Week 12

As the weather was great, we decided to fly another mission. This time Ryan flew his M100 with the multi-spectral camera to gather more data. We also flew the Bramor to capture more of the river and the flooding that had occurred around it. Beforehand, me and Ian packed a parachute since the time after packing the previous one had expired. The manual states that there cannot be more than 24 hours between packing the parachute and release. This is mostly due to the creases in the parachute itself. If the creases stay then it can hinder the opening of the parachute, potentially causing a mishap. Teams were the same as last time and everyone participated in the pre-flight checklist.

Parachute packed and ready. The dressing of the cords, while important,
is not as important as making sure the strands do not cross over. The overall
quality of this chute was great and opened up perfectly.

This week me, Thomas, and Kyle started to make good headway on the poster. The poster is for the SATT presentation of capstone classes for the technology department. Initially, our poster was going to talk about the similarities and differences between Drone Logbook and Measure. Due to the weather, we were not able to get many flights in to test out the two software. We shifted our focus to crew resource management within UAS operations. Below you will see the final product. As you can see we first define what CRM is and how it applies to many applications, not just UAS. This is to introduce people into this concept that might not know what it was beforehand. Then on the right of the poster we point out different applications we used in our operations. Measure, Drone logbook, Trello, Google Drive, Groupme, Zello are all utilized by our operation in some aspect that was notable. We gave we brief description of each app after some constructive criticism from class. Our rough draft did not have any description so viewers might not have any idea what some of these apps were. Finally on the bottom right we described how CRM effected our day to day operations. In there talks about how we used roles, leadership, and crews to hand out roles to team members. The checklists that we used and how we used them were also highlighted.

The final draft for the poster symposium. Class photos of our flight manager
(Kyle) training the class on the Getac. The poster highlights how we use CRM
in UAS operations at Purdue.