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Just took delivery of an m30t Question: is there a way to transfer the data to pc with the card still in the aircraft by simply plugging in a usbc ? (Like you can with MAVIC 3 series) Firemen have fat fingers and I’d like to reduce the number of times the sd card is removed and replaced.

Update: I ended up sending the aircraft back to dji in California. Received an update today. No charge, replaced under warranty: Main Controller Module Quantity: 1 Net Price : 1,376.00

Interesting thoughts. While we test rth functionality in two of the three modes, our school of thought is that we found it irresponsible to purposely create a scenario where a rpic has no control over the aircraft during a flight.

I’m with you! I’ve been flying DJI drones for a couple years now. I even teach police and firefighters how to safely fly drones. Part of our training involves the three types of RTH, but we never actually shut off a controller to initiate rth because we consider it an unacceptable risk to...

The lesson I learned in all this is that if flying over water, one needs to make certain the home point is at least 20 meters from the waterline. While I thought I knew how rth worked, I did not understand at the time that if failsafe rth is initiated within 20 meters of the homepoint, the...

Yes. I posted the .dat file elsewhere which seems to show that there is a really strong link between rc and ac, which streams video and telemetry data to the rc but the aircraft is unable to receive input from the rc. The general thought is that there may be a firmware issue with the rc...

We were flying an m210 today and intermittently the aircraft appeared to stop in mid air and no longer accept stick inputs from the remote controller. We thought it was the vision positioning system putting the brakes on. We were flying over a lake that was frozen and we’re almost back to...

I weighed the legs. Combined they are 145 grams (5oz) according to our scale. I also measured the distance on center, with a big fat ruler, of the fasteners on the bottom of the aircraft and they appear to be approximately 1 inch on center. A caliper or more accurate measuring device was...

The pfd is from www.throwraft.com It’s coast guard approved. I think it weighs about 1.5 pounds. I’ll put it on a scale on Saturday. We also have 600’ of rope we attach to this yellow rescue device for ice water rescue. Once delivered to the victim, rescuers can safely pull from shore...

It works with m210 through the pilot app, which is nice because there is no separate transmitter required and almost zero latency. It plugs into the extended i/o port on the back of the ac. I don’t go back to work until Saturday.

We use this fses drop system. The small piece in the photo stays connected to the aircraft and allows the actual mechanism to slide on/off Here it is mounted: And here it is in action:

I’ll try to take a photo when im Back at work. Our drop mechanism is held on by a couple of torx screws. It came with instructions to remove the two stock screws from the bottom of the “battery cage” and replace with longer ones that pass through the drop system mount and utilize the...

This was our first test using the inflatable “throw raft” and Drop mechanism over water.

Yes! We received a drop mechanism with our m210. It comes with a small cord that plugs into one of the connectors for the expansion port. You can actuate the mechanism through the pilot app.

In my experience, matrice adsb ignores high flying aircraft (above 10k feet?) and only reports aircraft that are realatively close. I fly matrice most often within 3 miles of a non-towered airport and Often encounter low flying aircraft (below 1,000 feet) Occasionally I see a helicopter or...