I must agree that plastic cover for gimbal is doing more damage then helping. First, you are in outdoor, field, mountain, war, desert, so its not that you have like a table to do operation of REMOVING the plastic cover. Probably 95% of us is doing that standing with mini in hands. And to do so you MUST contact gimbal. And YOU CANNOT do that like easily because plastic wont fit if you are to gentle. So actually you are hitting gimbal all the time. O, another thing. Maybe I am doing it wrong. But to transfer media to phone, you must connect phone to rc, turn on mini. All that. And off course when you turn on mini, gimbal has those some his warming ups, and you can actually see gimbal hitting that plastic.