Donnie
Second Officer
Flight distance : 3636782 ft
United States
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I have seen this asked but never answered and wanted to post this for future reference if ever needed. If you need to raise or lower the landing gear by using a standard screwdriver ( flathead ). There is a small slotted screw on the bottom of the aircraft directly in line with the "Worm Gear " boot. With the X3 camera you will need to push the Gimbal floating assembly slightly forward to expose the slot screw, with the X5 you may need to remove the camera. ( I dont own X5 or X5R so not sure ) The slot screw is small and deeply recessed and it is located on the belly of the aircraft towards the center, when the floating gimbal is pushed forward it is just exposed, it is enough to get that small standard screwdriver into, be sure to look at the position of the screw slot and match your tool with it.
***Do NOT use the supplied screwdriver that came with the Kit , that is for the RC transmitter Tablet mount. It tightens the screw on the right side of the mount . DJI does not say what purpose it has but I found a reference for it somewhere . For some reason , including yours truly,I thought that was it's purpose ....until I looked at the location of the screw and thought NO WAY ! Use the One I have in the pic below and you will be perfect .
MAKE SURE THE AIRCRAFT IS OFF WHEN DOING THIS PROCEDCURE
Be sure to look at pics below- thank you RichJ53 !!
Once you have the slot exposed use a small 3 1/2 inch scredriver with a blade about 1/8 wide ( Pocket protector screwdrivers work perfect see picture at bottom of page )
Below is from the perspective of having the AC upside down.
To LOWER the gear TURN THE SCREW ( DRIVER ) CLOCKWISE ( Landing Position )
To RAISE the gear TURN THE SCREW ( DRIVER ) COUNTER CLOCKWISE ( Flight Position )
Sometimes if the gear gets stuck , either up or down all it takes is a couple of turns of the scredriver and then it will work.
Make sure when placing the aircraft in Travel Mode that you have removed the camera and that you are on a hard level surface. The VPS sensor needs that hard level surface to determine how high to raise the gear, when you dont have that solid surface the Landing Gear travels beyond the level mode for travel and sometimes gets stuck when the worm gear travels beyond it limits and sometimes gets stuck .
Donnie
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