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    Flying the Mavic inside an empty LPG Gas Tank - is it possible?

    Forensics_Pilot and others are correct; I do potable water tank inspections. Last year I tried to fly my M2Z inside a 4 million gallon steel ground storage tank. As soon as I lifted off the drone began to drift side to side uncontrollably. I landed in a hard slide thanking my lucky stars the...
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    Gimbal Motor Overloaded

    Babb, Montana (49S) is the Babb airport FAA Identifier.
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    Gimbal Motor Overloaded

    Update February 2; 24 degrees F, 4 MPH and partly cloudy. Flew for a total of about 45 mins and no problems, this is going to be a fun drone to learn :0)
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    Gimbal Motor Overloaded

    January 31 DJI Repair Progress Inquiry from their CA USA repair station; They show a picture of my camera with a title “gimbal off center and noisy” They show another picture of an I-phone with a title “overall status” which I cannot read. Yesterday, I received a different drone body and the...
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    Gimbal Motor Overloaded

    Interesting on the low temperature issue it appears this is the case however it still above the minimum temp DJI states for the Mavic 2 of 14F (-10°C to 40°C) No filters January 16 After speaking with a DJI technician in CA USA, I have factory re-set the Smart Controller, updated the latest...
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    Gimbal Motor Overloaded

    New Mavic 2 Zoom with Smart controller January 8 2020; After the required updating and calibrating; approximately 3 minutes into my 1st flight I received the Gimbal Motor Overloaded warning. The next 12 or so test flights resulted in the same error message at about the same few minutes after...