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Switchable Flaperons #16723

Open wucke13 opened 3 years ago

wucke13 commented 3 years ago

Feature request

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. No. On planes which feature both ailerons and flaps, I like to enable flaperons on demand, e.g. for sharp maneuvers, acrobatics as well as redundancy. However for smooth flying or slow approaches not having the flaps move is a good thing, that is why I make this switchable.

Describe the solution you'd like I would like to have a switch function to disable flaperons/downgrade all flaperons to become just flaps.

Describe alternatives you've considered This issue could be solved by adding a RC channel for the strength of aileron input on flaperons as well. I don't need this, however it sounds like a neat feature too.

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IamPete1 commented 3 years ago

You could set them up as D spoilers https://ardupilot.org/plane/docs/differential-spoilers.html and then the DSPOILER_OPTS Full span ailerons and Progressive crow bits should will give the switch you need in a single param. We would just need to add a switch for that param bit.

Of course you can do that with scripting already until we get round to a dedicated switch.