Command
Plan, confirm and execute with aircraft state always visible.
Tactical mission management platform
One station.
Every mission layer.
TAC-GCS unifies aircraft control, mission planning, dispatch, automated return-to-hangar, airspace awareness and TAK interoperability in a ground control station built for disciplined public safety and enterprise UAS operations.
10Simultaneous aircraft*
Mixed fleetArduCopter + PX4
TAKCommon operating picture
*Subject to licensed seat count.
Designed, owned and developed by AirCAV Global LLC
WINDOWSARDUCOPTER 4.6.xPX4 v1.17MULTI-AIRCRAFTDFR HANGAR RETURNTAK-ENABLED
THE OPERATIONAL PROBLEM
Situational awareness should not be scattered across disconnected tools.
TAC-GCS puts the operator’s aircraft, mission geometry, telemetry, airspace context and team network into a single view—so the command loop stays clear from dispatch through recovery.
Fleet
Control multiple aircraft without losing per-unit mission context.
Awareness
See traffic, ceilings, fences, routes and operating data together.
Interoperate
Publish aircraft and exchange operational information through TAK.
THE PLATFORM
Built around the map.
Designed around the mission.
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COMMAND
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Unified command view
Mission planning, flight telemetry, TAK context, mapping and fleet state in one operational workspace.
FROM CALL TO AIRBORNE
A faster command loop—without hiding operational safeguards.
For DFR and rapid-response programs, TAC-GCS turns a searched or clicked location into a unit-aware aircraft dispatch, then brings the aircraft home to its hangar with one control, while preserving pre-arm checks and explicit operator confirmation.
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Locate
Search an address, coordinate or what3words location—or select directly on the map.
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Select
Choose the responding aircraft with distance, availability and link state visible.
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Confirm
Review readiness, target AGL and the exact command sequence.
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Operate
Track route, telemetry, airspace and team context while every aircraft is monitored for failsafes and unexpected events.
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Recover
Return the aircraft to its assigned hangar with one control, including marker-guided precision landing on ArduCopter.
DFR HANGAR & AUTOMATED RETURN
Every aircraft knows where home is.
Each aircraft is assigned its own hangar. One control brings it back and lands it on the pad, even if it set down somewhere else first. Because the hangar becomes that aircraft’s home point, its own onboard return and failsafes lead back to the hangar too.
- One-button return: flies the aircraft to its hangar and lands it; an aircraft grounded away from base is armed, lifted off and brought home
- Hangar assignment tied to the specific flight controller hardware, not just a fleet slot
- Pad elevation taken from surveyed elevation data, so return altitudes use real ground height
- Per-aircraft readiness check: one aircraft’s GPS, battery or link state never masks or blocks another’s
- Precision landing on ArduCopter: AprilTag-marked pad, camera health check, and a defined hold-and-retry if the marker is lost
- Rally-point warning with one-click clear, so a stored rally point cannot silently redirect a return
- Failsafe override: the operator can still hold, reposition or land an aircraft after an onboard failsafe takes control
- A hangar cannot be deleted while an aircraft assigned to it is armed or airborne
CAPABILITY BY DESIGN
Depth where operations demand it.
TAC-GCS is more than a flight screen. Each operational layer remains usable as the mission grows—from one aircraft and operator to a connected fleet and common operating picture.
Mission command
Direct dispatch with automatic rerouting around active geofences, waypoint missions, survey grids, orbit/loiter, perimeter patrol loops and abort-to-hold behavior.
Fleet operations
Up to 10 simultaneous aircraft subject to license, mixing ArduCopter and PX4 and radio and network links, with independent telemetry, transport, mission, home, track and color state.
Operational mapping
Selectable maps, offline tile caching, address search, coordinates, distance, track history and camera field of view.
Airspace awareness
FAA UAS Facility Map ceiling overlays and live ADS-B traffic with automatic failover to two backup sources, alongside mission geometry.
Geofencing
Inclusion, exclusion and informational geometry, GCS enforcement, persistence and onboard AGL ceiling management.
TAK integration
Mutual TLS, QR and certificate enrollment, aircraft and command-post publishing, GeoChat, shared incident markers, linked units and emergency alerts.
KML intelligence
Stream large agency datasets (a 1.2 GB, 312,000-feature county parcel file loads in under four seconds), define an AOR, inspect attributes on demand and manage reusable layer profiles.
Aircraft readiness
Continuous pre-arm state, GPS/EKF health, battery condition, guided calibration and parameter management.
