Application for the establishment of a restricted area (R-area)

The complete application must be received by the Swedish Transport Agency no later than seven weeks before the current time for establishing a restricted area.

Processing of personal data

Here you will find information about how the Swedish Transport Agency processes personal data collected via the website and through our e-services (in swedish).

Your application must include the following

1. Contact information (mandatory)

Enter here the organization or authority, including address, postal code, postal address, telephone number, email and contact person.

2. Planned activities (mandatory)

Here you describe why a restriction area is needed.

3. Justification (mandatory)

Here you justify the need for a restricted area and what the purpose of the restricted area is to achieve.

4. Designation, lateral boundaries and height of the restricted area (mandatory)

Name

The applicant's proposal for the name of the restricted area. The name should be traceable to the geographical location to which the area is to be covered.

Coordinates including buffer

The restriction area must be described with coordinates in WGS84 format. The coordinates should not be more than 10 to describe an area. In specific areas where the boundaries of the area should be clarified, the applicant should use the appropriate relaxation method to minimize the number of coordinates. The coordinates of the area must be described from the northwestern point and then continue clockwise to end in the same coordinate.

Example:
625038N124302E
624756N125849E
624213N125126E
624738N124025E
625038N124302E

When flying with a drone, a safety buffer of 1 NM on the inside of the restriction area must be applied on the side.

Use LFV's drone map to help and use the coordinate tool. Coordinates follow the mouse pointer and are presented at the bottom left corner. When using other GIS tools that use a different reference system, the coordinates should be transformed to WGS84 (degrees, minutes, seconds) and be without decimals.

Height including buffer

Enter here what height the restriction area should cover.

Heights are stated in ft AMSL (feet above mean sea level), which means that you must check the highest point of the ground in the searched area.

When flying with drones, a safety buffer of 500 ft on the inside of the restriction area must be added.

Use the appropriate mapping tool to identify altitudes to obtain the highest point in the area + flight altitude + buffer.

An example: Highest point within the area = 259m AMSL. Flight in the area takes place at 120m with a 150m buffer = 529m. Convert 529m to feet and round up = 1736ft which rounded up becomes 1800ft AMSL).

Other examples:
GND-4000 ft AMSL
GND-FL70 AMSL
3000 ft AMSL-FL195

5. Validity periods (mandatory)

Start time date (yyyy-mm-dd) and time in UTC (eg 2022-01-01, 0900)

Closing time date (yyyy-mm-dd) and time in UTC (eg 2022-12-31, 2359).

Specified validity periods

Enter H24 if the validity period is continuous between the date range. If the time period is the same every day, use the term "daily" start time-end time. for example 2022-01-01 - 2022-12-31 daily 0900–1600.
If the time period varies daily, enter the time for each day:

Example:
MON 0900-1600.
TUE 0900-1300.
WED 0800-1300.
THU N/A
FRI 1100-1400.

6. Exempt from restrictions

Here you enter e.g. which actors should be exempt from the restrictions.

7. Collaboration

Has there been collaboration with other authorities, stakeholders and business actors in the area that may be affected by a restricted area? If yes, enter here who you have had contact with and also send with contact information.

8. Other documentation (mandatory)

Always attach a map or image of the restricted area (preferably made with the Dronechart mapping tool) and your possible operational permit if you fly drones in category specific according to (EU) 2019/947.

Here you also enter other information that may be important for the Swedish Transport Agency's processing of the case.

How to submit your application

The complete application must be received by the Swedish Transport Agency no later than seven weeks before the current time for establishing a restriction area.

The application is sent by e-mail to luftfart@transportstyrelsen.se.

Contact

The Swedish Transport Agency
Maritime and Aviation Department
601 73 Norrköping
Phone: 0771-503 503
E-mail: asm@transportstyrelsen.se