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Pre-flight Preparation

Feel free to not come at 9 if you don’t have a lot workload

During this time get snack if needed

Flight brief from flight test lead

Loading onto the Car

Take your water bottle with you

Go washroom before we leave!

Drive to the test ground

Flight Testing

Debrief

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titleWeek Before Checklist
  •  Drone Registration
  •  Flight test location booked
  •  Pilot scheduled
  •  Test Plan (What we are testing)
    •  This should also include the flight path where applicable
  •  Subteam action items (for flight readiness)
  •  Transportation logistics finalized
    •  Booking SDC vehicles
    •  Assigning drivers
    •  Renting any needed equipment (trailer? generator? etc.)

🔧 Day-Before To-Do List

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titleDay Before Checklist
  •  Batteries Planned for (DON”T LEAVE CHARGING OVERNIGHT)
    •  Drone batteries & spares
    •  Transmitter batteries
  •  On-site kit together
    •  First Aid Kit
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    •  Battery Storage
    •  Ground station / Laptop
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    • Antenna / Receivers
    • Landing pads
    •  Transmitter
    •  Extra Water
    •  Power cords / Extension cables
    • Tap measure
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    •  Wrenches
    •  Allen keys
    •  KnivesScissors
    •  Tape
    •  Rope/stringDouble sided tape
    •  Zip/Velcro ties
    •  Radios
    •  Safety gogglesPliers
    •  Airfame assembled
    •  ESCs/flight controller wired
    •  Radio equipment tested
      •  Channel mappings
      •  Flight modes
    •  Motors tested
    •  Wiring secured (Harnessing)
    •  End to end test (neglecting props)
    •  All components not on the airframe that are required should be in the flight box (e.g. props & prop nuts)
    •  Airfame payload
      •  CV camera
      •  CV camera wire
      •  Raspberry Pi
        •  MicroSD card
        •  MicroSD card adapter
      •  Keyboard
      •  Mouse
      •  HDMI to micro-HDMI
      •  HDMI to USB
    •  Spare parts
      •  Props
      •  Airframe components (landing struts, arms, etc)
      •  Hardware to assemble these components
      •  Electronics
      •  ESCs
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  • Motors
  •  Flight controllers
  •  Receiver
  •  Flight Code Flashed
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  •  Ground station Software updatedCamera

↪️ Pre-Departure Checklist

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😎 Post-Flight Checklist

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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 Post Mortem

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  • It flew and did not crash

  • We got recording

    • We got footage

    • We need to do more analysis to confirm it wasn’t corrupted

  • We met success criteria

  • Good pilot trainning

  • All of our new sensor worked well

    • Flew well in the wind

    • New sensors were working as desired

Note
  • We didn’t follow the checklist too tightly and resulted in us having to go back to grab Houston props when we were at WRESTRC on the 19th.

    • We kind of ignored this checklist

Warning
  • , Was kind of rushed and scheduled at the same time as other flight test

    • Added extra work onto preparing for frosted flakes flight test

  • We probably need a new landing gear

    • Our current one worked but was a little scuffed, but worked well

Warning
  • No injuring and no damage

RCA for Red Items

Create a RCA and keep it as a child page.

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Child pages (Children Display)

Action Items

  •  Review Footage R D

Other Resources

Booking WRESTRC Field

How to Book the Flight Grounds