2024-10-11 FTC Sync

Attendees

• @Nathan Green

• @Georgia Westerlund

• @Daniel Puratich

• @Jerry Tian

  • will be here next term

• @Sam Zhang

  • unsure sitedness

• @Evan Janakievski

  • likely onsite or close enough for flight tests

Preferred Attendees

• FTCs

  • ftc being a path into pilotting

• pilots

• other attendees welcome, but this may not be applicable

Topics

• last FT was really bad

• need people to stay on following up with people on tasks and coming up with timelines

• Your not expected to be the individual contributor for a project, but you need to manage the project. Distributing tasks for others and foreseeing what needs to be done is the role.

• comp sync is a good time to go hard here

• documenting basic procedures

  • Quick start guide for houston

  • Pegasus connection stuff

    • setting up mavlink over RC

  • controller configuration stuff

    • anni has a doc for this but it’s out of date

• asking for help

  • force way into doing stuff

• keeping convos going is most important

• Does @Yuchen Lin want to be an FTC going forward? Hasn’t coordinated any FTs this term iirc despite being onsite.

  • will folllow up offline

• Review of Flight Test Coordinator ?

• Sync on houston roles