People buy them as toys, but most toys usually can't slice digits off if you hold them incorrectly.

My Mavic had a problem with it's arm once

The limiter broke

This drone has a setting that you can hold it in your hand and have it take off from there. Seems very stupid to do.

the propeller made contact with the drone chasis

It cut through with the same effect as a saw.

I hand-launch all the time.

I even hand-catch.

Figured it wasn’t that safe.

But you have to be ready to do it, and aware of the potential problems

There's technique

and you have to be able to do it without flinching.

Maybe I’ll turn that setting on again after my first few flights.

Really only got as far as taking it apart/putting it together, charging all the stuff, and doing software updates.

As someone who tries to take video of events and the like, occasionally I draw an uncomfortable crowd.

I have to secure a launch and landing site for my Karma, but my Mavic, I can hand-catch.

(editing video right now...)

I’d only use the drone for hiking and stuff so I don’t expect anyone to be around to bother me.

@CreativeRealms

I dropped the bitrate through the floor on this for the sake of removing detail and making it small enough to post

but the first clip is to show what I was filming (a large crowd at a carnival).

Rip drone

My drone got spotted by some kids, and they saw that I was piloting it. I wound up getting surrounded and was getting distracted, and needed to relocate my operation.

What do you mean Rip Drone?

That was a successful example and use of a hand-catch.

It looked like it hit something.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

When it went sideways, that was the motors successfully stopping. After that, it just got whisked away, and I was able to move.

Normally, if I'm doing a ground landing, I have to secure a place. I don't like to land within 3 feet of non-participating (not privy to the operation at hand) people, trees, or slanted ground. Or water.

So, if I'm bringing my Karma down, for instance, I'll find my landing zone, and start walking around the center of it in a wide circle.

If I'm bringing my Mavic down, I'll try the same (albeit with concrete preferred over grass because the landing rudders on the Mavic is virtually nonexistant)

But the process of landing takes about 20 seconds that way.

at least.

The hand catch lets me ignore my other landing protocol. Grasp it from beneath (avoiding the proximity sensors), kill the motors, bug the hell out. 5 seconds is all it takes to kill the motors.

But yeah, Drones are scary, and should generally be treated with the same regard as a weapon when it comes to personal responsibility.

Otherwise, this sort of shit happens.

Shark drone.

Sheet

My potato probably can’t do that ya?

Can it fly?