Jesse G,
Up late running some processing and just saw this.... I have been using UGCS for about 8 months, starter on a phantom 3 pro, and since have moved to an inspire 1 pro with the x5 and a mavic. All work great with UGCS. The flight planning and terrain following option has given me incredibly consistent results compared to other options I tried like dronedepoly and pix4d capture. That was the main selling point for me along with the ability to capture RAW dng format imagery which isnt even an option in the ones I mentioned. One thing that disappointed me was that when I started with UGCS the planning software and app allowed you to trigger shots at any time interval which meant you could capture jpegs at about 1.5 seconds and dngs at about 3 seconds and after version 11 and the accompanying app version they made it limited to every 3 seconds for jpegs and 10 seconds for dngs as per DJIs and guidelines. I dont know why they would implement such a limitation when other developers like dronedeploy and pix4d ignore it. I even reached out to them and they told me that was a hardware limitation as per DJI. I found a work around for this using earlier versions but being on version 11 I lost some small functionality like double grid missions but it takes 2 seconds to copy a route and rotate it 90 degrees so not a big deal. I've had a couple other hiccups along the way but they're support team has always been helpful and reply within about a day. All in all I have been very happy with it as it does what other control platforms don't.
I've used Ground Station Pro and while it controlled the drones perfectly and was simple and had a good camera interface it falls short. The problem with it for me is that it keeps the drone facing in the same direction through all the flight paths so the drone is flying forward on the first line and then without turning goes sideways and then heads backwards down the next line. This can lead to some odd results since rollong shutter is then opposite for each line of photos next to each other and software accounts for RS heading in a forward direction. Also makes forward obstacle avoidance useless since over half the flight is flown backwards and sideways. Besides that it also means that to do a double grid oblique imagery flight plan I actually need to do 4 seperate flights to get all four sides at the oblique angle...with UGCS or even pix4d capture you only need 2 since the drone turns at the corners and always flies forward.
