Alongside the Plotter and the Map we are researching ways to reduce the subjectivity in precision aerobatic flying and judging. A major part of this work is the PyFlightCoach collection of Python packages, which provide powerful tools for post processing flight logs.

Enabling the Automated Assessment of Precision Aerobatic Manoeuvres – Our first publication, was presented at the AIAA SciTech conference in January 2022. The paper describes a process of automatically identifying manoeuvres and elements in the recorded flight log, comparing the geometry to an automatically generated template, then presenting the comparison in a way that allows judging criteria to be applied.