“…Path following of a fixed‐wing aircraft is not a new problem (Beard & McLain, ; Cichella & Xargay, ; Conte, Duranti, & Merz, ; da Silva & de Sousa, ; Jackson, Tisdale, Kamgarpour, Basso, & Hedrick, ). While most traditional work approaches the path following problem using algorithms based on PID control (Rhee, Park, & Ryoo, ), a number of newer techniques that take advantage of machine learning and other methods have also been proposed (Blauwe & Johnson, ; Chowdhary, Johnson, Chandramohan, Kimbrell, & Calise, ; Coates, Abbeel, & Ng, ). This work takes inspiration from path following techniques evaluated by Sujit et al .…”