Experimental versus computational determination of the dynamical model of a glider

In this paper we present and compare two air- craft model identification techniques that are easy to implement and suitable for various air- plane models, gliders comprised. One of them relies on flight data, while the second one uses a virtual model of the plane. To obtain the flight data, we propose a flight protocol that is simple to follow. Our analysis show that the methods find resembling results for similar airspeeds.