Loading zones onto DJI drones

Advisory / overlay only

DJI is the most common - and most misunderstood - case. The honest summary: you cannot replace DJI's built-in geofencing with your own no-fly zones, and on the consumer apps you can't display custom keep-out polygons at all. There are two genuinely useful routes, below.

DJI's GEO / FlySafe cannot be replaced or added to. The restriction database is entirely DJI's. "Custom Unlock" only removes DJI restrictions over an area you're authorised to fly - it never adds a keep-out. As of late 2025 DJI's GEO is advisory in many regions (warnings, no hard block). Treat canfly? zones as your source of truth and check them before you fly.

Source: DJI FlightHub 2 User Guide; DJI GEO announcements (Nov 2025). Confidence: official.

Route 1 - EU C-class geo-awareness (ED-269)

DJI drones sold in the EU with a class marking (C0-C3: e.g. Mini 4 Pro, Air 3, Mavic 3) have a geo-awareness function that can import an authority-style ED-269 zone file and show advisory warnings for those zones in DJI Fly.

On the download page, choose your country and the ED-269 format, and download the .json.
In DJI Fly, open the geo-zone / geo-awareness import option and select the ED-269 file.
The zones load as advisory warnings shown alongside DJI's own zones.

Limitations, confirmed in the field: the warnings are advisory only; a single malformed entry can break the whole import; you can't remove a zone set once loaded; and you can't load several files at once. Download a focused ED-269 for the country you're flying rather than a huge multi-country file.

Source: national authority DJI upload guidance (e.g. Cyprus DCA). Confidence: official (authority docs).

Route 2 - DJI Pilot 2 (enterprise): a visible overlay

On enterprise aircraft (Matrice, Mavic 3 Enterprise) with DJI Pilot 2, the cleanest way to see your zones is as a map annotation via DJI FlightHub 2 (cloud, subscription): import a KML of your zones as annotations and they sync to the controller as a visible overlay. This displays the zones; it does not enforce anything.

Do not import a keep-out zone as a Pilot 2 flight route. If you import a polygon KMZ/KML into Pilot 2's route planner, it becomes a mapping mission the drone will fly - the exact opposite of a no-fly zone. Use the FlightHub 2 annotation path for keep-outs.

If you do use Pilot 2's route import, note it needs a Polygon (not points) and every coordinate must carry an altitude value, or the import fails.

Source: DJI FlightHub 2 User Guide; heliguy KB (Mavic 3M KML/KMZ import). Confidence: official + community.

DJI Fly / DJI GO 4 (consumer): custom zones?

No. Neither consumer app can display a custom no-fly polygon - they show only DJI's own FlySafe zones. DJI Fly can import waypoint missions (routes), but that's not a zone. For checking zones on a consumer DJI drone, use Route 1 (C-class ED-269) if your aircraft supports it, or simply view the zones in the canfly? map or a field app before you fly.

Download zones as ED-269

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