Hi,

All of us are uncomfortable with the landing gear of Pocket Drone, and I'm last days thinking about it and this is a prototype of what can be a descent landing Gear.

I was at Leroy Merlin and bought some "pipe holders" - a bag with 4 pieces.

So, first I measurement and I fold this holder like this:

I cut exactly on the and of the fixation hole and then, I mark the size of the PD's "retractile" landing gear and start to saw the piece like that:

After some adjustments - Aluminium is not a nice thing :)

This are the Landing gear installed at Pocket Drone

Some details.

Even in this beta version, this landing gear works better than the original ones.

I will do some improvements - install some rubber between the landing gear and PD's arm - to improve vibrations absorption and improve landing gear stability - I would use work "fixation" but the main idea and why I backer this PD is to has a pocket so a fixed landing gear is not my scope.

I will post more updates soon - after my research about rubber - I don't know a lot about it too - so if someone can help I will appreciate.

for now, this is how PD is:

Update - Beta 2 version :)

Well,

This solution was ok but not nice so......

because PD landing gear support is a "circle hole" and my landing gear are flat, the landing gear was not completely fixed/stable:

And the combination of plastic + metal for a landing gear was not the best option for impact absorption, so I went to a paper store and bought some rubbers :)

After try all - the green ones is too soft and the pentel was too hard, hotwheels was too fins so I choose the strange rubber with barcodes:)

After looking the default PD holders and my eternal wish for -  easy to remove and install I take the rubber, done some measurements and start to cut.

Since my first Crius AIOP I acquire a lot of experiences about vibrations and absorption and how great is the rubber how great will be the absorption - and for a landing gear it is important.

I just measure and cut the rubber like that:

This is the bottom view of the rubber. There is a role - that is because the original landing gear has an "arm" to keep the original landing gear locked - Ok is a joke but in the concept of the original landing gear someone has this idea - so, this hole will be over the little arm, and with that the rubber stay close as possible to the arm.

So this is how the rubber are attached to the arm:

Look the original landing gear support - the role to attach the landing gear is the most close to the metal landing gear - to fix the rubber on the arm - amazing you don't need glue or nothing - how I cut the rubber almost exactly size of the space between the landing gear holder plus the metal landing gear - they both exert pressure and with that the landing gear and the rubber stay on place and all my goals - impact absorption and a good landing gear for PD are meet.

The landing gear at the background was without the cut on the bottom of the rubber - so the cut is important :)

Was little late when I finished so I didn't fly yet but I drop PD from 10/15 centimeters to the ground and the landing gear works.

I will fly today and post comments - but the next step is improve the metal - I think a EVA or another plastic think in the middle of the landing gear will improve strength and resistance.