**Feature Request / Discussion**: Airframe group definitions for Planes

[philipoe]

Feature Request / Discussion

The PX4/QGC airframes for planes are in my opinion somewhat ambiguously defined. The obviously good concept of grouping airframes was contributed here. Currently, there is the groups "standard plane" and "Plane A-Tail", i.e. we group them by tail configuration. However, the planes in these groups also seem to differ by their flap configuration (Plane A-Tail: Two separate flaps, Standard Plane: Flaps on same servo output or not even connected).

Overall Question: Why were the groups chosen that way? I assume just because at that time there was only a limited amount of platforms. Overall however, I could think of the airframe types:

1. Plane A/V-Tail, with 2 separate flaps
2. Plane A/V-Tail, with 0/1 flaps
3. Plane T-Tail, with 2 separate flaps
4. Plane T-Tail, with 0/1 flaps (current group: Standard plane)

These groups would cover a wider range of configurations. Specifically I am thinking about adding a) Multiplex EasyGlider (proposed group 4), HobbyUAV Techpod (proposed group 3) and RP Flight Systems Vigilant C (proposed group 1).

@hamishwillee Seems like you were heavily involved in this.

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[hamishwillee]

@philipoe Sorry, completely missed this issue. Generally the design has been based around reducing the selection as far as possible - to a set from which a user can reasonably make a selection that will work (ie previously we have millions of specific tunings that were effectively the same).
Currently the set looks like this:

Anyway, sounds like you may have a point. @dagar @RomanBapst ?

[hamishwillee]

Keep this open

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