I use telemetry but I also use the method that @The Editor describes. Once you master that exercise the anxiety that can result with loss of orientation is much reduced. Here is a nice video demonstration.
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If you learn how to hand catch or launch and use it when appropriate, it is not cavalier and in some cases, it it the only way to operate in a given circumstance. If you are uncomfortable, or un-practiced, then you should avoid it until you are. PPE relative to the risk associated with the particular craft is also a factor of course.
As an aviator, I'm sure you wouldn't characterize as "cavalier" someone with training and practice hand propping a vintage aircraft. Someone trying it that is not trained and practiced is a moron, not cavalier, IMHO. And the consequences of doing this incorrectly are generally permanent.
It kills me to watch someone hand launch a drone.
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If you learn how to hand catch or launch and use it when appropriate, it is not cavalier and in some cases, it it the only way to operate in a given circumstance. If you are uncomfortable, or un-practiced, then you should avoid it until you are. PPE relative to the risk associated with the particular craft is also a factor of course.
As an aviator, I'm sure you wouldn't characterize as "cavalier" someone with training and practice hand propping a vintage aircraft. Someone trying it that is not trained and practiced is a moron, not cavalier, IMHO. And the consequences of doing this incorrectly are generally permanent.
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