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Date/Time

Action

July 7

Aircraft Assembly

  • Jetson system preparation

  • Amy Hu Need to verify the CV system is working by Friday middle of the day

  • If Jetson can’t be tested and verified as working by Friday, the flight test won’t happen, and we will put the flight test to next week

July 8

Pre-flight Preparation

July 9, 10 am

Required persons for preflight preparation show up at bay

Flight test lead breifly assign task for preparation work

July 9, 11 am

Flight brief from flight test lead

July 9, 11: 15am

Lunch break

July 9, 11: 45am

Loading onto the Car

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

July 9, 12:00

Drive to the test ground

July 9 12 - 3 pm

Flight Testing

July 9 3:15 pm

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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Owner

  •  Use Flight-Post Mortem to Debrief

ALL MEMBERS PRESENT

  •  Discard of damaged batteries

  •  Discharge used batteries for better longevity

Flight Test Debrief

Flight test rundown:

  • Motor test

  • Flew in loit, failsafed due to GCS disconnect (rfd900’s)

  • Turned off GCS failsafe in pilot control mode

  • Flew over, landed on, over-ground landing pads.

  • Moved landing pads

  • flew over, landed on, over-grass landing pads.

  • Tried auto-tune on battery 1.

    • atune completed

    • thrust loss on 3

    • gps / compass glitch

    • “landing” on battery failsafe (3v/cell)

  • Tried auto-tune on battery 2

    • atune completed

    • landed & saved

Flight Test Post Mortem

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