Nov 13, 2022 Flight Test

Owned by Aidan Bowers (Deactivated)
Last updated: 2023-01-21 by Anonymous
4 min read

Flight test for <Nov 13. 2020>

 

 Overview

Requested by:

@Anthony Luo / @Yuchen Lin / @Aidan Bowers (Deactivated)

Required Subteams

Firmware, CV, Mech

Requested Date

Nov 13, 2022

Summary & Goals

< status of project, what your flight test involves >

Approved?

Yes/No/Pending

 

 Required Persons During Test

Name

Role

Reason

Name

Role

Reason

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Success criteria

Tests

Success Criteria

Requirements

Outcome

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

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

 

@Anthony Luo @Megan Spee

 

@Katherine Li

 

Lowkey Andy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

@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

        Low

  • 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 tested?

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

  • Footage may be corrupt?

  • Lost a picam.

  • FPV system did not work

  • Big Phoenix has some weird flight characteristics

Inventory Recap

 

Item

number affected

notes

 

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?

 

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

Phoenix arms

4

all 4 bent downwards

 

wil try bending back

 

Tube drone elevator

1

detached from horizontal stabilizer

 

fix with tape

 

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

Flight Recaps

Judie & Landing pad footage

 

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

  •  

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