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🟩 Part delivery is much slower than expected, pushing back testing and therefore project deadlines
Members miss deliverable due to increased work load
Schedule didn’t allow for multiple iterations to occur, now we’re stuck with a less-than-ideal product
🟩 The drone isn’t competitive
The drone crashing during competition
battery level low
Mechanical Airframe Failures
Unanticipated electromagnetic shielding/interference on the frame, requiring electronics to be placed elsewhere
Bolts missing/coming off during flight
Landing gear fails on impact
Barbies are not secured properly in flight
Boards are not secured in flight
Water gets into the avionics compartment
Parts disconnect during flight (wings, tail)
Control surfaces fail
Motor failure
Sensors dislodged
Heat causing deformation of 3D printed parts
Ground looping
Mechanical Ground Station Failures
Antenna towers fall over
Wires disconnect in inaccessible regions of the tower
Devices and equipment
Electronic Failures
Wires disconnecting
Boards shorting
static electricity (possible ground plane)
Inclement weather during flight (limit flight window)
Antenna Brownout (search pattern)
hardfault (failover)
Batteries not charged
Software Failures
Sens failure (glide)
autopilot failure (pilot takeover)
fly by wire failure
telemetry lost (follow VFR & divert)
controls/PID failure
RC link lost (divert and glide)
Landing Pad not found
heading lost
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