If purchasing a full Ground Control Station as your RC Transmitter, Ground Control Software comes pre-installed on the system. A field laptop or tablet can also be utilized for flight planning if desired.
With an RC-Style Transmitter, a field laptop/tablet will need to have Ground Control Software installed to upload flight plans to the UAV, and to configure the payload pre-flight.
For Pixhawk and ArduPilot based aircraft (most non-DJI aircraft), GRYFN recommends QGroundControl. However, many other similar software are available, such as MissionPlanner and UgCS. Users should feel free to use the ground control software they are most comfortable with.
