Flight test for <Nov 13. 2020>

📋 Overview

Requested by:	Anthony Luo / Yuchen Lin / Aidan Bowers (Deactivated)
Required Subteams	Firmware, CV, Mech
Requested Date	13 Nov 2022
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

🗺️ Flight Plans

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

Getting footage of 2 landing pads (One blue, one orange):

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
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

Get footage of one blue landing pad placed 2m, 5m, 10m away from shrub(s) or tree(s) (if you could get footage with different clusters of shrubs/trees, that would be great)

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

📚 Flight Test Debrief

Flew successfully.
have ~ some ~ gopro footage.
RFD900 maybe tested?
Briefing started at 11, last car returned at 14:45.

Footage may be corrupt?
Lost a picam.
FPV system did not work

minipix PDB smoked on last flight test.
Weather was not great.

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
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
Phoenix arms	4	all 4 bent downwards
Tube drone elevator	1	detached from horizontal stabilizer
Tube drone aileron	1	broken close to fuselage

Minipix 2-12S PDB	1	Smoked while flying on 5s big phoenix.
PiCam	1	Camera came off of the picam module while landing.
xt60-xt90 adapter	1	Solder on joint ripped apart on crash