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RotorLab GC

A full MAVLink ground control station for multirotor, VTOL, fixed-wing and quadplane, on Windows and Android: planning, live telemetry, video and guided commands. 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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Free: a license key comes with every download. Running more than one crew? Talk to us about a fleet.

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.

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.

Command by ATAK

A map marker named GOTO 2 ALT 400 SPD 5 commands the aircraft as a controller would, with per-verb permissions and a master arm.

Approved pilots only

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

Certificates, handled

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

Everything you expect from a modern GCS

Real screenshots of the shipping build against live aircraft: no mockups, and no on-screen value edited.

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 viewTakeoff, 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 that never hold up a launchThey record what was checked, and you can close one and fly at any point.
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 / ATAKPoint it at your server, enroll a client certificate in one click, and every aircraft on this station starts publishing.
The Who is flying dialog on a ground station, listing pilots from the RotorLab roster with currency lapsed and currency due soon warnings beside two of them.
Who is flyingYour RotorLab roster at the launch point, currency warnings and all, when a Fleet Server is connected.

The specifics

Aircraft, links, platforms and the license, in one table.

AutopilotsArduPilot and PX4, over USB, telemetry radio or a network link. Multirotor, VTOL, fixed-wing and quadplane all fly from the same screen.
PlatformsWindows 10 and 11, installer or portable. Android tablets and phones on arm64. The same station on the bench and in the vehicle.
RosterGive 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.
LicenseFree, and a key comes with every download. One key per install, generated and delivered per order. Deactivate a key from Settings, License and use it on another device.
More than one crewThe 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.

Install it, enter the key, fly.

Free for one station. Talk to us when the fleet grows past it.

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