Drone Night Operations Checklist
Interactive drone night operations checklist with progress saved in your browser — built around the failures that actually happen.
Since the 2021 rule, night flight needs no waiver — just recurrent training and a 3-statute-mile anti-collision light — but the obstacle you didn't survey in daylight is still there.
Legal prerequisites
Night-specific risks
In flight
⚠️ Not for operational decisions. This is a record-keeping and planning aid only — not certified avionics, not a source of regulatory truth. Always verify against official sources (FAA) and your operator's approved documents before flying.
Free interactive drone night operations checklist for night-flying remote pilots: tick-off sections with progress saved locally — since the 2021 rule, night flight needs no waiver.
About Drone Night Operations Checklist
Since the 2021 rule, night flight needs no waiver — just recurrent training and a 3-statute-mile anti-collision light — but the obstacle you didn't survey in daylight is still there. This checklist makes the discipline executable for night-flying remote pilots: sections in working order, every item tickable with progress persisted in your browser, one reset between uses. The content is built from the documented failure modes — each line exists because skipping it has cost someone an aircraft, a client or a certificate.
How to use Drone Night Operations Checklist
- 1Open the checklist at the start of the task — site arrival, not airborne.
- 2Tick items as genuinely completed; the counter shows what remains.
- 3Reset for the next operation; adapt items to your platform and SOPs.
Why use Drone Night Operations Checklist?
- ✓Interactive ticking with progress saved in your browser
- ✓Content built from real failure modes for night-flying remote pilots
- ✓Sections ordered the way the work actually flows
- ✓Reset once, reuse on every job
- ✓Free, private, no account
Frequently asked questions
What does Part 107 require for night drone operations?+
Two things since April 2021: current training covering night operations (the online recurrent includes it), and an anti-collision light visible for at least 3 statute miles with a flash rate sufficient to avoid collision — no waiver needed. The regulatory bar is low; the operational bar isn't: daylight site surveys, lighted orientation references and disciplined RTH altitudes are what actually bring night aircraft home.
Should I customise this checklist for my operation?+
Yes — treat it as the safety baseline and extend it with your platform's quirks, your operations manual's requirements and the lessons your own incidents have taught. The method (sectioned, ordered, ticked live) matters more than any single line; a checklist that mirrors YOUR operation gets used on every job, and usage is the only metric that prevents anything.
Is this tool private — who can see my entries?+
Only you. Entries live in your browser's local storage and never leave your device, so there is no account, no cloud sync and no one else with access. Because the data is device-local, export a CSV backup before clearing browser data or switching computers.
What format does the export use and what reads it?+
A plain CSV with one row per entry and labelled column headers — the most portable format there is. Spreadsheets open it directly, most specialised software can map it on import, and a printed copy is perfectly legible to a human reviewer. Nothing proprietary means your checklist record is never trapped here.
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