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Capstone Poster

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As our semester in AT419 came to a close, Thomas Gonya, Todd Horn, and I put together a poster on crew resource management in UAS. We chose this as our poster topic because Thomas and I were the two leaders of the class. In the professional world my goal is to move up into a crew management or operations management position, so having the opportunity to lead the class this semester was great experience for me.  The poster size limited us on how much information we could include, but I will run through the different sections of the poster:  For the top left section of our poster, we researched crew resource management and what exactly it entails. We did not create the star image ourselves, rather we found it during our research. This section is smaller than others and is primarily used to set a foundation for the rest of the poster. The second part of our poster elaborates on how we used the skills described above in our daily operations. The included pictures

First Successful Bramor Flight

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On March 27th, we completed our first flight with the C-astral Bramor. The operation ran smoothly with a successful data collection and landing. The weather for the day was around 50 degrees and winds were below 5 mph, creating excellent flight conditions. In order to assure safe procedures and proper flight execution, we followed our checklists closely. It was very beneficial to perform the dry runs from a couple weeks back. Because we ran those dry runs, we felt secure in how the operation was going to run, and eliminated confusion from happening in the field. To begin the flight day, I arrived early to the classroom along with Evan to plan out the mission, as well as go back over the recovery and parachute procedures for the aircraft. While we were there, Ian and Todd were packing a fresh parachute for this flight mission. The parachute must be packed no more than 24 hours in advance of the flight time. After these tasks were complete, Evan (PIC) and I (co-pilot) completed the in-