UAS Operational Disclaimer
Planning-assistance role
AeroClear is a software decision-support tool intended to help users organize and assess information relevant to UAS mission planning. It may combine or display information from multiple sources and apply models, thresholds, scoring, interpolation, geospatial processing, or other automated analysis.
What AeroClear does not replace
- Applicable statutes, regulations, waivers, certificates, operating limitations, and organizational procedures.
- FAA DroneZone, LAANC, NOTAMs, TFRs, official charts, approved B4UFLY services, air traffic control instructions, or other authoritative airspace information.
- Required FAA, federal, state, local, tribal, territorial, property-owner, land-manager, or site authorization.
- The Remote Pilot in Command’s legal responsibility, aeronautical decision-making, risk assessment, and continuing duty to avoid hazards and other aircraft.
- Aircraft inspection, maintenance, battery assessment, crew briefing, communications checks, contingency planning, Remote ID compliance, or required preflight procedures.
- On-site observation of weather, obstacles, people, vehicles, wildlife, electromagnetic interference, construction, emergency activity, or changing conditions.
Data limitations
Weather, traffic, airspace, geomagnetic, GNSS, terrain, map, and other information may be stale, incomplete, generalized, delayed, mislocated, unavailable, or incorrect. Not all aircraft are detectable or displayed. Forecasts and modeled conditions are probabilistic. Connectivity failure can prevent updates. Map boundaries and labels may not reflect legal boundaries or current restrictions.
Required independent verification
Before every operation, verify current official information using the sources and procedures applicable to that operation. Confirm that required authorization has actually been granted and remains valid. Confirm local takeoff, landing, privacy, trespass, emergency, and land-use restrictions independently. Recheck conditions immediately before launch and continue monitoring throughout the operation.
Conflict rule
When AeroClear conflicts with an official source, authorization, regulation, manufacturer instruction, on-site observation, or pilot judgment, do not rely on AeroClear. Use the more restrictive or authoritative information and delay, modify, relocate, or cancel the operation as appropriate.
No emergency use
Do not rely on AeroClear as the sole source for emergency response, public-safety deployment, detect-and-avoid, collision avoidance, lost-link recovery, or any operation in which delayed or incorrect information could create an unreasonable risk of death, injury, property damage, or regulatory violation.
User acknowledgment
By using AeroClear for mission planning, you acknowledge that aviation conditions and legal requirements can change rapidly, software can fail, and the operator—not AeroClear—makes and owns the final operational decision.