DFR hangar return
Per-aircraft hangars, one-button return and landing, hangar-as-home failsafe behavior and ArduCopter precision landing.
Flight monitoring
Every connected aircraft is watched for unexpected disarms, failsafe changes, critical onboard messages and self-initiated RTL or LAND, whichever one is in focus.
TAK INTEROPERABILITY
The aircraft becomes part of the common operating picture.
TAC-GCS operates as a TAK End User Device. Aircraft publish as distinct CoT tracks, the command post can publish at home, and linked units, alerts, GeoChat and shared markers remain available to the operator.
- Agency data packages and certificate enrollment
- Mutual TLS with Windows-protected private-key storage
- MIL-STD-2525-style linked-unit symbology
- Automatic reconnect and named server profiles
- QR enrollment: scan a code or load a photographed one, no camera required
- 36 NAPSG-style incident markers, published to the network
AIRCRAFT COMPATIBILITY
Open airframes.
Clear support boundaries.
ArduCopter 4.6.x
Mission, parameter, geofence, calibration and precision-landing workflows are engineered around ArduCopter.
PX4 v1.17
Arming, take-off, flight modes, missions including loop patrol and survey, dispatch, orbit, RTL and return-to-hangar. Firmware is detected automatically per aircraft, so ArduCopter and PX4 fly in one fleet. Parameter, calibration and precision-landing tools remain ArduCopter features.
ArduPlane
Mode decoding is supported. Copter-shaped mission, parameter, fence and calibration workflows require care.
Built-in SITL profile
A self-contained interface training aid. It does not transmit MAVLink or replace flight validation.
DETAILED FEATURE REFERENCE
The system behind the screen.
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01Connectivity
Serial/USB, UDP and MAVLink-over-WebSocket; several SiK radios at once, one per aircraft; per-aircraft transport memory; IPv4/IPv6 fallback; heartbeat and link-loss monitoring, with a lost link affecting only that aircraft.
02MAVLink
Outbound MAVLink 2 command and mission traffic with selective MAVLink 1 compatibility; inbound MAVLink 1 and 2 parsing with CRC validation.
03Dispatch
Search by address, decimal coordinates or what3words with a choice of Nominatim, Google, HERE or Amazon Location geocoding; dispatch an aircraft with HOLD, LOITER, LAND or RTL on arrival; automatic rerouting around active geofences.
04Mission planning
Create, edit, reorder and upload waypoint missions; lawnmower survey generation; orbit and counted or infinite patrol loops.
05Safety controls
Named pre-arm failures, explicit command confirmation, system-level emergency hotkeys with conflict warnings and safe remapping, held-key repeat protection and tracked parameter changes.
06Telemetry
Artificial horizon, AGL/MSL altitude, speed, heading, climb, battery, GPS, link quality, timer, MAVLink log and post-flight BIN analysis.
07TAK / CoT
Plain TCP or mutual TLS, data-package import, certificate and QR enrollment, profiles, auto-reconnect, linked-unit symbology, local unit aliases, NAPSG-style incident markers and event logging.
08Local resilience
Offline map tile cache, built-in voice alerts without a cloud service, offline license enforcement after a one-time activation and a self-contained interface training profile.
09Airspace & traffic
FAA UAS Facility Map ceiling overlays; live ADS-B traffic from a primary source with two automatic backup sources and a live / backup / off status indicator.
10DFR hangar & return
Per-aircraft hangar assignment bound to the flight controller hardware; one-button return and landing, including from a remote landing site; hangar set as the aircraft’s home point; surveyed pad elevation; rally-point warning; failsafe override; ArduCopter precision landing with marker-loss handling.
11Flight monitoring
Continuous per-aircraft detection of unexpected disarms, failsafe flag changes, critical onboard messages and autonomous RTL, LAND, SMART_RTL or BRAKE entry, independent of which aircraft is in focus.
OPERATOR-FIRST SAFETY
Fast does not mean casual.
TAC-GCS surfaces aircraft readiness, names failing pre-arm conditions and uses deliberate confirmation for high-consequence commands. Emergency keyboard controls are registered at the operating-system level and remain available when a mouse or interface path cannot be relied upon, and every connected aircraft is monitored for failsafes and unexpected events.
DFR return-to-hangar, precision landing, PX4 support and multi-radio operation are verified in ArduPilot and PX4 simulation; field validation on production aircraft is in progress. Operations remain subject to agency policy, aircraft configuration and applicable aviation regulations.
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