Drone Rules for Diomício Freitas Airport
Critical No-Fly Zone covering Diomício Freitas Airport (CCM/SSFC). All unauthorized drone flights are strictly prohibited within this airspace to eliminate catastrophic collision risks with commercial regional flights, executive transport fleets, flight training aircraft, and emergency aeromedical flights.
The Diomício Freitas Airport (IATA: CCM, ICAO: SSFC), located in Forquilhinha and serving the Forquilhinha and Criciúma metropolitan region in Santa Catarina, is a vital infrastructure hub for the state's southern economic sector. The airport handles a steady volume of regional charter flights, corporate executive transport, and critical aeromedical air ambulance operations servicing regional medical facilities. It also hosts local flight school maneuvers and general aviation maintenance operations.
Because arriving and departing aircraft execute low-altitude visual (VFR) and instrument (IFR) approaches directly over dense urban areas, residential neighborhoods, and major highway systems, uncoordinated drone activity within this airspace poses an immediate mid-air collision hazard. An accident here would jeopardize commercial operations and civilian safety on the ground. Consequently, spontaneous or recreational drone flights within the airfield perimeter, its obstacle limitation surfaces, or its designated security protection grids are completely prohibited under federal law (Brazilian Penal Code, Art. 261).