Drone Command Centre is the operations, compliance and CRM platform for Australian
commercial RPAS operators. Crew currency, aircraft airworthiness, airspace and paperwork resolve into
a single decision your Chief Remote Pilot signs — before the job, not after the audit.
Evaluating…Chief Remote Pilot · M. Ellery Every decision recorded, pass or fail
Record-keeping
Seven years, write-once
Releases, operational logs, pilot logbooks and RPA technical logs are retained under object-lock storage, not left in a shared drive.
Eligibility engine
One source of truth
The same currency and airworthiness rules drive the roster, the conflict checker and the release decision. They can't disagree.
Airspace
National dataset on board
Airspace volumes, aerodromes, helicopter landing sites, approach splays and 3 NM boundaries ship with the app and refresh automatically.
Pricing
Flat per organisation
Only seats that create work are metered. Pilots, spotters and viewers are unlimited and free on every plan.
The spine of the product
Four inputs. One decision. A permanent record.
Australian commercial operations need a written release, approved before flight, and an
operational log after it. Drone Command Centre makes that the centre of the app instead of a form you
remember to fill in.
Crew
RePL and ARN valid, medical and inductions in date, recency met, endorsed for this operation type.
Aircraft
Serviceable, maintenance not overdue, no open defect, batteries within cycle and health limits.
Airspace
Operating area checked against airspace, aerodromes, landing sites and vertical limits at your planned ceiling.
Documentation
Risk assessment, JSA and pre-flight checklist complete and signed by the people who had to sign them.
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RELEASE GATE
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Released
The CRP issues a written release naming crew, aircraft, area and conditions. The job moves to the field.
Withheld
The gate names the blocker and who can clear it. Nobody argues about whether the paperwork was done.
Operational log
Flight time flows into pilot logbooks, aircraft hours and battery cycles the moment the job closes.
Retained
The whole chain is immutable and exportable, so an audit is a download rather than a fortnight.
What's inside
Every module an ReOC holder actually runs on.
One platform for the work, the crew, the aircraft and the evidence — instead of a scheduler,
a spreadsheet, a logbook app and a folder of PDFs that disagree with each other.
Jobs & the job wizard
A six-step build for every job: details and brief, legality check, job area, risk, JSA, attachments, sign-off.
Jobs, crew and equipment on the same board, with conflicts surfaced before they become a phone call.
Drag and drop across day, week and month
Double-booking and eligibility conflicts flagged live
Crew accept or decline from their own view
Crew & credentials
Roster, profiles, qualifications and currency in one place, with expiries that chase people instead of surprising them.
RePL, ARN, endorsements, medicals, inductions
Onboarding packs, contractor agreements, NDAs
Pilot logbooks fed from real flight data
Training & competency
A built-in LMS with the competency matrix your CRP needs to answer "who is signed off for this?"
Courses, assessments and re-training dates
Site-specific inductions per client
Matrix view across the whole crew
Safety
Risk assessments, safe work method statements, permits and incidents, all versioned and matrix-scored.
SWMS / JSEA and permit-to-work
JSA per job with hazard library and controls
Incident and hazard reporting with follow-up
Inventory & maintenance
Aircraft, batteries, payloads and kits with custody, serviceability and a defect trail that survives staff turnover.
Check-out and check-in with who holds what
Battery cycles and health tracking
Scheduled maintenance, defects and serviceability board
Airspace map
Draw the operating area, set your ceiling, and see what actually applies to that volume — not a generic red circle.
Controlled, restricted, danger, prohibited and military volumes
Aerodromes, HLS, approach and departure splays, 3 NM boundaries
Powerline and national park overlays
Flight logs
Ingest flight records natively, so hours and cycles come from the aircraft rather than from memory.
DJI flight-log ingestion with cloud back-link
KML and PDF export per flight
Automatic feed into logbooks, hours and battery cycles
Analytics & reports
Utilisation, release outcomes, crew currency and fleet hours, ready to hand to a client or a regulator.
Fleet and crew utilisation over time
Release and blocker trends
Exportable compliance reporting
Weather window
Live conditions and the full forecast timeline for the site, reachable straight from the job.
Wind, gusts, rain, cloud, temperature and storm overlays
"Weather at site" from the job wizard
No key or account to configure
Travel & itinerary
Remote jobs come with flights, cars and beds. Plan and attach the itinerary to the job it belongs to.
Trip planning tied to the job record
Crew see travel alongside their tasking
Costs stay attached to the work
Field app
Crews check in, run checklists and log flights from the phone in their hand at the site.
Job pack and brief on the device
Pre-flight and post-flight checklists
Flight logging back to the office record
ReOC compliance tiers
Specialised operations without a separate system.
Operations beyond standard daytime VLOS carry their own crew, equipment and documentation
requirements. The gate knows which ones apply to the operation type on the job, and refuses to release
until they're met.
Night VLOS — lighting, crew composition and additional currency requirements enforced per crew member.
EVLOS Class 1 and 2 — observer qualification, comms plan and training records checked before release.
Over or near people — the operation type drives the risk assessment, not the other way around.
TIER 1
Standard operations
Daytime VLOS work under the operator's ReOC, with the ordinary crew, aircraft and airspace checks applied on every job.
TIER 2
Night VLOS and EVLOS
Adds observer roles, class-specific qualification and communications requirements to the eligibility rules for the operation.
TIER 3
Over or near people
The highest-exposure category, with the corresponding controls required in the risk assessment before a release can be issued.
RECORDS
Retention as a default, not a task
Releases, logs and logbooks are held for seven years; training records for three. Nobody has to remember to archive anything.
How you run it
Same application, three ways to host it.
The product doesn't change shape depending on where it lives. Start on a laptop, move to
managed hosting, or own the thing outright — the data model and the gate are identical.
Trial & demo
On your own computer
Extract, double-click, sign in. Nothing to install beyond Python, no account required, and the airspace
dataset comes with it — useful for evaluating the gate against your own jobs before you commit.
Standard
Hosted by us in Australia
Managed hosting on Australian infrastructure with encrypted document storage, object-lock retention on
records that carry a retention obligation, backups and updates handled for you.
Perpetual licence
Self-hosted, owned
Buy the Team or Business tier outright and run it on your own infrastructure. One-time licence, first
year of maintenance included, then an annual maintenance fee for updates and support.
Plans
Priced per organisation. Pilots are free.
Charging per person punishes you for putting an extra spotter on a job.
Only seats that create work — admins, coordinators, Chief Remote Pilots — count against your plan.
Solo
Sole operator getting compliant. Unlimited free crew.
Full feature comparison and perpetual licence pricing on the plans page.
Fourteen days, no card charged
Run one real job through the gate.
Load your crew and aircraft, build a job, and see what the release
decision says. If it doesn't tell you something you didn't already know, don't buy it.