Make sure to update the Title following the format “Jan 01, 2020 Flight Test”

• Transitioned

  • We need to check logs to verify if it was in fixed wing only mode

  • We were at least partially into fixed wing mode

• Control Over Aircraft in quad mode

  • New power arch seems powerful enough

  • 12S motors have a lot of thrust so it’s movable with wings on

  • Maneuverable enough to land on a landing pad theoretically

  • Had enough Thrust to pull out of first failed transition

  • We went very fast in fixed wing mode - good velocity

  • Good fly by wire into the wind

• Most thorough test we have ever done of this ICARUS Class Aircraft

  • No sill mistakes in aircraft setup

  • We got useful data today

  • Successfully identified & resolved faults of previous flight test

• Most electronics survived

  • Motors, wiring, frame, and batteries took the brunt of the damage

• People knew what was happening on the flight line

  • We were organized

  • Nobody got hurt and we all were positioned desirably

  • Checklist and formalized process made everything very smooth

• We got significant quantities of media

  • Having Anni’s camera helped us with this

• We could’ve landed after doing one transition instead of going for more resulting in our crash

• Yaw was slow on the aircraft

• People should’ve brought gloves and had cold fingers preventing work

• Doing a proper cite survey

  • We crashed near training firefighters

    • Some saw the light’s of their fire trucks but didn't communicate as we assumed it was also seen by the pilots

  • We shouldn't fly too far away from our area

    • This is tough to meet because our aircraft flies very fast

  • We thought we had the entire area booked, but there were others present

    • We should be more careful in the future

• Checklist and steps for crash procedure

  • There was some debate over radio following the crash due to disagreement over how crashes should be handled

  • Formalized failure action plans

  • This is also safety critical in case things are on fire

    • Since we have batteries on the nose cone this is a real possibility in this type of crash, we just got lucky in this case.

  • Would be nice to have a fly away checklist or procedure documented (though this was not an issue in this case)

• Landing when we have minor errors instead of continuing to fly

  • We continued to fly with incorrect pitch setting

• Formalized walkie talkie radio procedure

  • Talking over each other, unclear who is talking to who

  • Document on radio guidelines

    • Say name of who you are trying to talk to

  • When we say we’re taking off over the radio (something we asked PICs to do) we should have a process for if and when radio holders need to respond to that giving a go ahead

• We flew with pitch backwards in quad mode

• We need a class D fire extinguisher, and a normal fire extinguisher.

  • We got lucky the aircraft did not catch on fire with batteries mounted in the nose cone

• We crashed Frosted Flakes → See RCA on this

  • Entire frame destroyed, only thing mechanically is possibly one wing

  • 2 motors destroyed

  • Wiring destroyed

  • Both batteries destroyed

  • Sensitive electronics were salvageable and some others require

• See “RCA for No Go Call of Feb 19th Frosted Flakes”