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No, I was only in Madeira. All requests I made were approved, no problem. The AAN approvals were received about 7-9days before the planned flights. The maritime approvals came within 24 hours after sending the request by email (I sent the request right after the AAN approval). I didn't see any...

- for the Tipo de visita, I used "Documentario". Because my purpose was to make "documents" at least for myself :) - I struggled to find any accurate match between the area selections in Simplifica and my planned flight areas. Only Ponta de Sao Lorenco was obvious, others not so much...

I sent the form first but they replied that they have taken Simplifica tool in use. That was in Nov '24. You can make a request to fly in Ponta de Sao Laurenco. Just stay outside the airport flight path. When you make the request to ANAC, you have to specify your drone make and model.

I would look mostly new inspiration, great locations/destinations for flying and regulation updates in those destinations Nice to start browsing the forum!

Thank you for the tips! Surely something to try out.

Hello Hauptmann, thanks for sharing, good to hear that you do not fly either on home turf! :)

I've had a drone (Mavic 2 Pro) since 2019 when it was still quite relaxed to fly a drone. It was enough if you had some common sense :) But I have flown my drone much less than I anticipated. One reason is not that obvious. There are so many forests in Finland that it creates a challenge where...

An update on drone flying in Madeira. I did try to do it by the book and get all the needed authorizations. Some of the requirements are already explained earlier in this thread so I'm not repeating those (registration, AAN, capitania, voanaboa etc). But there are some recent updates: - About...