Guides
Guides
How the work Airffic World supports — flying, inspecting, staffing — actually gets done. Written to be useful whether or not you use the product.
Fly
- Drone rules by country →Pick a country: can you fly there, what to register, licence, altitude, no-fly areas, insurance, penalties and visitor rules, each number with its official source and check date. Thirteen countries.
- Remote ID and drone registration in Japan →Who must register (100 g and above), the steps on DIPS 2.0 for residents and foreign nationals, Remote ID and its exemptions. On Airffic Flight Institute.
- Drone no-fly zones in Japan: how to check →The five restricted airspaces, which free map shows each one, and what to do when your site is inside. A five-minute check.
- Drone wind limits: can I fly today? →The 5 m/s line in Japan's official manual, what the manufacturer's number really means, gusts and altitude, and a tool that answers for your place by the hour.
- How to fly a drone in Japan →Registration, Remote ID, where you need a permit, what needs approval, licences, flight logs — in order. Written for visitors and residents.
- Drone pre-flight checklist →The day before, before leaving, before take-off, in flight, after landing. On Airffic Flight Institute, next to flight plans and logs.
- Timeline of Japanese drone law →What changed and when, from 2015 to 2025, by effective date. Updated as rules change.
- Japan drone links →Registration, permits, maps, weather, the law. The sites you open every flight, with a note on which have an English version.
- Managing autonomous drone operations →Track position and altitude live and keep the flight history. What Airffic World does, what it deliberately does not, how to connect any aircraft.
Inspect
- Field guide to facade defects →Cracks, delamination, tile lift, efflorescence, rust staining, spalling, sealant failure — what they look like, what they mean, what to do next.
- Drone facade inspection: cheaper and faster than scaffolding →Where the cost of a facade survey actually goes, and what changes when a drone takes the photographs and AI reads them.
- Pre-renovation survey for condominiums and apartment buildings →Know the building before you read the bids. A defect list with urgency ratings for the board.
- AI building inspection: roofs, facades and fixtures →Triage across a portfolio: what the review covers, what it cannot, and a two-pass workflow for many buildings.
- AI facade inspection service →Upload photos, get defects with severity ratings. How it differs from a site-visit inspection and what it cannot replace.
Staff
Tools we use that are not ours
Where Airffic World does not have something, we point you to where it is. All free, all usable today. They are also in the app switcher (the nine dots, top right).
No referral fees, no partnerships. If that ever changes, it will say so here.