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Kite Ground Control (Kite GC)

  • Software
  • Drones and boats
  • Tool

A cross-platform ground control station for INAV, ArduPilot and PX4 aircraft, covering planning, flying, logging and video in one interface.

Source on GitHub: github.com/b14ckyy/Kite-GC (opens in a new tab). Facts read at commit 9399834 (opens in a new tab).

Licenses

Code
GPL-3.0-only (opens in a new tab)

Read by Robotheca from LICENSE (opens in a new tab) (GPL-3.0-only) at commit 9399834 (opens in a new tab), on 22 Oct 2026.

Commercial use
Yes

Copyleft: Modified source must be published.

What it does

  • Shows live telemetry and a HUD with attitude, altitude, speed, compass, GPS and link health.
  • Provides a 2D moving map and a 3D globe view with terrain, mission overlay and FPV cockpit camera.
  • Plans missions with upload, download, undo/redo and a survey-pattern generator.
  • Sends arm, disarm, flight-mode and takeoff/RTL commands on ArduPilot and PX4.
  • Records flights into a searchable logbook and imports blackbox, Dataflash, tlog and raw-MSP logs.
  • Manages a fleet of aircraft and a battery library linked to flight logs.

Written by Robotheca from the project's README (opens in a new tab) at commit 9399834.

Getting started

Difficulty
Beginner

Maintenance

Status
Active: a commit in the last 90 days
Newest commit
17 Oct 2026 on master
Latest release
KiteGC 1.0.1 (13 Sept 2026)

Checked on GitHub on 22 Oct 2026.

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Robots that can run it

No robot on Robotheca is linked to it yet. Links come from a robot's robot.yaml, from its dependency files read as text, or from Robotheca's editors.

Robotheca lists software as a reference: nothing is hosted or run here, and every fact links to where it was read.