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Schedule & Critical Path

Everything needed to fly Medium closed-loop on the path to Monarch first flight. From Monarch Integration to Demo + Gap-Closure Schedule Rev 2. Red = critical path.
Why the critical path was hard to see: across the ~437 schedule rows, predecessor links are populated on virtually none, and many have no dates — so Smartsheet can't compute a true critical path. The chain below is reconstructed from start/finish dates. See data-quality detail →
Critical path Engineering work stream Other phase Milestone │ Today
Click any bar, milestone, or task row for detail and a link into the source sheet.

Critical Open Items

11 P1
The flight-readiness task list — Gap-Closure Register (Rev 2), 17 items to close or formally accept before the FRR (Jul 13). Key blockers: piloted simulator (P3→P1), GVT (Jul 1), battery fire/failure procedures, MFP3 sensor anomalies, and the new two-action motor-kill / RC layout. Context: MFP3 loss Jun 13 — task saturation a contributing factor.
Gap-closure register
#GapOwnerDuePri
Critical-path dependencies
DependencyBlocksRisk if it slips
Open Gap-Closure Schedule Rev 2 →  ·  Medium GNC/ASE TODO sheet →

↳ These FRR items feed the §927 documents

Closing the flight-readiness gaps is what makes the §927 petition & its supporting documents filing-ready. Resolved values flow into the petition sections and the ops-doc suite.
Jump to the §927 Petition tab →

↰ Fed by the FRR / Critical Open Items

The petition and readiness documents can't be finalized until the corresponding FRR flight-readiness items are closed. Each open value below is an inbound dependency.
Back to the FRR tab →

§927 Petition

DRAFT · not submitted
FAA Section 927 waiver petition (FAA Reauthorization Act of 2024) for open-site HAPS flight testing to ~60,000 ft. 12 sections drafted; §8 Specific Relief is a framework only (needs regulation-by-regulation legal review); §9 (COA path) flagged significant. Counsel review (Hogan Lovells) pending. 15 consolidated open items block filing.
Sections
#SectionStatus
Consolidated open items (must close before filing)
    Open petition draft v2 (Open-Site) →

    Document Readiness

    8 docs · all draft 0 frozen
    DocumentStateUpdated
    These are the petition's supporting documents (§10) and the readiness package. Flight-crew checklist (CL Rev B / HALO-FCC-001) freezes Jul 10; none frozen yet.

    Halo Monarch — Aircraft System Reference

    First flight · 0 hrs
    Solar-electric high-altitude pseudo-satellite (HAPS), S/N 001. Pilot-facing reference for speeds, limits, systems and known constraints. Items tagged NOT FINAL are flight-critical values still open in the FRR gap list — confirm before flight.
    ≈ 24–25 m wingspan · high aspect ratio 4× electric motors battery / payload pod twin-boom tail · 4 elevators + 2 rudders (no ailerons)
    Representative planform, not to scale. Detailed CAD/schematics live in Teamcenter / the engineering Drive.

    Flight-critical values still open

    These limits are not finalized and gate flight. Each is tracked as an FRR critical open item.
    Go to FRR critical open items →
    Sources — Smartsheet (Monarch Integration to Demo, Medium GNC TODO) + Google Drive “927” folder (petition §4 system description). Data refreshed server-side daily at 6 AM (or on-demand from Admin). Schedule/critical path inferred from dates.