DGAC Chile
Chile
Permit path requiredDAN 151 for populated or formal operations
Chile has a narrow recreational exception for very small, lightweight aircraft. Most other populated-area, professional, or higher-risk operations require registration, a remote-pilot credential, supporting documents, and DGAC authorization.
The trip, step by step
- Bring it
- No drone-specific customs restriction was established from the reviewed DGAC sources. Check Chilean Customs separately for professional or temporary-import equipment.
- Register it
- Use DGAC Chile, SIPA, and DAN 151 requirements for registration, pilot credential, and authorization.
- Fly it
- An aircraft up to 750 g, made from expanded polyethylene or equivalent material and used privately for recreation, may operate in a private populated-area location without DGAC authorization, provided it remains no more than 50 m above the highest obstacle or building in the operating area. Other operations are subject to DAN 91 or DAN 151 as applicable.
- Map check
- Check the Chilean AIP and NOTAMs. Do not operate in prohibited or danger areas, restricted areas without authorization, military or prison sites, strategic facilities, or the published runway-protection buffers.
Before you travel
- 01Check DAN 151 and DGAC drone requirements.
- 02Use SIPA for remote pilot credential/authorization steps where required.
- 03Secure park or land manager permission where required.
- 04Plan for wind, remoteness, and emergency helicopter traffic.
Operating notes
- Max altitude
- Under DAN 151, authorized VLOS operations are limited to 120 m / 400 ft above the takeoff point and 500 m horizontally unless DGAC grants special authorization.
- Commercial work
- Aerial work or populated-area operations require aircraft registration, a DGAC remote-pilot credential, operating authorization, coordinates or KMZ data, site-owner permission, insurance and JAC/operator documentation. Commercial aerial work requires the applicable operator certificate.