Hi all, has anyone ever tried to hand toss a Mavic from significant heights with the propellers half-on?
Scenario: I live in a skyscraper and to take advantage of the height and clear line-of-sight I occasionally fly the drone in safety from the terrace. As I'm surrounded by (smaller) buildings, I would be forced to shorter distance and no LOS if I launched it from the ground. As the building is obviously made of steel, I hand-launch and hand-recover the MPP to avoid compass interferences.
Now, as I don't have a terrace surrounding all sides, to keep LOS and maximise signal transmission, I occasionally launch from a closed balcony when flying east. Which is an extra challenge.
In order to launch fully extend the right arm and keep the drone diagonally above my head and plants, so that propellers don't get caught into anything, and start them with the remote laid on a surface. Then I just gently pull the throttle and once I get liftoff I send it quickly away from me.
I usually start in Vision mode, without waiting for GPS lock, but allowing the drone to do so while hovering over a secure spot at the communal garden, to make sure it is recorded as the home point, and only then I let it fly away.
To hand-catch it, I usually turn it backwards (I could disable the collision detection, but backwards I also get a proper right-left orientation in case wind forces me to correct the direction). It never happened, but if I fail to hand-catch it due to sudden wind, I would just land it on the terrace or - as the last resort- on the ground and then recover it later.
I hate to say it, but the hand-launch is always more adrenalinic than the hand-catch, because with the latter you can always abort and try again or switch to the contingency plan. With this particular hand-launch, you are yet to fly.
Now the question: has anyone ever tried to toss a mavic from a balcony with the propellers on at min speed, to suddenly increase the throttle and distance right after? How would it react if failing to increase the throttle, is it smart enought to hover or would it fall down?
I was wondering if I could try tossing it on a bed or sofa, in safety. Has anyone ever tried?
Disclaimer: obviously all this is done only in low wind conditions. Done it a dozen times, no issue.
