Old Habits Die Hard - Open Source UAV, SITL in Docker, Mission Planner and MAV tools

This blog post contains my notes to run an instance of the Software In The Loop (SITL) flight simulator in Docker and how to connect Mission Planner to monitor and interact with vehicle status and data of flight during simulated missions. The entry also describes how to plan an arbitrary test mission through the flight plan interface offered by Mission Planner. The MAV Tools, a number of command-l