Flight Mode Setup - No Options Available

Ground Control Software Mission Planner
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This is what the manual says -

You can set up the flight modes available on the transmitter by doing the following:

1 - Turn on your RC transmitter
Connect the Pixhawk (or other flight controller) to the Mission Planner
Go to the Initial Setup | Mandatory Hardware | Flight Modes screen

2 - Use the drop-down on each line to select the flight mode for that switch position.

3 - When finished press the Save Modes button.

But what do you do when the drop-down menu is blank, and has no option available?

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What flight controller and firmware are you using.

I have just experienced this in Mission Planner but it was when I connected to a PixFalcon loaded with the PX4 flight stack, which Mission Planner does not read

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Pixhawk with latest FW and MP Beta

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Did you try hitting “Control F” in Mission Planner and select “Param Gen”? I had something similar once and that fixed MP for me.

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YES!!

That did it, thank you so much Joe. :grin:

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I also want to thank you Joe, yours was the only post that solved this issue. I will throw this out, I could see the flight modes when using my Win 7 desktop, but not when using my Win 10 laptop. Not sure if that is part of the issue, but more info cant hurt.

Cheers.

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For me,
Frame type set through parameter only , that is custom Frame Type i.e. FRAME_TYPE = 18 (BetaFlightXReversed), and this caused problem.
So to fix it, selected Frame Type from Mission Planner as Quad X and later changed to FRAME_TYPE = 18 (BetaFlightXReversed) in Parameter List

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thanks for the feedback here, sounds like might need to fix this