Use different GCS software with a sigle UAV

Ground Control Software Mission Planner
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I was looking information about this topic but I have not found anything. I wonder if is it possible to use more than one GCS with a single drone. For example, I am trying to configure a Pixhawk 2.1 Cube with APM Planner 2.0 on Mac OS X, but I am having a few problems with the compass calibration, so I could try to configure the quadcopter on a Mission Planer on Windows 10 and then use APM Planer on the laptop on the field.

Is this possible or, on the other hand, is this foolish?

Thanks.

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It’s perfectly OK to use one GCS for config and another in the field.
I frequently use QGroundControl and APM-Planner2 - they both have the same effect on the craft, all the parameters are the same.
I find QGC good for config, tuning and missions, APM-Planner does great graphs of logs - but that’s all just my preference.

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I had similar experience with ArduPlane, I had problem with configuration of gyroscope, in MP there were no offset for me, so I calibrated it in QGC, and successfully used MP later.

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