Folks, if you're going to do this, then for God's sake be careful. You're all big boys and girls who can choose for yourselves whether or not to follow simple instructions. Personally, I think there's a valid reason that DJI starts its instructions off stressing to avoid the spinning props, issuing all of its prop warnings, and so on. I'll start hand catching when I read the manufacturer's instructions - written by a drone's designers or engineers - telling me HOW to catch THEIR drone that was specially designed to be caught. Until I read instructions of that sort, hand catching will never be for me.
There's an infamous, fairly recent video of pop singer Enrique Iglesias hand catching a drone onstage during one of his shows. He had done it dozens of times before as part of his act to train the drone camera on his audience instead of himself, no problem. The folks loved it and they flipped. You can be sure he had one of the best drone pilots available working with him, too, and that his handlers had EVERYTHING figured out and practiced down to the last detail.
But this night, as seen in this video, Iglesias falters or fumbles, and quickly finds himself grabbing onto the business end of the drone, flinging it quickly to the ground and then running offstage with several severely cut and bloody fingers. At the hospital he was diagnosed with a fractured hand and more complications than initially believed. His injuries were formidable.
Me, I like my fingers, nose and face just the way they are. They may not be perfect, but I appreciate their arrangement and symmetry. And if I ever DO decide to permanently alter them, it won't be by using an unfeeling, multi-bladed flying machine without anesthesia in the middle of a river or on the side of a mountain
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, I might try it in my kayak.
