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RotorLab GC

Free — a licence key with every download

A full MAVLink ground control station — planning, live telemetry, video and guided commands — for multirotor, VTOL, fixed-wing and quadplane, on Windows and Android. What sets it apart is first-class ATAK integration, so your aircraft and your ground team share one common operating picture.

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RotorLab GC Fly view: the aircraft airborne under guided control over a park, with the flown track, mode and battery on the status bar and altitude, speed and time in the corner.
Fly view, airborne under guided control. A real screenshot of the shipping build against a live aircraft — no mockups, and no on-screen value edited.

Native ATAK and OpenTAKServer

Your aircraft belongs on the map your ground team already has open — and that map can fly it back.

RotorLab GC HAWK-3 TELEMETRY ALT412 ft SPD14 kt HDG068° MODEGUIDED ARMEDYES BATT71% GPS3D 18 VIDEO LIVE RotorLab GC — Windows or Android CoT track Command GCS GOTO 2 ALT 400 SPD 5 ATAK — your ground team

Every aircraft on the tactical map

Published as a MIL-STD-2525 air track, parented to your ground station, by broadcast or direct addressing. Your team sees the aircraft on the map they already have open.

Command by ATAK

A map marker named GOTO 2 ALT 400 SPD 5 commands the aircraft exactly as a controller would — with per-verb permissions and a master arm, so you decide what the map is allowed to do.

Approved pilots only

Restrict who may send commands to a named list of ATAK callsigns or devices. Being on the network is not the same as being allowed to fly the aircraft.

Certificates, handled

Enroll a client certificate over OpenTAKServer with mutual TLS, or import your own truststore and client key when your organization issues its own.

The TAK / ATAK settings page in RotorLab GC: server host, CoT stream port, enrollment port, callsign prefix and GCS UID, with a client certificate showing as enrolled.
Settings → TAK / ATAK. Point it at your server, enroll a client certificate in one click, and every aircraft on this station starts publishing.

Everything you expect from a modern GCS

Plan, fly, watch

Mission planning, real-time instruments and video in one window — a clean interface tuned for working outside rather than at a desk.

ArduPilot and PX4

Over USB, telemetry radio or a network link. Multirotor, VTOL, fixed-wing and quadplane all fly from the same screen.

A roster, not a list of ports

Give each aircraft a callsign, tail number and video-feed URL — the feed hands off straight to ATAK for playback. Connected and saved aircraft sit together.

Windows and Android

Windows 10 and 11, installer or portable. Android tablets and phones on arm64. The same station on the bench and in the vehicle.

Plan view in RotorLab GC: a takeoff, a survey pattern and a return to launch listed in the mission panel, with the launch point marked on the map.
Plan view — takeoff, survey, return to launch. Patterns, fences and rally points are on the same screen.
A pre-flight checklist in RotorLab GC, five of eight items answered OK, with Close and File this checklist buttons.
Checklists record what was checked — and you can close one and fly at any point. Nothing in the station is allowed to hold up a launch.

Licensing

More than one ground station, or more than one crew? The TAK Fleet Server is the hub they all report into — one map for every crew, and with a RotorLab Device Key it files the flights to your logbook too.
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