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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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  • 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

    Model

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Flight Test Post Mortem

Tip

  • 5W vtx delivers clear video.

  • Landing pad detection model works pretty well.

  • Autotune on YAW completed successfully twice.

Note

  • Got lots of messages about Opflow/Lidar health. GPS1 also failing configuration checks

  • Batteries had a LOT of sag (21V in flight recovering to 23V after)

Warning

  • Continually got GCS failsafe messages on first few flights.

    • RF interference was high in general - TPower on the tracer was up to 250mW at times, LOS < 100m away….

RCA for Red Items

Create a RCA and keep it as a child page.

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Child pages (Children Display)

5W VTX Performance

  • Noticed significantly better video transmission when landing in grass field south/south-east of skid pad.

    • No degredation in signal quality observed at all

      • comparable to fading to b&w and/or losing signal on 800mW.

Model Performance

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Autotune Performance

  • Auto-tune completed successfully twice

Sensor Health

Battery Sag / Voltage

GCS Failsafe

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