Operations Over People Checklist
Interactive operations over people checklist with progress saved in your browser — built around the failures that actually happen.
The categories trade kinetic energy for permission — and category 3's open-air-assembly prohibition is the line working pilots cross by accident at events.
Category eligibility
Operation design
Records
⚠️ 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 operations over people checklist for pilots flying over people under the categories: tick-off sections with progress saved locally — the categories trade kinetic energy for permission.
About Operations Over People Checklist
Checklists are how aviation turned individual mistakes into collective memory, and drone operations inherit the method. For pilots flying over people under the categories, the specific edge: the categories trade kinetic energy for permission — and category 3's open-air-assembly prohibition is the line working pilots cross by accident at events. Work this list live — at the site, before the flight, not from memory afterwards — and let the completion counter keep the discipline honest.
How to use Operations Over People 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 Operations Over People Checklist?
- ✓Interactive ticking with progress saved in your browser
- ✓Content built from real failure modes for pilots flying over people under the categories
- ✓Sections ordered the way the work actually flows
- ✓Reset once, reuse on every job
- ✓Free, private, no account
Frequently asked questions
How do the Part 107 operations-over-people categories work?+
Category 1: sub-0.55 lb aircraft with no exposed rotating parts that could lacerate — no declaration needed. Categories 2 and 3: aircraft with manufacturer declarations of compliance meeting injury-severity limits, with category 3 additionally barred from sustained flight over open-air assemblies and restricted to controlled-access or transit scenarios. Category 4: airworthiness-certificated aircraft. The aircraft's eligibility documentation, not its marketing, defines the category — log the declaration reference per job.
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.
Do I need an account or internet connection?+
No account and no connection are needed once the page has loaded — records live in local storage on your device and every calculation runs in your browser. Data doesn't sync between devices, so export the CSV when you want to move or archive your records.
Can I get my data out if I switch systems later?+
Always — the CSV export is a complete, lossless dump of your checklist record, generated locally in one click. Import it into commercial software, archive it with your files, or post-process it in a spreadsheet. No lock-in is deliberate: data you can't take with you isn't really yours.
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