provider.

ISR DroneRunner does not issue, request or obtain FAA airspace authorization. Where authorization may be required it says so, and points you to the FAA’s own channels.

Results, not permissions.

WITHIN LIMITS means the values read were inside the limits you configured. It is not a clearance or a compliance determination, and the remote pilot in command remains responsible for every operation.

Missing data is never good news.

Every finding names its source and its age, each status has its own shape as well as its color, and a domain that could not be read says NO DATA instead of looking clear.

TestFlight beta

Help Shape ISR DroneRunner

ISR DroneRunner is being prepared for Apple’s TestFlight beta program ahead of its App Store release. Beta pilots try it against real missions and tell us what is unclear, missing or wrong, and that feedback improves the app before it ships.

Request a beta invitation

iOS 17.0 or later · iPhone and iPad · Beta and support questions: dronerunner@isrnetworks.com