So I went flying. My spark hit something flies I think. I’ve cleaned it up but should I be concerned that something might have been sucked in.
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Bloody hell…
Not very helpful lol
Is anyone going reassure me or not
Reminds me of when I sliced my leg open starting up with the props on inside the house.
Never again
I would give it a good once over and if all looks ok, get back out, but try and miss the flies in future
I know you told me earlier lol. Hope you were ok
But should I be concerned about little sparky’s Internal components
I ran into a swarm of wasps last summer, the Mavic Air came off best !.
The garden grass looked like “Waspaggeddon”.
I should add the Air was no worse for wear, other than a good clean up.
The buzz of the drone does seem to attract them !.
Just check carefully around the gimbal, remove anything carefully with plastic tweezers.
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Well I cleaned it and let it hover in the house for a few seconds and it seemed fine.
Picture of how it looks now cleaned up
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I always spend 10 minutes when I get home cleaning my drone and the props carefully.
And a careful inspection for chipped, or damaged props is always the safe way to go.
Always held me in good stead for the last 6 years I have been flying drones.
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Hope nobody decided to walk barefoot on your lawn for a while,think someone may have got stung…just a thought…
Did you open up your air?
I guess you bought the “More Fly” combo, rather than the “Fly More” combo? 
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I probably wouldn’t be to concerned. Its not a jet engine and the turbine probably wouldn’t have sucked anything in. if anything there’s a small fan cooling either the CPU or heatsink. It may be worth your while getting an “Air Duster” and blowing through the vents. This would help remove any internal build-up of dust.
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Indeed - being less flippant - I wouldn’t worry.
For whatever reasons, the cooling fan on my MP failed a few months back, and I had to replace. Despite all the horror stories associated with not using a landing pad and “the fan clogging up with shit”, I’ve neve used one and the fan and internals showed no signs of anything getting into the MP after over 2 years of regular use. (Photos of stripdown.)
I think most “bugs”, etc, will have been blown past the fan intake by prop-wash.
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Thank you
Nope, I had no reason to, it was/is flying fine, and has done for the last year.