1. A method for controlling, and monitoring surrounding areas of, an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) by an Operator with a remote control, comprising: providing a flight display, and a UAV equipped with a camera and a positioning device providing an image of surrounding areas and positioning data of an operating field of the UAV, wirelessly transmitted to a remote control; displaying the image captured by the camera on the flight display; providing a transparent layer upon the image comprising a cardinal-oriented map of a range of the operating field including at least a cardinal point, a UAV symbol oriented on the flight display relative to the cardinal point corresponding to a real compass direction of the UAV provided by the positioning device, the cardinal-oriented map including an Operator position symbol; a waypoint symbol positioned relative to the UAV symbol corresponding in distance and direction to a real geographical relation between the UAV and the waypoint; displaying one or more rings indicating a scale of the cardinal-oriented map, the one or more rings being centered around the Operator position symbol which coincides with a center of the flight display.