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Forgive me if this has been answered already, my search skills might not be up to the task. Today I realized I had been flying the Mavic for about a year without tightening the screws! This is something I do once a month or 8 flight days on my Inspire 1 without fail but for whatever reason I didn't have the maintenance plan in place on the Mavic.
Anyway I went through with an hex wrench tonight and rectified the situation. Except for the aft motor mounts, which are covered by the landing skids. Is it OK to pop off the skids without damage? They didn't seem to have any flex or "give" at all and I don't want to force them off only to find out they're glued on or something. However I got easily a full turn on the fore motors (and about 1/2 turn on all the others) so I think it might be pretty important to check them. There's also one on the fuselage that has anti-tamper glue in the hole so that one didn't get done either.
BTW the fore motor screws are in an awkward spot because of the landing strut, one of the screws is very hard to get to with a fold-out hex key set.
thanks!
Anyway I went through with an hex wrench tonight and rectified the situation. Except for the aft motor mounts, which are covered by the landing skids. Is it OK to pop off the skids without damage? They didn't seem to have any flex or "give" at all and I don't want to force them off only to find out they're glued on or something. However I got easily a full turn on the fore motors (and about 1/2 turn on all the others) so I think it might be pretty important to check them. There's also one on the fuselage that has anti-tamper glue in the hole so that one didn't get done either.
BTW the fore motor screws are in an awkward spot because of the landing strut, one of the screws is very hard to get to with a fold-out hex key set.
thanks!