2024-09-21 Pegasus 2 Maiden Flight
Requesting team: Directors
Items TBD:
Test Procedures/Test Cards
Sections for flightline team to fill out:
Incident Procedures, communication preferences.
Test Cards
Admin Preparation
Requested By | @Nathan Green |
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Sub-Team Review (To be checked once reviewed by sub-team representative) | Mechanical Electrical EFS Autonomy Operations |
Date of Request | Sep 7, 2024 |
Goal Summary | Successfully fly Pegasus 2 without major incidents Validate that all sensors and peripherals are working correctly Evaluate tune and potentially retune |
Status? | In PROGRESS |
Desired Airframe | Pegasus 2 |
Desired Date(s) | September 21st 2024 |
Testplan - to be filled out by requesting team
Notes
motor direction and order check → good to do because maiden voyage
stab hover
tuning? → maybe not neccessary, will need to retune in the future anyways so …
loiter, check all sensors worky, full throttle n pitch
proof of flight cannot be done yet because needs to be comp configuration
mavlink elrs range test?
up the loiter max speed (so we dont have to do that first time at comp agqin)
we should fly till we run outta batts, be nice to get flight time, we only have two sets, good to build flight hours on the frame
Necessary items:
Pegasus 2
Controller
Video receiver monitor
Video ground station
Batteries
Flight characteristics needed:
Comms / Support needed:
Attendees
Name | Phone # | Sub-team | Role |
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@Nathan Green |
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@Daniel Puratich |
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@Sam Zhang |
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@Alison Thompson |
| Mechanical | Mech lead |
@Georgia Vachon Westerlund |
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@Evan Janakievski |
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@Andrew Chai |
| Electrical | Attendee |
@Meghan Dang |
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@Megan Spee |
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Flightline Team
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Nathan Green |
| Pilot | Fly the drone |
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Pre-Flight Preparation
Checklists
Incident Procedures
Flight Test Timeline
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8:30 | Batt Charging Started |
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10:00 | Meet in bay |
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10:45 | Left for wrestrc |
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11:00 | Started setup and calibration |
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12:16 | Flights start |
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1:30 | Flight test complete |
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2pm | debrief starts |
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Flight test debrief report
Card 1 Test 1: Ground Setup
Card 2 Test 1: Takeoff in stabilize
Card 2 Test 2: Loiter for magfit
Card 2 Test 3: Autotune