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Date/Time	Action
03 Mar 2023	Aircraft Assembly Houston should be ready to go with the RFD900x as well as with any relevant hardware for testing ZP
03 Mar 2023 9pm	Pre-flight Preparation Ensure checklists for Houston Ensure all items in checklist are followed
04 Mar 2023 9am	Flight brief from flight test lead
04 Mar 2023 10am	Loading onto the Car Take your water bottle with you. Go washroom before we leave!
04 Mar 2023 10am	Drive to the test ground
04 Mar 2023 10am-2pm	Flight Testing
04 Mar 2023 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

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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 (Frostedflakes) 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
We didn’t drain a full battery
- So we did not test battery life
- This was another goal of the flight test that wasn’t listed

Warning

We crashed into snow and there was no liquid protection
- Including RCA for crash
- We did not know what to do when the crash occurred
Flight test didn’t validate anything
- This flight test cost us a ton of money and didn’t validate anything
  - We didn’t test the ZP PPM
  - We didn’t test range (which was already tested)
- Clearer flight test plan should have been done in advance
  - We made out 2km test waypoint mission on the spot

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Hamza Ali Discharge batteries

Hamza Ali Interpret logs of flight test (Try to get some battery life metrics ??)

Wait for all electronics to dry out for a while

After drying we need to validate hardware and reassemble it

Put things away

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