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AT 309 - Flight Lab 2
Flight log:
9/11/25 Skydio 2+ SATT-E at Purdue Turf Farm with Jacob, Joe, and Isabella. 1.0 total time with 0.5 being rPIC and 0.5 being VO.
Preflight:
The purpose of this week’s lab was to use the skydio to map the student garden and the building at the Purdue Turf Farm. Due to a conflict with AT 209’s lab group, Jacob and I had to pare up with Isabella Avedician and Joe Kahi. Before we flew the mappings, we had to get LAANCE. A picture of the LAANCE approval was attached. As we were getting ready, we saw a dude flying relatively reckless around our planned flight path so we had to go talk to him and asked him if he can fly it with bit more care. On the drive Jacob looked at the meter to make out go no go choice. The meter said the winds are variable at three to five knots and the sky was supposed to be clear, but at the turf farm there was some clouds.
Test Procedure:
The actual flight was pretty to fly because most of it was the drone computing and flying it by itself. We only had to program the flight. We were able to accomplish this task by using the skydio enterprise app. We had the drone map two squares. One was flown at 200 feet and was the bigger one we called Hailmary 1. We used the following setting for the first map. 80% side and frontal overlap and the gimble straight down, called nadir. Before we took off, we checked the RTO settings and confirmed with all members of the flight crew to see if they liked it or if we should change any. 
Our second mapping was of a smaller area and this with more problems. One of the biggest problems was the tress at the same heigh as we were planning to map the area. We decided that we will create our box a good distance away from the trees and pray for the best that GPS comes in clutch. We flew the smaller one at 80 feet, with 80% side and frontal overlap with the gimbal at a 75 degree and with cross-hatch and perimeter enabled. The flight crew did the pre takeoff checklist which included checking the batteries, the RTO settings, and went over our roles as we changed rPIC.
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