Recent content by BossBob

While I sympathise with you and your frustration the problem is between the original owner and the middleman who sold the drone to you. It’s the same problem you’d have if you were to buy a second hand iPhone that had not been reset by the original owner when they sold it. I believe Apple have...

If the device is that new reach out to DJI or the supplier. As said, bad firmware affects everyone. A bad controller or drone only affects you.

Flying over water isn’t a problem. Launching or landing from a boat is the problem, especially if you don’t understand the logic. Even the simple Trello, with no GPS and only rudimentary height sensors, knows when it is dropped if the motors are running and will throttle up itself to maintain...

I’d be flying the done out far enough to get the vertical (if the drone can alter its camera to portrait orientation do that) framing I want and then fly the drone sideways in a straight line along the beachfront taking overlapping shots. Don’t forget to fix focus and exposure. Then manually...

More likely your luck ran out! From the moment the motors are started the logic for the drone is to stay at that three dimensional position. If the boat was swinging at anchor I’ll bet the drone moved away from the direction of swing, suddenly found there was no deck below it so tilted just as...

I’ll just file away the lip at the top of the battery hub that the batteries latch on to. A nice big elastic band can hold all the batteries in place, or if being picky, three individual elastic bands, one per battery.

Perhaps it’s that the batteries are clipped into the battery charger as well as being clipped into the drone which puts twice as much stress on the clips. The charger seems like a good idea but could be the cause of the problem. Even if you use a different charger with no clips there is the...

Just did a search and there is a new Mavic Air 1 IMU for sale on eBay Australia...

I thought that the mini 4 pro props were different? Something to do with the mounting hole and the screw size/specification.

Thanks. I’ve had similar. The magnetised screwdriver was fine.

I’d ordered this part as the one on my MP had split and I’d repaired it using some epoxy glue. The drone has flown for years like it without problems. The part arrived this morning and the fiddliest bit was picking up the minute screws to secure the new part in place. I suggest a magnetised...

I thought I’d have a look at Disk Drill until I saw that it was only a free trial version of an expensive paid for program. I’ve never paid for this kind of program and have always been able to recover all kinds of files from all kinds of media.

Go4 still works fine on my Mavic Pro.

The gps should download ephemeris data which give it a forecast of the satellite patterns for hours, days, weeks in advance with reducing accuracy the further away it’s looking. If you’ve not started your drone for a good long while that will be out of date. A long time is not a defined time so...

DJI won’t be interested in supporting a drone that has been out of production for years. The part that has broken is a small plastic cover that sits on the back of the gimbal. It’s secured by a pair of minute screws and is so fragile that slightly over tightening the screws will cause the...