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Need to select a pilot and start training regiment
Simulator time initially
foam planes with no autopilot that work well should be built
practice line of sight flying mostly
Daniel Puratich has de-assigned pilot for maiden role because POR seems to be maiden flight during W25 when I will be offsite.
Manasva Katyal put forward by Hardy
was an FTC
actual fixed wing pilot
Daniel Puratich to approach about trainning training and availability
likely to be here next term
Jerry Tian interested
will be here next tterm
what do we want to do with the fixed wing before comp 2025?
Maybe a bit early to be asking the question, but I guess if we're pushing to get maiden done is the reason just to ensure we can all focus on peggy 2 leading up to comp or is it because we wanna try to make more changes and improvements on it before vtol stuff?
before maiden
setting up ardupilot and sensors should be done fully before maiden
EE boards and EFS firmware
maiden
collect data on airfoil on the maiden
post maiden
could try the autonomy system in prep for comp 2026
I am really hoping with the fixed wing we can discover most of the problems/challenges with it just being on the ground.
Airfoil will be the big one we cant test on the ground i guess eh?
same w/ airspeed, range
Maiden flight should prolly include an autotune imo.
Integrating autonomy system seems excessive.is the long term path but not maiden
All electronics are for sure ground testable (hence me pushing for a copper bird type setup now).
The strapdown test will be nice here to prove out the power train
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