New P4P plus owner here. I have flown P4P+ a total of four times. Very careful each time and I am still using it in “DJI Beginner Mode”. Yesterday was my first flight in an open field without anyone or obstacles near me. As I am getting ready to fly, lo and behold a guy walks up and ask me a question so I was momentarily distracted. I turned on the P4P but left the clip-on factory Gimbal cover attached. While it was sitting on the launching pad and within a few seconds I realized my mistake and powered down the aircraft. I then carefully removed the Gimbal cover and restarted the Phantom 4 pro plus again. The Phantom 4 pro plus and Gimbal appeared fine after removing the cover so I proceed to fly it and had no issues with the aircraft or the gimbal. The gimbal seemed to have not minded that I had left the cover on while it was trying to going through it’s start-up gyration sequence. After I took the cover off it seemed fine. It doesn’t seem like I hurt or damaged the gimbal.
So that brings up my question, how does the Gimbal handle those situations when it is restricted by something such as a cover or other object. It must have some built-in safeguard or else it seems every other newbie pilot’s Phantom 4 pro plus would be in the shop for Gimbal repair.
So that brings up my question, how does the Gimbal handle those situations when it is restricted by something such as a cover or other object. It must have some built-in safeguard or else it seems every other newbie pilot’s Phantom 4 pro plus would be in the shop for Gimbal repair.