Devlog 3 - Flight Simulation Overhaul, Data Trimming, and Flight Event Detection!

Overview

Spent more time improving FlightScope’s flight data pipeline, with a focus on making the test flights more realistic, trimming extra idle data, and detecting key flight events more reliably.

What’s New

Reworked the flight simulator to generate more realistic telemetry, including pre-launch idle, boost, coast, parachute descent, and post-landing idle.
Added acceleration support throughout the database and telemetry pipeline.
Implemented automatic detection and annotation for launch, burnout, apogee, parachute deployment, and landing.
Trimmed pre-launch and post-landing idle data so plots focus on the active flight window.
Regenerated test flights with updated simulation parameters.

Challenges

Getting event detection to work reliably took some tuning, especially with noisy acceleration data. Landing detection also needed a little extra care so the plots would stop cleanly at touchdown instead of including a lot of extra idle data.

Next Steps

Tune detection thresholds more easily from the UI.
Add tests for the event detection logic.
Continue improving the database and telemetry handling.

FlightScope is really coming along! I’m excited to see where this project takes me until the next devlog.