Charles Adams
Second Officer
Flight distance : 3821312 ft
United States
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My typical use case is ground launch and land (no gesture controls). This is because I don't prefer to use one hand in launching and then fumble with the control and phone for a few seconds (and given the battery life, seconds count).
There are circumstances where I will launch and retrieve from the palm, and that's where the environment is not suitable to launch from a flat surface. But even under those circumstances I'm hesitant to palm launch, because I did myself experience a "palm launch flop" (it lifted off from my hands, and promptly fell to the ground). I won't palm launch unless I know that should it fall it will and on a suitably soft surface. This has only occurred once for me, on the day I updated to everything current (August 21) and I've not been able to reproduce it.
I prefer ground landing for two reasons: To palm land I have to turn on gesture mode in the app and then do something safe with my rc+phone before I can land the craft in my hand (again, more seconds that I could use flying). Also, I think it's more fun/challenging to land the craft on my landing target than it is to catch it in my palm.
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