Copterus #1 Autopilot for DJI

After trying DJI Fly, DJI Flight, DroneDeploy, Drone Harmony, Dronelink, pix4dCapture, Rainbow for DJI, and Measure Ground Control, I can confirm that this is by far the most fully featured and worthwhile app for mapping and surveying with the DJI Mavic Mini. None of the other apps even come close; other than DJI Fly and Rainbow, none of them even support the Mavic, and only Rainbow comes with virtual joystick flight for mapping projects. Rainbow was a glitchy, expensive mess; this app works phenomenally well and I love only having a one-time payment. I was able to seamlessly complete a long project, swapping out batteries halfway through and continuing easily where I left off. The one recommendation I have for the dev is to please, please, allow for rotating the flight plan against the map, as opposed to just adjusting the vertices. I want to keep my plans rectangular to fit them better on paper and it’s hard to do manually.

I used thing with ArcGIS and my Mavic Air 2 for mapping on a daily basis. It makes great mapping mosaics once you learn how to get your boundaries right. The one bug I have found is that it only allows for one battery change stop within a single flight plan. If you have to do more that one, you basically have to bring the flight plan back in fresh then clip it down to where you left off from the second battery. If this was fixed, I’d give it all 5 stars. I absolutely recommend it to anyone looking to do mapping with a drone.

I just flew a couple test missions, using my Mavic Air. Like many; I am waiting for DJi Air 2S support. I must say however that I am very impressed! I set up a mission to fly over a local school (it’s Saturday and nobody is around) and found the UI real easy to navigate. The drone flew its mission admirably, nice bell sound as each waypoint was reached, and it returned home when done! Quite nice! Near the end of my mission a notification came through and I accidentally tapped on it. 😱 the result was Copterus lost the drone and guess what - it LANDED right where it was, in the school field! Fortunately it reconnected to the remote controller, and After a few frantic taps on the fly command and it launched and returned to home on its own. 😎👍🏼 But the whole time I could not tell what the drone was doing: the app was essentially frozen, but the remote did the RTH beep, so I just waited patiently. 😬 It wasn’t until I looked at my flight logs that I saw where it landed, took off, and returned! Word of advice: turn off notifications when flying a mission! Maybe even turn off cellular data! The only thing I would like is automated camera/gimbal focus. It would be nice if I could set a ‘Point of Interest’ (For example, the school building, or a baseball Diamond) that the drone would remain pointed towards while flying. I know gimbal pitch may not be easy but general direction would be much better than trying to control this manually, you can, but it will never be smooth… In all - I am VERY impressed & am telling my friends! 😊