Hi all,
We were on a boat the other day and would have love to have flown, we were watching killer whales!
Due to the swell we would not have been able to land on the deck of the boat.
Was wondering if there is a way to have some one grab the legs and then we can shut the motors down?
Any ideas?
I KNOW I am setting myself up to be shot down, but I'm a big boy now, so here goes:
I would urge you
NOT to engage in hand-catching your Typhoon H since it simply was not intended or designed to be landed that way, and I'm real big on a) following instructions and b) heeding all product warnings a manufacturer believes are necessary to include in order for them to at least diminish their product liability and at most protect the public.
One of the very first things Yuneec warns you about in their instructions about the drone THEY designed is to always
AVOID the spinning props, for very apparent reasons. Hand-catching a drone is NOT avoiding the spinning props at all. Instead, it is doing the exact opposite, really. It's purposely putting your body parts - including your precious, irreplaceable eyes - in danger by being way too close to the dangerous parts of an aggressive drone. Yuneec even instructs you and others to stand a proper, safe distance behind the Typhoon before the rotors are even engaged for safety reasons. Why on Earth would anyone choose to negate the protection that warning is intended to give by wilfully ignoring it?
I understand the reasons and penchant some may have for drone hand-catching, but personally I don't ever see myself doing it UNTIL a drone manufacturer explicitly makes a drone
with instructions included on how to hand-catch their new drone. To my knowledge, NO drones come with such instructions due to the obvious legal and financial liabilities they would be assuming in doing so. So, if you try hand-catching your drone, go into it knowing that there are
NO instructions on how or where to grab your Typhoon safely to do a hand-catch landing, therefore you will have
no product/consumer protection policies to fall back on if things go badly. Get hurt doing it and you will receive
zero sympathy or care from the drone manufacturer or seller.
Worse yet, imagine the reactions and the looks you will get from the medical personnel on hand patching you up when you try to explain to them - without looking incredibly foolish - just how you hurt yourself.
To me, the thrill or convenience of drone hand-catching is simply not worth the apparent, inherent risks of doing it. If the same rule of the 'luck of fate' that applies to drone flying - "It's not a matter of
if but
when you will crash" - is applied to drone hand-catching, then it would only take one bad bit of luck on one occasion to seriously ruin your day or perhaps even alter your life. How far you want to press the odds of fate are ultimately up to the individual. But for me, I happen to prefer my 10 fingers, 2 eyes, 1 nose,1 mouth and 1 face
not to be on the bargaining table in the first place. In fact, I wouldn't engage in any activity that would carelessly and non-challantly put any of those body parts at risk.
That's why I don't play groin-catch football, either, with or without a cup.
