2023-11-04 Flight Tests

• Pegasus Sensor Testing Flight

  • Test rangefinder and optical flow sensor on monster mount are functional

  • a step toward all hardware end to end Pegasus test

• Pegasus ESC Telemetry and High Frequency Logging

  • Test ESC Telemetry

  • Log high frequency flight logs for FFT and notch filtering

  • This should put us on track for a fair comparison of four vs six batteries for an upcoming flight test

• Houston Autonomy Camera Payload Flight

  • Fly camera over landing pad to gather more data for CV

  • required for model training progression

Flight Test was requested on Oct 31st as a part of AEAC runup plan by @Daniel Puratich .

• Approval from team for the flight test

  • Discussed in 2023-10-31 AEAC 2024 Sync

  • Discord thread made and test doc made by @Daniel Puratich

• Week before checklist

• Morning-Of & Pre-departure Checklist run through

• Gather all flight test goers at the bay before briefing

• Pre-departure briefing in bay by FTC

• Pre flight briefing at flight site

• Flight Test

• debrief

List contains all possible human resources available for flight test support! Please add yourself to this if you want to go to the flight test and follow the format!

• @Daniel Puratich

  • Role (what you will do at the flight test):

    • Flight Test Lead

    • Flight Test Director

    • Safety

    • Documentation Director

    • Electrical

  • Justification (why you’re qualified)

    • TC Basic

    • US HAM

    • Exec Director

    • Flight test Requestor

  • Availability (times on this date you can be at flight test)

    • All day

    • here 8am

• @Georgia Vachon Westerlund

  • Role

    • Photography

    • Ops support

    • Mech support

  • Justification

    • Ops Lead

    • Mech Member

  • Availability

    • All day

• @Emma Chan

  • Role

    • Ops support

    • Photography!!

  • Justification

    • Ops Member

    • EFS Member

  • Availability

    • All day

• @Yuchen Lin

  • Role

    • flight test support

  • Justification

    • EFS member

  • Availability

    • all day

• @Nathan Green

  • Role

    • Pilot

    • SDC Driver

    • Mechanical

    • Systems integration

  • Justification

    • Basic certificate

    • Mech lead

  • Availability

    • not filled out …

• @Hardy Yu

  • Role

    • Flight Test Coordinator

  • Availability

    • All day

    • here 9:45am

• @Mihir Gupta

  • Role

    • Autonomy Representative

  • Justification

    • Autonomy Lead

  • Availability

    • not filled out …

    • here 9am

• Jacky

  • Autonomy

  • Please fill this out as others have above!

• @Neel Patel

  • did not fill out in advance …

• SDC Rav4

  • Booked by @Daniel Puratich 11/2/2023 for @Nathan Green to drive

• SDC Dodge Caravan

  • unavailable, booked by Teertstra

• @Georgia Vachon Westerlund

  • has a vehicle but would prefer not to use it

• @Neel Patel

  • minivan, 6 people total

WRESTRC Booked, see Calendar , for Pegasus flight .

Worst case we do 43°28'23.4"N 80°34'01.8"W as subject to weather constraints regarding timeline for Pegasus.