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Dronelytics MCP server

Check US drone airspace, plan survey flights, and export flight plans from your AI chat.

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This is a small helper that connects your AI assistant to Dronelytics, a drone mission planning service for the United States. Once it is set up, you can ask your AI plain questions about where you are allowed to fly, and it will look up the answers for you. It is handy for drone pilots, survey teams, and anyone who plans flights and wants to avoid surprises.

What is an MCP server? The 30-second version

On its own, your AI can only chat with you. An MCP server is a small helper program that gives your AI a new skill or a connection to another service. This one connects your AI to Dronelytics, so it can look up FAA airspace, plan missions, and export flight plans when you ask. You do not need to understand how it works inside; you just add it once and then talk to your AI like usual.

What this MCP server does

You ask your AI something like whether you can fly at a certain spot. Your AI sends that question to this helper, and the helper talks to the Dronelytics service. Dronelytics checks FAA airspace data, your saved missions, or your drone profiles, depending on what you asked. Then the answer comes back into your chat as a clear reply, a list, or a file you can download.

Flow diagram: you ask your AI “Can I fly a drone at the Golden Gate Bridge?”, the Dronelytics MCP server connects it to Dronelytics, and you get back GO, CAUTION, or NO-GO.

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What you can do with it

Check whether you can fly at a specific address or map point
See active flight restrictions and notices near a location
Validate a flight against Part 107 rules for a place, height, and time
Plan a grid survey, orbit, panorama, spiral, or corridor mission
Save, update, duplicate, or delete your drone missions
Export a mission as a KML, GPX, or file for your flight app
Add and manage your drone profiles

Try asking your AI

“Can I fly a drone at the Golden Gate Bridge?”
“Plan a grid survey of this 10-acre field at 200ft with my DJI Mavic 3”
“Give me a pre-flight briefing for my construction survey mission”
“What airports are within 5nm of 37.7749, -122.4194?”

What it gives back to you

You get answers in the chat, often as a short verdict like GO, CAUTION, or NO-GO, with the reasons listed. It can also return lists of missions, drones, airports, or restrictions near a spot. When you ask for an export, it gives you a file such as KML or GPX that you can save and open in other tools. Changes you ask for, like creating or updating a mission, are made in your Dronelytics account.

Before you start

What you need

A Dronelytics account
An API key from your Dronelytics settings (a kind of password the site gives you)
Node.js installed on your computer
An AI app that supports MCP, such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, or Windsurf

Good to know

This helper can create, change, and delete missions and drone profiles in your account, so check before you confirm anything that removes work.

Install it with your AI

Add Dronelytics MCP server to your AI, no technical skills needed

You don't install anything by hand. You copy one prompt, paste it into an AI that can work on your computer, and it checks, installs and connects the server for you, asking you when it needs something.

Sign in to get the install prompt

Members get a ready-made prompt that lets the Claude desktop app check Dronelytics MCP server, install it and connect it for them, step by step. You don't need any technical skills: you copy, paste and answer a few questions. Your connected AI can also find and install any of the 4,066 MCP servers here for you.