On Friday, March 18, 2016 at 12:08:46 AM UTC-4, bumper wrote:
Would this be automated in some manner, or with say a green safe to land "descent profile" indication below a given safe altitude and allowable descent rate, etc. If, for some reason, the pilot has to abort a landing, say due to wind conditions or surface irregularities, would a vertical take off after a partial descent be possible?

You are on the right track testing with a model, as that should show up any issues.

Yes there will be automation of some flight maneuvers, after all this could not even be attempted if I was not relying on the multirotor controller for automation of heading and attitude during hover. Adding automated features beyond that is somewhat trivial, especially since I plan to have all control done with 'fly by wire'.

However, I am a firm believer in having a design that is as close to humanly flyable under as many failure modes as possible so I just don't want to start automating things too quickly.

This is a great thread and has given me much to consider, however I am going to have to start concentrating on getting people to pledge on the Kickstarter campaign. If it that campaign fails, I will have to find another way of building the 1/4 scale. So, I will have to slow down the posting here and get my brain into another gear now