Intro

• Purpose:

  • brief notes during comp as we try to figure out what we wanna do for these tasks to respond to dynamic situations.

• Related Notes:

  • Competition 2024 Task 1 Checklist

  • 2024 Competition Task 2 Checklist

• Table of Contents:

In-Meeting Aidan Notes ~6pm

Taken by Aidan Bowers.

Review events of the day

• Whole team was present at tents, as expected for tomorrow

• Can be no comms between team and flightline, they should be physically separate

  • Can help before / after the start of the flight window

• Today there was a bit of a rush through the checklists, we did them all but it was tight

  • Some of the checks are now redundant, as we checked them today and the drone will not be changed or move

Plan for task 1 execution

• Daniel will load barbies

• Daniel & Yuchen will take the drone to the runway

  • Yuchen will monitor for support, and phone Nathan

  • Daniel will plug in the drone, start lte, and upon confirmation press the safety switch to start the drone

  • Nathan will monitor GCS

• If we break things, we might want smile on the flight line

  • We aren’t expecting to crash, but we should be ready to repair if needed.

  • We wont swap the flightline team now

• If there is any issue with being unable to fly all 3 laps, we can RTL to come home early

• Hardy & Tong will make the flightline box easily available

• Will run the simulation for the entire flight

Plan for task 2 execution

• We should keep trying the flights to maximize our potential score - there is a lot of point deductions for errors, and it’s hard to know if we have not made errors until

• Antenna location:

  • One person will hold the antenna and point it in the direction of the aircraft, and will hold the dvr to make sure the antenna is pointed the right way

• When people are split the should be on a call

• We will try C

• Confirm with judges that we got all the points we wanted

• Flight Path:

Open

Questions for organizers

• Can we recover the drone to try task 2 again without flying back - if we wreck could we fix and try again

• Can the flightline team change between tasks

• Where does the flightline start/end, and where can we have equipment

Report

• There exists a report template

  • We just need to add text

• The strategy/flight plan is in this document

Evening Notes ~10pm

Taken By Daniel

• Notes

  • We got permission to park trailer overnight at competition.

  • Still holding roles in 2024-05-17 Competition Attendees Sync mostly.

    • Daniel and Yuchen primarily responsible for handling the drone when on the ground.

    • Hardy (or Smile if swap permissible for Task 1) and Tong share a monitor and manage VTX tower

    • Daniel and Yuchen share a monitor

    • Nathan on the drone always, Yuchen to help with GSO after takeoff.

  • CONOPs change via email at 9pm tonight informs us we have up to 45mins of flight time for task 1.

    • Some brief discussions looks like targeting two flights with two sets of batteries to use the full 45mins to ideally get up to six laps.

    • This will be reviewed with Nathan and rest of team in the morning.

• Delegations

  • Emma to lead to report effort.

    • Final Report Onedrive

  • Smile to lead printing out battery tools on 3d printer.

  • Smile, Hardy, & Tong to take lead on packing flight test box in morning for task 1

  • Daniel to ask questions to organizers in morning

  • Yuchen to ensure both sets of batteries ready for task 1 tomorrow

  • Nathan to simulate the new task 1 path to ensure encircling waypoint alpha is correct,

  • Smile Nathaniel Evan to ensure brand new set of props is installed on PEgasus.

• Questions for organizers

  • Can we recover the drone to try task 2 again without flying back?

    • if we wreck on our first attempt, can we fix and try again or are we done for?

  • Can the flight-line team change between tasks?

  • Where does the flight-line start/end, and where can we have equipment?

    • Can we put vtx on area near hanger or away from flight-line a bit.

  • Does switching batteries in task 1 cause us to lose our autonomy points?