diff --git a/src/drivers/boards/aerofc-v1/board_config.h b/src/drivers/boards/aerofc-v1/board_config.h
index 55c2e72ea0..f444e18ba6 100644
--- a/src/drivers/boards/aerofc-v1/board_config.h
+++ b/src/drivers/boards/aerofc-v1/board_config.h
@@ -137,15 +137,9 @@
 #define  FLASH_BASED_DATAMAN
 
 /*
- * The following defined is a workaround and replaces CONFIG_ARCH_BOARD_AEROFC_V1
- * in the PX4 shared source code. #ifdef ONFIG_ARCH_BOARD_xxxx should never be added
- * to the PX4 code base. Instead board_config.h should provide logical conditional
- * compilation control based on features. I.E. BORD_HAS_xxxx
- * See https://github.com/PX4/Firmware/pull/5893#pullrequestreview-9651688
- * todo:This and TAP_ESC_NO_VERIFY_CONFIG needs to be removed from the code base
- * when final HW is debugged to dermine the root cause of ignoring the verify
+ * ESCs do not respond
  */
-#define TAP_ESC_NO_VERIFY_CONFIG /* This board can not tolerated verifying the tap esc got it's config */
+#define BOARD_TAP_ESC_NO_VERIFY_CONFIG 1
 
 #define MEMORY_CONSTRAINED_SYSTEM