Pathfinder Copilot is the operator interface for Skyline Nav AI's Pathfinder Edge. It plans missions, monitors flights in real time, and reviews past detections — single drone or swarm.

What Pathfinder Copilot does

The app pairs with a Jetson-based payload running pfa-edge. You connect over your local network, plan a mission, push it to the drone, and watch the flight as it happens. During the mission the app displays:

• Live camera feed with detector bounding boxes drawn on top.

• Drone position on a satellite map, with both raw GPS and the EKF-fused estimate plotted.

• Live telemetry — fused lat/lon, AGL altitude, GPS↔fused error, active fusion source, waypoint progress.

• Status of every on-drone subsystem (SSH, MAVLink, GPS, EKF, detector, VPS, and more).

• Cursor-on-Target (CoT) detection feed — markers from external sensors (e.g. ATAK) that drop straight into your mission as waypoints.

After the mission, the Review tab loads the recorded GPS path, fused-segment overlay, and detection images. From there, the Classifier matches each detection against your template library so you can label finds by type.

What Pathfinder Copilot does

Pick the mode at the top of the app:

• Single drone — one Jetson, one mission. The most common workflow. Plan, fly, review.

• Swarm — multiple drones flying coordinated coverage of a single field. Plan once, partition automatically across the fleet, push to all drones in parallel, monitor as a group.

What you'll need

• A Mac running the Pathfinder Copilot app (Apple Silicon).

• A Jetson-based drone running the matching pfa-edge build, configured to your network.

• The drone operator account credentials (username + password) — see Connecting to the drone.

• A Google Map Tiles API key with the Map Tiles API enabled — see Installation & first launch.

• A laptop and drone on the same network (LAN, mesh, or LTE bridge — anything routable to the Jetson over SSH).

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