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Mission Planner has a built-in utility for acquiring and sending RTK corrections. However, this method does not work reliably with newer GPS units. As a result this manual will cover a method of using QGroundControl to preform a survey-in of a location or set a pre-surveyed location. Then QGC will then be closed and mission planner Mission Planner will be used to pass the corrections through to the vehicle.

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  • Launch Mission Planner

  • Select “Setup” from the top menu bar

  • Go to the “Optional Hardware” section on the left column

  • Select “RTK/GPS Inject”

  • Select the COM port for the Base RTk GPS unit from the drop down menu

    • Select a baud rate of 115200

  • Check the “Inject MSG Type” and the
    Send GGA?” checkboxs

  • Leave the “M8P/F9P autoconfig” checkbox un-checked

  • Click “Connect”

  • The red boxes for Base, GPS, Glonass, Beidou, and Galileo should start to turn green

    • If the “Base” box and one other bx are green then corrections are valid and ready for transmission to the aircraft

  • Return to the “Data” screen

  • Connect to the vehicle using a telemetry or data radio modem

  • Verify the vehicle has an RTK Float or RTK Fix for the status of a GPS unit (as shown in the image below)

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