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Mavic Air Gimbal slightly off center

jmark

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It's not much, but enough to throw me off a little when I'm trying to fly in a straight line down a dirt path to something in the distance. I can line up the camera to the object I want to approach, but the drone will be flying straight, but just slightly off so it doesn't keep center to the path. It's mildly frustrating. Calibrating didn't seem to do anything.

What else can I try?
 
If I understand your question correctly, you might want to try tap to fly feature. I found this worked once when I've was trying to fly through a narrow suspension bridge and I wanted it to be centered all the way through.
 
If I understand your question correctly, you might want to try tap to fly feature. I found this worked once when I've was trying to fly through a narrow suspension bridge and I wanted it to be centered all the way through.

Thanks. That's a good idea. I'll be sure to use that in future as it seems safer than manually flying it. I seem to have fixed the gimbal issue though, I think.
 
Thanks. That's a good idea. I'll be sure to use that in future as it seems safer than manually flying it. I seem to have fixed the gimbal issue though, I think.
If you don't mind, how did you fix the issue? .
 
If you don't mind, how did you fix the issue? .

Well, I thought I had, but it seems to be back. I did a little experiment today where I placed a strip of electrical tape on the floor, placing a candle stick at one end of the tape and my MA at the other. I then tried to line the MA up so the tape ran straight through the middle of the craft from the gimbal to the back. Turned the craft on and let it run through the motions, the gimbal was off at first, but then seemed to line up pretty well. Although, when I'm flying, it does still seem that it is off because on the video feed the craft seems to be flying crooked ever so slightly. If i fly the craft directly away from me it does fly in pretty much straight line, but viewing the feed later showed that it appeared otherwise due to the gimbal being slightly off. So, I don't know. It's a right pain in the A and it needs to be fixed. Does anyone else have this issue?
 

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