These things should be performed the day before a flight for the hexacopter
Charging:
- Charge all 4 6-Cell LiPo batteries
- Charge all of the RC Radios
- Charge all the GoPro batteries
- Charge the Taranis
Mechanical:
- Verify landing gear operational
- Verify all motors are level
- Verify battery mount is properly attached
- Secure all electronics, sensors and antennas
- Verify and bring attachments
- Gopro gimbal
- Sony gimbal
- Egg grabber
- Egg dropper
- Ensure all propellers and propeller hardware is ready
Electrical:
- Ensure PDB functional
- Check ESC connection to motor, PWM, and PDB
- Connect GPS to Pixhawk
- Connect power to Pixhawk
- connect PPM from reciever to Pixhawk
Firmware
- Verify all sensors are calibrated
- Verify failsafes
- Verify arming sequence
- Verify ESCs are callibrated
- All motors should turn on at the same time and be at the same speed
- Motors should turn the correct direction
- Verify GPS fix
- Verify Compass
- Verify Radio link
- Verify motor response
- Move sticks on the Taranis and ensure motors react properly
- Verify tilting the airframe causes correct motors to spin up
- Verify switch mapping
- Killswitch
- Landing Gear
- Egg dropper/grabber
- Manual/autonomous
Tuning
- Tune roll
- Tune pitch
- Tune from hover
- Take off w/ tether
Video
- Range check
- Video Switch Check
Miscellaneous
- Verify and communicate flight plan
- Verify vehicle access (Rav or other)
- Print the Preflight and Flight Test checklists
- Print/Bring SFOC and emergency plans