How to set vehicle type when planning a mission offline?

[murpia (Ian Murphy)]

I previously connected Mission Planner to a Copter. Now I cannot load or plan a QuadPlane mission offline. The QuadPlane commands are not recognised or available.

How do I set the vehicle type for an offline mission?

[Allister (Allister Schreiber)]

There might be a better way, but I will run the simulator in the vehicle type I’m trying to plan for.

[Tacito (Tacito S.)]

Maybe this helps you:

Simulation in Mission Planner Complaining About Missing DLL

I am using mission planner 1.3.79 ArduCputer v4.3.2 on Windows 11. I was trying to run ArduCopter simulation from the simulations tab on Mission Planner. After clicking on simulation tab, I selected the “Model” then clicked on Multirotor logo under “Please select a firmware to run”. This always gave me a popup saying “ArduCopter.exe - System Error”. “The code execution cannot proceed because cyggcc_s-seh-1.dll was not found. Reinstalling the program may fix this problem.” I tried reinstalling …

[Archit_Jaiswal]

Vehicle type can also be set in the ardupilot parameters. The vehicle type parameter is called “Frame Class”.

Here is more info about it: Complete Parameter List — Copter documentation