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PITCH - CoPilot for iOS by FreeSkies, Inc. offers DJI Phantom 3 Professional, Advanced, and Inspire 1 owners an intuitive way to visualize and plan flight paths, in order safely and reliably deliver accurate, high quality video.

MENLO PARK - Available September, the CoPilot app for iOS by FreeSkies, Inc. will offer DJI Phantom 3 Professional, Advanced, and Inspire 1 owners an intuitive way to visualize and plan flight paths, in order to safely and reliably deliver accurate, high quality video.

Drones are increasingly becoming a part of mainstream electronics, with applications ranging from enterprise hardware to film production tools. With recent media coverage of drones crashing into the White House lawn and grounding firefighting planes, it is clear that there is still much to be done in the areas of safety and reliability. The CoPilot app offers drones enthusiasts and novice pilots, safety and reliability through a unique user interface. By focusing on the aerial data, photography and videography, we can give users complete creative control, while making drones easier and safer to fly.

Using the application, you can frame your video by setting waypoints with an intuitive 3D map interface, and use them to produce professional-grade video without ever needing to manually pilot the drone. Once the frames have been set, the application will automatically guide your drone along the 3D path, while manipulating the vehicle’s orientation and gimbal pitch to perfectly match each frame. CoPilot greatly reduces the possibility of user and piloting error by automating complex functions, from takeoff to touchdown. The entire planning interface is contained within the application, making it possible to plan and pre-visualize the intended video well before arriving at the site. With the FreeSkies CoPilot, you can focus on producing video, and not flying the drone.

The FreeSkies CoPilot takes advantage of equipment you already own, and only requires your DJI platform, controller, and an iPad to operate. It interfaces with the Phantom controller via USB, allowing it to relay GPS and telemetry data from the application to the quadcopter. Once the app has been connected and a mission has been loaded, the drone will be controlled autonomously, but with further capability for manual, on-the-fly adjustment. CoPilot offers users a unique pre-visualization and flight planning system, fully autonomous control capabilities, safety and reliability in flight, and supports the DJI Phantom 3 Professional, Advanced, and Inspire on all iPads running iOS 9 or above. The technology behind the FreeSkies CoPilot is currently Patent Pending.

Silicon Valley tech startup, FreeSkies, announces the September release of its flagship iOS application, the FreeSkies CoPilot, to make aerial data capture simple and accessible to everyone. For more information, please visit http://www.FreeSkies.org.

ABOUT FREESKIES
FreeSkies, Inc. was started in the Fall of 2014 by 3 aerospace engineering undergrads from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Andy Putch, Jay Mulakala, and Ankur Mehta. They recognized the rise in drone usage around the United States, but lack of focus on the photographers, videographers, and marketers attempting to capture high quality aerial video. After competing in several local competitions, FreeSkies was accepted to the Lightspeed Venture Partners Summer Fellowship program and has grown into a small team of engineers, designers, and developers. FreeSkies, Inc. was incorporated on June 1st, 2015. FreeSkies aims to make aerial data capture simple and accessible to everyone, with the FreeSkies CoPilot.

Media Contact:
Jay Mulakala
[email protected]
630-664-9292

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