About 18 months ago I had a Phantom ordered.
Browsing though the Net in general and YouTube in particular presented me with a series of horror stories about crashes and fly-aways. What I saw and read made me wonder if, loss for loss, I couldn't just put the money in a bundle, tie it with a flimsy piece of rubber-band and just throw it in the air to see what would happen.
I was so negatively impressed, I cancelled my order.
As time went by and I further investigated the subject, I came to 2 conclusions:
1. Manufacturers, especially DJI were quickly developing and/or adjusting software in order to drastically mitigate the fly-away problems.
2. Many of the crashes were originated by hard core idiocy by operators. (...Just yesterday I was seeing a video from a guy who already managed to crash his Mavic twice and, midway through the video, he nonchalantly mentions there were 25 mph winds with even higher gusts conditions on the second event...).
So, now I finally stepped from the side lines, have a Mavic ordered and am very confident that, with due care and appropriate following of technical and common sense rules, I will be OK and that if and when a crash happens it will most probably just be my fault.
MK