Thank you.
Although I'm one that preaches not to hand catch the H, or any other multirotor, the reason is not that I believe it to be a dangerous practice. There are many instances where it may be the only acceptable means of recovery. For those that understand how a multirotor works, how the autopilot is programmed to respond to external inputs, those that have developed excellent hand, eye, control input response, there's nothing wrong with doing it at all. I do it often as well, and have for years.
However, as has been so well demonstrated in posts from many that experience issues with the practice, many flying multirotors have yet to develop the knowledge and skills necessary that permit hand catching to be a safe means of recovery for them. A few more try to perform hand catches because they lack the motor skills necessary to perform a functional ground landing. Hand catching should not be used to compensate for lack of ability to control the aircraft In fact, hand catching is something that should only be employed by those that have excellent flight control skills, and that understand how their aircraft works. Having that understanding eliminates questions as to why something happens the way it does, while that knowledge also permits the operator to avoid creating the conditions that cause the aircraft to become unstable during the hand catching process. Where I have serious problems with hand catching is with people telling everyone it's a perfectly acceptable means of recovering the aircraft all the time. For newbies, its not, and a mistake can leave them with a face full of propellers. Learn to fly, learn to land, become proficient with the controls and your reaction times, and then move on to hand catching. Learn to walk before trying to run.
