2022-10-02 Meeting Notes

2:00

Phoenix

Aaron

Phoenix Summary

• Mass produce Phoenix parts once PID tuning rig is tested with the current body design

• Mech meeting this morning building new phoenix body with mounting holes for PID tuning rig. PID tuning brackets also printed and ready to be used

Next steps:

• Check in with firmware to make sure they're ready to start tuning near the end of the week (Dependent on the PID tuning rig being done)

• Get WARG transport Canada account to register Phoenix for eventual outdoor test flights

~5:30

Conops Planning

Aidan

Planning and meetings for initial competition aircraft completed

• Went generally well

• Breaking up into groups was good, but the lecture hall style was not ideal for it

• People tended to talk about designs, not the topic at hand. We needed to structure the discussion better.

• This should have been scheduled before the conops even came out so that we were ready the day they were released.

  • Same can be said for the bootcamp recruitment. Having stuff ready a week before they came would have been incredibly helpful

• Ideas submission format was not great

Next steps:

• Create a document outlining the intended airframe design for the team. Hamza will do this

• Start creating timelines/deadlines for the various projects associated with the competition (and put them together)

• Start drafting conops report

Pilot training

Andy

• Happening as we speak. Trying to do weekly practice flights

RF equipment

Andy

• New vtx equipment selected and to be ordered. Initial testing with the RF900 through mavlink and pixhawk was successful.

IMACS

Khang

• Outlined timelines to CV team (GUI layout done by end October, Telemetry integration by end of year, whole system done by end Jan)

• Need to get info on the telemetry pipeline for CV development

Pheonix

Conell

• Focused on development of pheonix, mostly from the mechanical side