When will I fly again?

When will I fly again? I've been asking that question for a while now. After that expensive and silly mistake of loosing my Blade 300 CFX to some uncalibrated mass balancing, the wind of excitement was whiffed out of my spirit. I must say, this has allowed me to refocus my energies on the helicopter simulation model and how it should be modeled such that the research of the neural network algorithms could be easily prototyped and embedded into an autopilot software suite for HILS and flight testing.

I must say, I feel like I've made quite a bit of progress on this front. Even though my spirit is itching to get something flying in the sky, the notion that I'm getting closer to creating a simulation environment where these algorithms can be tested, explored and refined for flight testing. I'm also grateful that during this time, my company has agreed to fund my research and I now the ability to procure the items that I need to properly get this research off the ground in the few months' time.

Now that Ardupilot software suite and Pixhawk autopilot is going to be at the core of autopilot module that will be used during flight testing, the focus now is on creating a simulation environment that can ramp up the development efforts of the performing autonomous missions with the goal of having fault tolerant control mechanism evaluation in real-time.

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