@Aidan Bowers (Deactivated)

Feb 22, 2023

WRESTRC, Mar 11, 2023 12:00-6:00pm

• Validate fixed wing flight control and stability

• Validate basic RTL functionality.

• Verify transition

• Collect Preliminary data on battery life.

• Houston setup validation and control validation

Yes

@Dhruv Upadhyay

Flight Test Lead

• Creating documentation

• Booking the test flight

• Creating a thread in #flight-staging

@Anthony Luo

 Pilot in Command

• Aircraft preparation

• Filling out documentation

@Megan Spee

Secondary Pilot

• Aircraft preparation

• documentation

@Hardy Yu

Safety

• Making sure everyone is safe

• Bringing Med kit

• Site survey during aircraft setup

• Emergency Procedure Executor

@Megan Spee @Anthony Luo

Pilot Monitoring

• Assist pilot with communication, telemetry, readbacks, etc.

• Provide pilot advice, act as visual observer as required

• The other pilot will assist on the current pilot on monitoring

@Hamza Ali

Media

• Take photos / videos for marketing or analysis

@Megan Spee @Daniel Puratich

Aircraft Technician

• Aircraft Setup

• Systems Monitoring

@Alison Thompson

Mech Rep & Cornflakes Project Manager

@Nolan Haines

EE Technician & DMM Overload

@Daniel Puratich

EE Rep & Emergency Procedure Executor

@Hardy Yu

Flight Test Coordinator

@Andrew Wright

Doing Capacity Assignments

@Justin Joseph

@Joseph Bagheri

@Anthony Luo

Personal Car

With Cornflakes

@Cornflakes

@Daniel Puratich

@Megan Spee

Personal Car

@Alison Thompson @Nolan Haines @Andrew Wright

@Joseph Bagheri

Personal Car

@Dhruv Rawat @Hamza Ali @Hardy Yu

@Justin

Fixed Wing Flight

Aircraft is able to fly in a fixed-wing configuration without issue

Cornflakes should be ready to fly, as outlined by all pre-flight checks

Did not execute

Quad-to-Fixed transition

Aircraft is able to successfully perform the transition from quad to fixed wing flight, and back.

Cornflakes should be ready to fly, as outlined by all pre-flight checks

Did not execute

Battery Life

Information on battery voltage/capacity is collected throughout the flight

Proper battery capacity recording and monitoring

New batteries remained balanced, but we didn’t fly too much to measure this

Quad Yaw Authority

Aircraft is responsive to yaw input in quad mode

Minimum yaw rate of 90deg per second

Was Tested.

Houston Setup Validation

Validate Houston has the correct setup after crashing from last flight test

Components on Houston are working and Houston is responsive to the control

Did not execute

Feb 26, 2023 (due)

Aircraft Assembly: @Alison Thompson

• Subframe assembly

• Wing assembly

Mar 3, 2023 (due)

Aircraft Assembly: @Alison Thompson

• Control surface design and construction

• Motor protection design and construction

• Aircraft frame assembly

Mar 5, 2023 (due)

Electrical Repairs: @Daniel Puratich

• Replace/fix damaged PDB

• Fix/Replace damaged ESC

Mar 9, 2023 (due)

Harnessing: @Daniel Puratich

• Finish wiring new aircraft

Mar 9, 2023

Pre-flight Preparation: @Aidan Bowers (Deactivated) / @Hardy Yu

• Ensure Incident Procedures, driver lists, etc. are completed

• Ensure all items in Week-Before and Day-Before checklist are complete

Mar 10, 2023

Pre-Flight Systems Review:

• Review all systems, and complete checklists to ensure systems are functioning as expected

Mar 11, 2023 9:00am

Pre-Departure Preparation:

• Complete all pre-departure checklist items

Mar 11, 2023 10:45am

Flight brief from flight test lead

• Outline what is being tested, responsibilities of all participants, incident procedures, and general coordination.

Mar 11, 2023 11:30am

Loading onto the Car

Take your water bottle with you. Go washroom before we leave!

Mar 11, 2023 11:45pm

Drive to the test ground

Mar 11, 2023 12:00-3:00pm

Flight Testing

Test #1

Quad mode takeoff/landing w/ flat mounts

• assert that system is stable & both pilots are comfortable with the controls.

Test #2

Quad mode YAW control w/flat mounts

• Test to see how much yaw control we have, which is basically the drone correctly responds to our left/right instruction

• Success if drone give correct respond and appropiate yaw throttle

• The test is first done without wings then with wings

Test #3

Quad mode takeoff/landing w/angled mounts

• similar test with angled mounts, this should give more throttle on yaw

Test #4

Quad mode yaw control w/angled mounts

• first done without wings then with wings

Test #5

Buddy box

• control handover in all altitude

• both pilot have the control to the rc link

• After one pilot delivers the control, the other pilot should has the control of the drone

Test #6

Battery VS Flight time measurement. Recharge batteries if needed

• Measure the amount of the time the batteries were used in the previous tests and come out with an estimation of batteries life

• we probably need to go back to bay in this process to recharge batteires for an hour since we don’t have spare ones

Houston Test

While batteries are under charging, the group of ppl on wrest rc can conduct the test for Houston

Test #7

Transition & Fixed Wing Flight (brief, 1 circle)

• Trasition will take place in a straight line

• After the trasition is done, the drone should fly in fixed wing for one circle, the return to quad mode

• during this process, making sure the drone maintain altitude and flight forward while avoid other people

• TODO: the flight path needs to be determined

Test #8

Transition & Fixed Wing Flight second pilot

• repeat everything with second pilot

Test #9

Fixed wing “waypoint” navigation

• Setup a destination on mission planner and run the drone in autopilot

• Wait is the fixed wing or quad? I suppose this should be quad.

• drone maintain altitude all the time

• TODO: the waypoint needs to be determined

Test #10

Quad Mode RTL

• Quad mode to RTL. Start close and then move further away.

• to see if it autoland

Test #11

Fix wing in a whole circle

• Once again, we are looking for checking the drone responds correctly to our control in fix wing. Fly in a whole circle under fix wings will be tested

Test #12

Transition to fix wing then RTL

• Fly the drone away-> transition to fix wings-> RTL

• we expect the drone transition to quad and autoland

• but this is risky and we don’t know what’s gonna happen. Also the batteries may not support us to do this test, so this might move to 18th flight test

Mar 11, 2023 3:30pm

Debrief

@Alison Thompson @Dhruv Upadhyay @Nolan Haines @Hardy Yu @Daniel Puratich @Anthony Luo @Megan Spee

No damaged batteries