The picture shows the reason why the SD card slot is upside down. They mounted it on the bottom of the circuit board.

I just use a bit of tape (any thin tape will do) and make a tab at the back of the SD card to pull it out easier. Hope that helps someone else.   

Excellent, simple and it works.... :-)

Cameleon Posted at 2018-2-13 00:31
I've always wondered/thought that about MicroSD. Doesn't seem beefy enough to suggest you should constantly be inserting and removing the card from it. Guess thats why they have the USB-C.
Shame they didn't think to make the USB-C card reader part self powered from the USB-C itself and instead have to have the drone on.  Would have been far better to have the card reader self powered so you can charge the battery (on the seperate charger) at the same time as taking off your images off the drone. Guess the wiring involved was too much like hard work (to make sure you cant have the drone powered up from the battery and from the USB-C at the same time) and probably required a bit more space.

Same thought here

m1shootr Posted at 2018-2-9 02:59
No problem here installing the SD card, and I have large fingers. The problem is getting it back out. My solution is to carry a pair of tweezers in the Mavic flight case. BTW, I give the Polar Pro hard case for the Mavic a thumbs up. And no, I'm not affiliated with the company in any way.

Yep, I've done the same so I can put the card in a SD to USB adapter, plug that into my TV and watch the 4K goodness straight off the card.

fans3efc13fa Posted at 2018-2-23 14:05
I just use a bit of tape (any thin tape will do) and make a tab at the back of the SD card to pull it out easier. Hope that helps someone else.

Nice, simple idea

I use a ink pen tip  works great

Newbie tip : I used my wacom rubber tip stylus to place the micro SD and get it out again.
Worked like charm in both cases.

Cameleon Posted at 2018-2-9 03:43
Fair point, I don't remember seeing anywhere the max capacity is listed. Only that it should be at least U1/C10 - although that to me suggests it wouldn't do 4k - which I found with my Transcend U1/C10 card. I currently have a Samsung U3 and it seems happy. Also odd DJI don't list the max capacity specs only cards that are "recommended".

128 is the max

I use a tweezer

Im more curious why MA doesent support NTFS.. 2018 And 700$ Drone have USB-C port but no NTFS support? Seriously.. Joinig video files wplit to 3,5gb parts is anoying af.

Tweezers are in the traveling tool bag that goes with the Mavic Air.

PiVoR Posted at 2018-10-3 05:36
Im more curious why MA doesent support NTFS.. 2018 And 700$ Drone have USB-C port but no NTFS support? Seriously.. Joinig video files wplit to 3,5gb parts is anoying af.

Exfat is the universally recommended file system for SD Cards over 32GB. AFAIK it doesn’t have any file size limitations so no file stitching is required. Also I don’t see any performance improvements from exfat over ntfs within the performance limits of a sd card data throughput.
Another thing is the fact that NTFS only works “officially” on windows so it would be a problem for Mac or Linux users like me.