AT409 Week 9 Report

 

11/02/2020

John Cox, Kaleb Gould, Jeff Hines Introduction:

            This week flight crew 1 participated in another round of mock search and rescue flights for William Weldon, made plans for maintenance operations, and reorganized our lab area.  Special Event

This week we had the privilege of helping update our programs media material. The highlights included a new fleet photo of our two C-Astral Bramors, an M600 Pro, a M210, and a Mavic 2 Pro. Each of these have a special place in our curriculum, with an appropriate mission set when they are not being used in the classroom. A strong representation of the diversity that our program brings was captured with action shots from the day. Lastly our professor, graduate students and some undergrads where interviewed for their experiences. We talked about the applications of unmanned aerial systems, where our graduates go and describing the things our students do in the program. This event was long needed and very important to appropriately represent what we do. 

Overview:

Tuesday 9/20 Flights:            

Flight crew 1 assisted once again in William Weldon’s research flights at the Purdue Wildlife Area (PWA). As always, Weldon acted as the search coordinator for the experiment while John and Kaleb were on the recovery team, and Jeff was on the search team using the Loc8 software. This week Weldon chose to use only the Loc8 software for the search forgoing the normal setup of using 2 search teams. The operations proceeded smoothly, with the only event of note being that the Loc8 software failed to locate the simulated missing person one the third flight after 2 scans; this was the first time sense crew 1 has been assigned to this mission that loc8 failed to find its target and that flight was subsequently aborted. This, as well as the metadata for the other flights are listed in the table below: 

Metadata
Date	10/20/20
Location	Purdue Wildlife Area
Vehicle	DJI Mavic 2 Pro
Sensor	CMOS
Data Set	1
Crew Information
Search Coordinator	William Weldon
PIC	Logan Jones
VO	Connor Cromwell
Loc8 Search Team	Jeff Hines (Flights 1&2), Joe Hammel (Flights 3&4)
Recovery Team	John Cox, Kaleb Gould

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John Cox, Kaleb Gould, Jeff Hines

Flight 1
Takeoff Time	10:39 AM
Landing Time	10:50 AM
Search Begin	10:52 AM
Loc8 Discovery	10:56 AM
Recovery Team Dispatch	10:57 AM
Recovery	11:01 AM
Flight 2
Takeoff Time	11:11AM
Landing Time	11:22 AM
Search Begin	11:23 AM
Loc8 Discovery	11:26 AM
Recovery Team Dispatch	11:27AM
Recovery	11:37AM
***Flight 3 ***
Takeoff Time	11:46 AM
Landing Time	11:58 AM
Search Begin	12:00 PM
Loc8 Discovery	N/A
Recovery Team Dispatch	N/A
Recovery	N/A
Flight 4
Takeoff Time	12:28 PM
Landing Time	12:39 PM
Search Begin	12:41 PM
Loc8 Discovery	12:42 PM
Recovery Team Dispatch	12:43 PM
Recovery	1:00 PM

Table 1: 9/20 Flight Metadata

*** Loc8 Failed to ID target after 2 scans. Mission Aborted at 12:17 PM. Weldon personally recovered the target and hid it again. *** Friday 9/23 Flight:  

Flight canceled due to inclement weather conditions. 

Instead of flying crew 1 decided to use the time we had dedicated to the flight to partially reorganize our lab area. Flight crew 1 organized Maintenance folders and unpacked and labeled new M600 batteries. Additionally, the senor mounting on the DJI M600 had failed. One of the screw mounting points on the sensor mounting rig had worn through, necessitating replacement. William and Kaleb took on the task of 3D printing a new mounting rig and John set aside time to perform the repair at a later date when the replacement part was available. A maintenance entry 11/02/2020

John Cox, Kaleb Gould, Jeff Hines

for the parts replacement will be dine in accordance with 14 CFR part 107 upon completion of the repair.