What’s new in FlybyOps

Smarter equipment tracking

A round of upgrades to how you track drones, batteries and controllers.

• Equipment is flagged “In Use” the moment a flight starts, and links back to that flight.
• Every asset now shows the projects it has flown on, for a full utilisation picture.
• Retiring a piece of equipment automatically retires its maintenance schedules.
• Maintenance can trigger after a set number of flights, and service records attach to any schedule.

Archive, restore and filter

More control over keeping your workspace tidy and focused.

• Archive and restore flights, so test or erroneous entries never clutter your logs.
• Archive, restore or delete projects to keep the active list focused on live work.
• Filter the risk register straight to the hazards that matter.

Editable project & job map areas

Draw and redraw the geographic boundary of a project or job on the map at any time — not only when you first create it.

Connect an AI assistant

Link Claude or ChatGPT to your workspace and query or update your FlybyOps data in plain language, secured by scoped API keys and one-click connectors.

Roles and access controls

Managing who can do what is now simpler and more consistent.

• Admins can change a teammate’s workspace role directly from the members screen.
• Permissions were consolidated across every resource, so access behaves the same way everywhere.

Documents, everywhere they belong

Attach supporting evidence to more of your records, and find it faster.

• Link a document to a specific drone or a specific person.
• Pilots and ground crew can upload evidence now, not just managers.
• Filter the document list by type to find certifications and licences quickly.

Risk and incident reporting

Stronger tools for flagging hazards and documenting incidents.

• File risks anonymously, whistleblower-style, and link them to the equipment involved.
• Projects and jobs now surface their open-risk counts.
• Download any incident as a formatted PDF, branded with your own workspace logo.

Quality-of-life improvements

Smaller refinements from across the platform.

• Correct or complete flight details after logging — flights are no longer frozen.
• Switch weather readings between metric and imperial units.

Plans, billing and free trials

Self-serve subscriptions arrived, with an automatic trial for every new workspace.

• Professional, Business and Enterprise tiers, with invoice history.
• A 14-day free trial on sign-up — no credit card required.
• Branded subdomains for enterprise customers, scoped to their own organisation.

In-context team chat

Every workspace, project and job now has a real-time chat thread with unread indicators, so crews coordinate in context without leaving FlybyOps.

DJI flight ingest and telemetry

The core flight pipeline — from DJI hardware to a mapped, charted record.

• Ingest flights live from DJI controllers, or upload DJI flight logs by hand.
• Flights auto-link to the right project by location; anything unmatched lands in a “needs linking” view.
• Flight paths render on a map alongside altitude, speed and other telemetry charts.
• Drones, batteries and cameras detected in a log are added to your equipment automatically.

Recurring job schedules

Set up repeating jobs and the system creates the next 30 days of instances for you, so recurring inspections never have to be rebuilt by hand.

Maintenance scheduling and reminders

Schedule recurring maintenance per asset from industry templates, get an email reminder before each cycle comes due, and keep a completion history for every service.

Approval and investigation workflows

Governed workflows that produce a defensible record.

• Jobs move through draft → ready for review → approved, with a recorded approver — no self-sign-off.
• Incidents follow an enforced flow from report through root-cause to closure.