Designing Purpose-Built Drones for Ardupilot Pixhawk 2.1

Setting up the firmware

Unfortunately, the Quadplane feature is somewhat new. There is no wizard to set it up. In all fairness, it is such a complicated design that assuming that a user knows how to use the full parameter list is a fairly safe assumption. Luckily, the parameters to set up Quadplane are within the Arduplane firmware. So, we haven't wasted our time with the tuning of the airframe.

All of the parameters in Arduplane that are Quadplane-specific start with the letter Q. But you will only see one such parameter at first. This is Q_ENABLE.

Following is a table showing all of the parameters to get a Quadplane up and going (along with notes on them):

Parameter	Notes
Q_ENABLE	This enables the QuadPlane functionality when ...