Compliance

Compliant by architecture, not by good intentions

European regulation requires complete records, kept for years and protected from tampering. Dronetrake is built around that requirement — it doesn't bolt it on.

What the regulation requires

Implementing Reg. (EU) 2019/947 (UAS.SPEC.050 and its AMC) requires operators to keep and retain records of UAS operations — flights, maintenance, crew qualifications — for at least 3 years, in a form that protects their integrity. A spreadsheet anyone can edit is not that.

SHA-256

Append-only with hash-chain

Every logbook entry is chained to the previous one with a SHA-256 hash: altering or removing an entry visibly breaks the chain. Corrections exist — as linked amendments, never silent rewrites. Deletion within the 3-year retention window is blocked by the system itself.

RFC 3161

The date isn't our say-so

The ledger seals carry a qualified eIDAS RFC 3161 timestamp from FNMT-RCM, the Spanish Royal Mint: the time is certified by a third party on the European trusted lists, not by us. And public QR verification lets anyone — client, surveyor, judge — check integrity without having to trust us.

PDF

Inspection-ready

PDF export of the per-aircraft logbook with the chain head hash printed on the document, so inspectors can verify integrity. An expiry board for certificates, insurance and calibrations means no surprises at audit time.

EU · GDPR

Data in Europe, GDPR by design

Logs, footage and recordings live on European infrastructure. Configurable retention and certified erasure: every removal leaves a signed record, valid on the offsite copy too. No operational data crosses non-EU clouds just to make the product work.

A1/A3 · A2 · STS · GVC/RPC

Certificates that block, not decorate

A1/A3, A2, STS, GVC/RPC (UK) with expiry dates: a pilot with an expired certificate cannot be assigned to a mission. You see renewals coming months ahead on the expiry board.

Why a certified date changes everything

A video of a crack does not prove the crack was there that day. It proves what you can see, not when. And the «when» is almost always what gets disputed: it is the only difference between pre-existing damage and new damage, between a survey made before the work and one made after.

As long as the date comes from your own computer, it is your word against theirs. A qualified timestamp is applied by a third party on the European trusted lists: from that moment, under Article 41 of the eIDAS Regulation, that date enjoys a presumption in law. You do not have to prove it is true — whoever disputes it has to prove it is false.

On Dronetrake records it is applied by FNMT-RCM, the Spanish Royal Mint, a qualified provider on the EU Trusted List.

Where it makes the difference

Structural inspections

Wind turbine blades, power pylons, bridges, façades and roofs. A survey documenting the state of a structure is worth something as long as its date is known: six months later, «those cracks were already there» is a claim someone will have to dismantle.

Before and after works

The value of the two surveys lies entirely in their order and their dates. Without that, they are two video clips.

Loss adjusting

The moment of the survey is the central fact, especially where the claim is suspicious or there is an argument about whether the damage was made worse.

Damage assessment

Collapses, floods, landslides. Surveys exist to quantify, and the quantification ends up in a relief claim or in litigation months later, when nobody remembers the order of events any more.

Monitoring over time

Landslides, reservoirs, embankments. A series of surveys is worth something as a series: if the dates hold, the movement is documented; if they don't, it's an impression.

Civil protection

What was overflown, when, by whom. It goes into the end-of-emergency report, and into the inquiry that sometimes follows.

Every flight and every recording can become a document with evidentiary weight: not a file on someone's phone, but a record with a date that holds up before a third party.

What it does not prove

The timestamp certifies that the document existed at that date and has not been modified since: the data recorded by the aircraft — take-off time, duration, coordinates — stays fixed as it was, and nobody can retouch it after the fact. What no timestamp can establish is whether what a person states matches reality: a note saying «no damage found» remains the judgement of whoever wrote it, and the timestamp fixes its date, not its truth. Anyone promising you more is selling something that does not exist.

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