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    M200 CCW Propellers wobble on motor drive shaft

    According to what i have read overhaul is part of the recommended service at the 200 hour mark by DJI. Wonder how this turned out for you?
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    One possible cause of sudden motor shutdowns

    Try that Airdata free account and see what comes up under the battery cells etc. There very well could be a problem in this case! Also, check the production date etc. in the Go4 App as well as firmware numbers.
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    Flight with no GPS

    Might sound dumb but i flew my Phantom 4 the other day for battery maintenance reasons and encountered a similar problem. Turns out the App had put itself back into beginner mode. I had to come down and restart to convince myself all was okay. That said, the Satellites that actually make up our...
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    Aerial Mapping Difficulties

    Reduce Speed to 3m/s and overlap to 70-80% max. Make sure Mavic 2 Pro is in HQ mode as the larger FOV mode has noted problems.
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    Life Span of Matrice

    This is the exact reason i own three Inspire 1.v2 pros and purchase parts of broken birds off ebay. The Manufactures like to put you in a position where you feel you need to buy new from them. The Inspire batteries is a good example of their trying to force the issue. The Community usually...
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    One possible cause of sudden motor shutdowns

    Were the Batteries freshly charged to 100% ??? Let these sit and they discharge, sounds like they sat for awhile. If you don't have the Airdata.com Application, get the free account. It will show the battery drop off. I had an Inspire 1 battery that had bot been fully charged (it was new to me)...
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    WTB - M200 or M210 V1 or V2

    Have the Matrice 210 RTK (now v1) with dual sensor, one on top RTK position flying. Multiple sensor additions have come out at Airworks this (2019) Year. Options are starting to happen !!
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    What is working now?

    Florida Power and Light (FPL) have a Fleet also. They range from Matrice 210's to Inspire 1 v2's and are ruching to install Solar Fields throughout their territory. They have an in-house program and are difficult to "get on" with. BUT they, as others have, created Partner programs. So don't get...
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    Considerations for Solar Inspection

    There are many an Inspire 1 v2 x3 or x5 with FLIR Vue Pro R 's attached doing this work now. So i would not discount what you already seem to have in equipment. After all, that was why DJI made the Matrice 210, for its dual camera capabilities and adding flight time over say, the Inspire 1.
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    Ground Station Pro

    GS Pro 2.0 has removed the 99 waypoint restriction. As for SD cards i use the ADATA 128 GB with its write speeds >155 MBS I have not had capture problems. Lexar Pro 1800x card is another i have been using for three years and it has yet to fail at capture. I get the ADATA cards on sale via...
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    Anyone have any experience with Open Drone Map

    I use in conjunction with QGIS and make changes in state plane as necessary. I don't have a problem with the results. My fight is with RTK and CORS correction. Thinking of buying Emlid Reach units as the Matrice 210 RTK is RTK of the UAV only. It's Ground Station does NOT play well with other...
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    Anyone have any experience with Open Drone Map

    No, it doesn’t do everything for you, you need to know what you want. You can add GDAL etc. for getting closer in and manual tie points.... What good are automatic paid tools if you never know the process and all your work is in a company’s cloud?
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    Anyone have any experience with Open Drone Map

    WebODM in conjunction with QGIS is an open source answer. Know your local coordinate system and have a powerful enough Laptop or Desktop and your keeping your data out of the cloud. I’m using an Asus ROG GL702vm and it’s powerful enough. There are YouTube videos, if needed, to get you familiar...
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    Email Edge flight controller

    Has anyone tried out the new Emlid edge flight controller yet? I'm thinking of using a Foxtech F1000 pro with the Edge FC and their RTK kit. (I'm open to the giai 160 also as it can carry 4 batteries >1 hr. Flight time). Wanted to get feelers out first before I spend the $4500 on a complete...
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    Number of Drones and Part 107 Pilots

    I have 4 aircraft under my part 107. The FAA isn't breaking it down as to how many aircraft per 107 pilot. Those numbers would be much more accurate if they did.