April 1st

If weather permitting:

• Quad mode up/down & yaw control test.

• Test different weathervaning & push motor usage for position hold.

• Test AHRS w/VN-300 if possible.

April 2nd

• Continuation of March 18th flight test:

  • Fixed Wing Validation

  • Continue rest of the tests

• “RTL” - set to QRTL (Return in Quad Mode only)

  • We tested this on Houston and it worked last flight test

• “CS1” Data collection

  • How much energy required to land/take-off, fly a certain distance, etc.

  • Get a much better idea on aircraft characterization as a whole

• Houston:

  • Get Houston ready

  • VTX with 5.8 GHz (unless 1.3 GHz transmitters is received)

  • Houston will carry second battery

  • FPV Validation with VTX

  • Run VTX Range test (with car, with drone, etc.)Energy usage data collection

  • no VN-300 (in case we crash)

• Houston:

  • 1.3ghz VTX w/OSD on downward facing camera.

  • Footage to be recorded with groundstation receiver.

• auto-land precision

  • How close to target can Ardupilot land given the waypoint, whether CV will be required

  fixed wing flight battery drain

  • Estimating based on the health of the current battery to extrapolate to new/healthier batteries

• guided flight mode & auto missions

  • Try different fixed-wing modes to determine what is more/less relevant

  • Test series of waypoint-following by drone

April 8th

• Icarus Frame first flight (reach goal)

  • Quad mode testing - UP and DOWN

  • Basic roll, pitch, yaw characterization and control

  • Progressively move towards transition and fixed-wing validation

• If not, then CS2 with “Cornflakes”

April 9th

If needed:

• footage for Proof of flight.

April 16th

Hold for: Icarus CS2

• Test out QR code based upload of waypoints re Task 1

• Plan out full path for waypoints Aidan Bowers (Deactivated) (SysInt’s already made comp-sim plan)

April 22ndContinue tasks from CS2

Comp flightline (if possible) run through

April 29th

1 week before comp - full systems check & second full comp flightline run through