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📋 Overview

Requested by:

Anthony Luo / Yuchen Lin / Aidan Bowers (Deactivated)

Required Subteams

Firmware, CV, Mech

Requested Date

Summary & Goals

< status of project, what your flight test involves >

Approved?

Yes/No/Pending

👥 Required Persons During Test

Name

Role

Reason

📊 Success criteria

Tests

Success Criteria

Requirements

Outcome

Landing Pad Footage

We have footage of all the requirements from GoPro and PiCam

  • Takeoff & landing in quad

  • Flight over pads at different altitudes

  • Landing pads on different terrains

  • Obstacles in the frame

    • Trees, bags, etc.

  • Grouped landing pads

  • Was the test successful? What was achieved (or not achieved)?

Telemetry

Data is sent and received from the aircraft

  • Testing datastream over RFD900x

    • Characterize data rate & packet loss at various altitudes & distances over different terrain

  • Test connection stability around obstacles and terrain

Video Transmission

Stable, low latency video is received from the aircraft that a pilot can use for flight

  • Testing stability with lots of communication interference

  • Test stability at various altitudes & distances over different terrain

  • Test connection stability around obstacles and terrain

Check temperatures

It’s not too hot

  • Is it really really hot after flight?

🚩 Pre-Flight Test Checklist

Item

Owner

Function

  •  Batteries Charged

Anthony Luo

  •  RC_Link Charged

Anthony Luo

  •  Phoenix

Megan Spee

  •  Judie

Megan Spee

  •  Props ready

Megan Spee

  •  RF Comms ready

Andy Meng Yuchen Lin

  •  Pilot Free

Anthony Luo Megan Spee

  •  Flight Plan

Katherine Li

  •  Emergency Supplies (e.g. First aid kit)

Lowkey Andy

  •  Minipix setup for phoenix

  •  TBS Crossfire RC Link setup on new controllers

  •  VTX setup ready to fly FPV

  •  Ground station Antenna Poles & tape

  •  PiCam & GoPro ready with mounts

  •  RPi powered

  •  Radios

Anthony Luo

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  •  

  •  

🗺️ Flight Plans

Location: field by the James Downey Wy and Laurelwood Dr intersection

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  • Put the landing pads 10m away from each other?? (not sure what the competition requirements are for how close they’ll be, hopefully that’s reasonable)

    • Place it in a grassy area on the field (not too close to the shrubs/trees)

  • Get footage of the drone flying over the landing pads at a constant-ish altitude

    • Until the landing pads would go out of sight in the footage

      • get footage at low, medium, high altitudes

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  • Get footage of the drone flying upwards (just like flying up) over the two landing pads

    • Get footage of the drone landing on the blue landing pad

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  • Fly around the landing pad and upwards/downwards to get footage of landing pad + the “obstacles” at different altitudes

📚 Flight Test Debrief

Tip

  • Flew successfully.

  • have ~ some ~ gopro footage.

  • RFD900 tested?

  • Briefing started at 11, last car returned at 14:45.

Note

  • Footage may be corrupt?

  • Lost a picam.

  • FPV system did not work

  • Big Phoenix has some weird flight characteristics

Warning

  • minipix PDB smoked on last flight test. Big phoenix crashed.

  • Weather was not great.

  • Controls not clear. Big Judie crashed.

  • Walkie Talkies not working optimally. Only 2 working. No walkie talkie etiquette.

  • GoPro Battery died trying to get footage of landing pads on takeoff/landing. Picam also not attached at that point.

Info

Nov 13, 2022 - JUDIE RCA - Flight Tests - WARG (atlassian.net)
Nov 13, 2022 - Phoenix RCA - Flight Tests - WARG (atlassian.net)

Inventory Recap

Item

number affected

notes

10x4.5 green propeller

2

1 chipped on phoenix, 1 fully snapped on Judie. Judie flew with 1 prop already chipped slightly

look into getting more props?

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Judie wing

1

Aileron very loose on both sides, mounting plate slightly snapped

Judie nose cone

1

fully smashed

~ gone ~

Phoenix legs

3

broke on impact

printing more

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Phoenix arms

4

all 4 bent downwards

wil try bending back

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Tube drone elevator

1

detached from horizontal stabilizer

fix with tape

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Tube drone aileron

1

broken close to fuselage

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Minipix 2-12S PDB

1

Smoked while flying on 5s big phoenix.

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PiCam

1

Camera came off of the picam module while landing.

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xt60-xt90 adapter

1

Solder on joint ripped apart on crash

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Flight Recaps

Judie & Landing pad footage

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RFD 900 Comms

  • documentation soon

Phoenix Debug

  • phoenix unstable flight?

Operations Debrief

Weather Protection

  • a lot of stuff got wet!

Preparation

  • need more of that

  • Many things forgotten

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Flightline Debrief

Safety / S.O.P / Emergency Procedures

  • safety procedures need to be followed.

  • we will update and revise our SOP → every member should read this.

  • Pilots should brief each other on terminology & controls before flying.

    • people not flying should follow instructions of pilots.

Flight Line Roles

  • Everyone should know what their task is to reduce the amount of “standing around”.

  • Being a “helping hand” is ok.

General Thoughts

  • modularity of nosecone - body is very nice .

  • pls stop cut hand open → conall

  • pretty damn cold - taim

  • cold - ayoung

Dealing with the cold

  • proper footwear (boots?)

  • try and have as much stuff put together as possible?

  • warming up in car?

  • Towels