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Date/Time

Action

Aircraft Assembly

Houston should be ready to go with the RFD900x as well as with any relevant hardware for testing ZP

9pm

Pre-flight Preparation

  • Ensure checklists for Houston

  • Ensure all items in checklist are followed

9am

Flight brief from flight test lead

10am

Loading onto the Car

Take your water bottle with you. Go washroom before we leave!

10am

Drive to the test ground

10am-2pm

Flight Testing

2:15pm

Debrief

🧯 Aircraft Incident Procedures

Incident

Procedure

Crash

Outline the procedure for who will go to handle the aircraft in the event of a crash, what should be done, were emergency equipment is, etc.

Flyaway

Outline the procedure for flyaways. List relevant contact information for local authorities and plans of action to recover control of the aircraft

Configuration Error

Outline steps to take in the event of a configuration issue with the aircraft

Injury

Property Damage

🔧 Week-Before To-Do List

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Note
  • We weren't rigorous in our testing methodology

  • It was difficult to view the ground-station due to glare and short usb-cable to antenna tower

  • Key to WRESTRC was forgotten and we had to go back

  • No safety briefing

  • Roles were not well defined

  • Timelines were not followed

    • and they were incorrect

  • Flight Controller configuration was not complete by the day before

  • Nothing was conformal coated

  • Houston was not registered and PIC phone number was not on the aircraft

  • Trusting the autopilot too much

    • not paying attention to the aircraft when near ground/people

  • No fire extinguisher

  • We messed up prop directions initially

  • The battery test was not added to the list of things to test

  • The entire premise of doing this RFD range test was misfounded

    • We had previously tested the RFD to 3km with worse antennas so the entire point of this range test was pointless

    • Last cornflakes Cornflakes (FrostedFlakesFrostedflakes) flight test had an RTL (Return to land)

      • though this occurred when it wasn’t flying…

  • ZeroPilot PPM didn’t get tested

    • We wanted to test this but it wasn’t done in time

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Hamza Ali Discharge batteries

Hamza Ali Interpret logs of flight test

Wait for all electronics to dry out for a while

After drying we need to validate hardware and reassemble it

Put things away

Other Resources

Booking WRESTRC Field

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