A Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) is the land notified as an SSSI under the Wildlife and Countryside Act (1981).
As SSSI are the finest sites for wildlife and natural features, supporting many characteristic, rare and endangered species, habitats and natural features.
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Drone Scene is the only drone safety app in the world to offer SSSI layers
More New Features
Create a light / dark / system-mode theme option
– Requested by @PingSpike
– Drone Scene has always set either Light or Dark colour themes based on your device settings
– You can now override this by editing your Drone Scene Profile settings
– Choose between Light, Dark or System
— The System setting will check if your device is in Dark mode and if so, Drone Scene will automatically follow suit
– Your preference is saved to your profile so will use this theme on any device you log in with
Changed National Trust layer colours
– Requested by @DeanoG60
– Make open access green
– Make limited access red
Changed the display order of attached (multiple) media
– If you add a video and an image and a Kuula to a location we always prioritised the video
– This isn’t great for older locations as the author has sometimes removed the video from their YouTube or Vimeo
– If you attach multiple media(s) to a location we will now use the photograph for the location thumbnail instead of the video
Bug Fixes
Adding a location with an emoji caused a fatal error
– Reported by @D0c.Col
Other Random Stuff
Added international support for people based overseas to become Members
We hope you find this level of update / detail / release notes useful.
As ever, please continue to enjoy Drone Scene and please keep those feature requests coming!
Could I respectfully ask why? Is this just to be on the safe side? The reason I ask is that not all SSSIs are there for wildlife and the CAA seem to imply that’s the main reason why some SSSIs shouldn’t be flown over.
We have one near us, which has a road through it and encourages walking (it’s even open access, I believe).
I guess the main thing is to make sure first, rather than assuming it’s okay to fly.
Can we have an option to open the map zoomed in around our current location? It opens with a view of the country and as stated, a lot of data to download. Better to open with a small amount of data needed than everything?
Hi Rich,
I asked you to hopefully get some insight into why this broad was comment was made
I fully understand that any SSSI associated with animal/bird/wildlife breeding grounds etc. need to be protected, however this sites interest must be the old quarry buildings and I’m hoping they won’t get too upset if we fly over them.
I’m looking for advice here as we thought it might be a good spot for a ‘camera drone’ meet instead of a FPV bando type of meet.
I think rich is erring on the side of caution. It’s obvious rich is in contact with natural England so there’s going to be a bit of politics involved in order to keep a good relationship.
Probably impossible but it would be good to add info to the layer like with FRZs where ATCs contact number is listed it could actually state what the SSI actually is. But I doubt this information is easily available?
A lot are wildlife. A lot are also fungi/newts and other things too. Take into consideration it’s not just the ‘flight’ that may be concern but also where you take off and land. Or worst still where it falls out of the sky or what it might hit.
For me this comes down to the one thing I use before I take every flight. Common sense, and I suspect natural England and dare I say it grey arrows (although contrary to what I’m about to say here, I’d say the vast majority of ‘actively posting’ members do have common sense) have gone with the lowest common denominator in that common sense is lacking these days.
As for clee hill. Without knowing what the actual SSSI is. This has been on my places to visit for a long time but never got round it. It’s a common place for people to go and I wouldn’t have had a clue it was an SSSI unless I’d seen a sign somewhere.
I’d still be up for a meet if one gets planned and apologies if arrangements are already underway in a new thread I haven’t got round too yet (I always start with unread posts in topics I’ve already contributed too when I visit GADC)
