I already know DJI's response--it's the Flexible Flat Cable lol!
Good thing, it's within the return period or DJI's solution is to send it in for repairs for a $3 part, and charge you for two hours of repair labor at $65 an hour.
It's interesting that this is such a common issue. Granted I have a mavic pro and you have the air, but the gimbal on both platforms seem to be very prone to breaking as it lacks durability. My Mavic was babied with less than 7 hrs. of flight and 40 flights, and barely over a year old with no history of crashes or damages started to exhibit gimbal overload errors during my trip to HI. It started to happen immediately after I updated the firmware during 1/15/18 or 1/16/18. My drone would calibrate fine and pass start up, but would consistently have gimbal overload errors during flight.
I suspected the firmware as the culprit. DJI was adamant that it's the flexible flat cable...not sure why this part is so brittle if DJI is so sure that this is the problem. Seems like a junk part or poor design by DJI. Not sure if this same part made it to the Mavic Air--hopefully not.
Here's other posts about gimbal errors--admittedly for Mavics:
https://forum.dji.com/thread-131709-1-4.html https://forum.dji.com/thread-132496-1-4.html
But I think it's an issue that could potentially extend to the Airs too.
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