substitue aircraft for craft, drone, or quad

[nerdCopter]

• replace [Dd]rone, [Qq]uad, [Cc]raft with [Aa]ircraft
• messages only, not variables.

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[haslinghuis]

• unmanned aerial vehicle
• rotorcraft
• multirotor

[nerdCopter]

• i never see the term rotorcraft, IRL.
• wing might not be multirotor (single prop)
• UAV maybe usable, but existing language uses [Cc]raft often, and thus was open to [Aa]ircraft.

I'm thinking remain [Cc]raft for now, kick the can down the road (for alternative word).

[ctzsnooze]

I tend to prefer 'aircraft' as an abbreviation for 'model aircraft', rather than 'craft'. Never liked 'craft' much. No-one calls our quads 'craft', not in the real world. We have 'wings' and we have 'quads'. True, we have some hexacopter, tricopters and so on, but they are rare. And we don't want to use 'copter' since 'quads' are not 'helis'.

I appreciate that we are also supporting wings much more, but personally unless the tip needs it, I'd say 'quad' still.

Some tooltips may have little or no relevance to wings; those that do should speak explicitly about wings.

I'd prefer that a general tooltip spoke about 'quads', and if there was no need to change the content, say the same about was the same for wings, then leave it at that.

If however a wing has some special requirement or note, eg the new special CLI options for wings, then we speak about 'wings' in that tooltip.

Alternatively, if we get very clever, then maybe if the user chooses 'wing' for the mixer type, or the USE_WING DEFINE is included, then all instances of 'craft' or 'quad' become 'wing'. That would be the 'right' way to go :-)

PS - when used in the form "to improve the craft's responsiveness', we need an apostrophe before the 's'.

[nerdCopter]

updated.

• fixed single possessive
• replaced [Cc]raft with [Aa]ircraft while removing plural s
• skipped language variable names.

if this PR is not important or undesired, happy to close it.

the following force-pushes were simply commit message amend.

[nerdCopter]

no problem :)

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On Thu, Oct 31, 2024 at 6:19 PM Mark Haslinghuis ***@***.***> wrote: Sorry for not approving. Agree with @ctzsnooze <https://github.com/ctzsnooze>. IMO [air]craft is too generic like calling a race car a vehicle. Some messages apply to quads only. For wings we probably need other descriptions. Message ID: <betaflight/betaflight-configurator/pull/4232/c2451007244@ github.com>

[ctzsnooze]

Why closing?

[nerdCopter]

Why closing?

• please click the 3-dots on my prior comment. closed based on feedback.
• i personally do like aircraft, but if others have difference of opinion, i'll respect such.
• dynamic drone/quad/wing/aircraft, might be too cumbersome to code. (personally choose not to implement)

[haslinghuis]

IMO nothing wrong using quad as we could use UAV as general term. Think aircraft is used for real planes. But perhaps we do a poll on discord to get more opinions :)
Think some messages would only apply to quads as we do not account for wings yet (PIDs)

[ctzsnooze]

Our local regulators refer to all the things we fly, whether wings, quads, multi-rotors, helis - as 'model aircraft'.

I agree with nerdCopter that the term aircraft is a very good generic term. It truly covers all of the 'craft' that we fly, and makes it clear that we are dealing with air-craft, not boats or cars, which are also 'craft'.

UAV is a good alternative generic term, as an acronym for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle. It has the advantage of brevity, and means 'unmanned', whereas aircraft does not. It has the disadvantage that it has military implications, in the sense that a 'vehicle' is a machine that is self-propelled and is designed to transport people or cargo, whereas most Betaflight users do not fly to transport people or cargo. So UAV to me strongly implies drones used either to transport merchandise or to drop bombs. And that's not what we are about, primarily.

Hence, of the two, I prefer aircraft over UAV.

My take on aeroplane or plane is that those terms are specific to a form of aircraft that has wings. The plane part refers to the planar aspect of the wing surface that generates lift. And that we can call these wings.

My preference therefore would be:

• aircraft for generic statements that apply to all kinds of model aircraft, and for general use, in place of quad or quadcopter or UAV.
• multirotor aircraft or multirotor for statements applicable only to quadcopters and the like
• wing for winged aircraft.

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[McGiverGim]

I'm late to that PR, sorry...
This automatic replacement in one language, has invalidated the 18% of translations... A lot of work for translators.
Please take this into account before any other bulk change in the messages file