Anyone have any recommendations on the best Apple app for collecting drone pics with?
Some of the ones that I've looked at are free.
Best free app is Pix4D Mapper for IOS and Android
Best Paid app Map Pilot by Drones Made Easy for IOS only
Map Pilot cost about $25 and includes great features like:
- Multi-battery?ÿmanagement. Not limited to a single battery.?ÿ Planning mode suggests how many batteries are needed. If flight the bird with return to home for battery swap, then continue mission
- Log File review on the device via Google Earth
- Basemap Caching for Offline Operations
- Line of Sight Indicator
- Terrain Aware to stay a uniform altitude above the ground. If have hills and rolling terrain. You can parallel?ÿthe ground, not just stay a constant altitude
- Save/Edit Missions
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Drone Deploy is also a decent app although not as good as the two that Lee had mentioned.
The Pix4D app would be my pick if they could ever figure out the multi-battery management for IOS. They keep saying that this update is coming, but it never does.
The Map Pilot App sounds like it would be definitely worth the few bucks to buy it.
Map Pilot has a nice add on for linear missions. We just discovered that it stops working when the Ipad impacts the pavenent at 45 mph. Long story...
Wow, it might not be a bargain after all! I don't want to fly in any cumulus bitumen.
Going to take my test Tuesday. There's a lot more to this than I thought at first, but I'm not getting any younger, and would like to have it in my tool box.
You can get the regular version of Map Pilot for about $10, or the Business model for about $40, which has all the options unlocked. I will probably go with the business model, and will have all it offers at a discounted rate from purchasing them all.