wingman is a web-based software application that helps you understand the risks associated with your planned drone flight, plan risk-mitigation measures and comply with the legal requirements for permits. In particular, wingman provides ideal support for the Special Category Risk Assessment (SORA): by uploading your flight plan, wingman automatically determines the ground and air risks of your flight and then guides you intuitively through all the steps of the SORA process. At the end, you can export the SORA report and attach it to your application when submitting it to the authorities.

With wingman, you can meet the legal requirements for flights in the Special Category (SORA) much more quickly and with less effort, enabling you to carry out flights beyond visual line of sight, above 120 metres, or carrying cargo.

wingman is particularly useful if you have planned flights that fall into the Special Category. These include, for example, flights above 120 metres (AGL), flights beyond visual line of sight, or drone operations involving the transport of cargo. But wingman can also be useful for flights in the Open Category: our interactive map contains more data than is currently provided by official sources, such as detailed information on relevant ground areas, model airfields, nature reserves, obstacles and more.

Wingman currently contains all the data required for risk analyses within Austria. We are working flat out to extend this to other European countries.

The free version includes basic features such as drone and document management, as well as access to the map, which can be useful for any drone pilot. Although specific flights generally require a certain level of technical understanding and appropriate equipment depending on the application, we have endeavoured to make SORA in wingman as easy to understand and intuitive as possible. So you don’t need to be a SORA expert to carry out a SORA in wingman. If you get stuck, please contact our support team here.

In principle, you do not need to have an operator registration to sign up with wingman. However, to use wingman for SORAs, you must provide a registration number. Please note that a valid operator registration is a general requirement for carrying out professional drone flights.

Please create an account on wingman using your email address and password. You will then need to verify the email address you have provided; simply follow the instructions you will receive by email after creating your account. Once you have logged in for the first time, you can create an organisation. Your organisation represents your company and should hold a drone operator registration.
Alternatively, you can continue as a user without creating an organisation and use some basic functions. However, until further notice, you cannot yet be invited to join other organisations as a standard user.

Click on your user icon. In the user menu, you can manage your personal user account details under “My Account”. Under “My Organisation”, you can manage all relevant details for your organisation, such as your address, company registration number or drone operator number. You can also create drones (required for SORA) and equipment there, as well as manage all your documents, such as drone licences, certifications, insurance documents and others, so that you only need to attach them to the application later when creating a SORA.

A Specific Operation Risk Analysis is a specialised procedure used to systematically set out and explain the risks associated with your planned specific flight, along with the corresponding risk-mitigation measures and circumstances. The SORA consists of 10 steps, including, amongst other things, the assessment of risks on the ground and in the air, the description of risk-mitigation measures, and the definition of operational safety objectives. The SORA is explained in the EASA Easy Access Rules for Unmanned Aircraft Systems. Unfortunately, however, we believe the procedure is anything but “easy”, which is why we built wingman. Just give wingman a try and you’ll see that it’s designed to be intuitive and guides you through the SORA step by step. Should you still encounter any difficulties, we’re happy to offer advice. Find out more here.

At wingman, we generally distinguish between monthly and annual subscriptions. The monthly subscription is billed monthly and can be cancelled at any time, whilst the annual subscription is billed annually and can only be cancelled at the end of the year. Currently, wingman offers only one paid subscription with a fixed set of features. In future, we will also be offering additional subscriptions with extended features.

skyzr stores your files securely in a cloud data centre with servers located in Germany (27001:2013, 27017:2015, 27018:2019, 27701:2019, 9001:2015 and CSA STAR CCM v3.0.1)

If you have any problems, please contact wingman@skyzr.com. We’re here to help and will get back to you as soon as possible.