serious question, why flick to sports mode to land? I’ve not had an issue hand landing with mini 2 or air 2. Bring drone down, stick hand out, keep pulling stick down. it flies up 30cm when it sees your palm, then descends onto it.
The reason for not flipping is the gyro effect, flip it over when the motors are running and you could put immense strain on them.
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No sensors when in sports mode
I don’t buy into that. Flat hand everytime
In my experience, I’ve had the mini 2, 3 Pro and now the 4 Pro and they all were the same hand catching in normal mode … up and down like a yoyo 60% of the time! Put it sport mode as you bring it down and lands 1st time every time … so far. 
can’t say I’ve ever had an issue to be honest, but good to know for the future
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Possibilities …
- you didn’t realise you’d only ever used Sport Mode
- your hand is transparent
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only ever use cine or normal to land. Bring it in and pul down on the stick with habd underneath, it sees the hand, goes up and then comes back down to land? Is that not the way it’s meant to happen? I don’t use sports mode to land as both drones are set to atti mode for that function.
Same here, it hesitates for a few seconds then dumps itself 
‘ on my hand ‘ !
I’m not doing it any more, then, just landing on my hand in future.
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I remembered this thread while I was out yesterday and I did tests on some of my flights although with an Air 3. Another consideration seems to be to have your fingers apart so your hand looks more like a hand to the drone.
it decides straight away youre hand catching.
Drone seems to take longer to decide youre hand catching.
Once the drone does its very obvious descent into your hand you can move your fingers as needed to catch it.
They are very stretched out arms.
Would love to try an Inspire 3 or M350 if I had one 
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Extreme Sports toenail-clipping… and he’s not even wearing a safety helmet! Did they show this photo at the inquest?
By the time it reached the helmet it would probably be too late. #MoneySaved
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@Hotrodspike let me loose with his Inspire 1 at the Big Meet last summer, and I made the error of trying to grab just the one leg on landing.
Fortunately, John was at hand (pun intended) to warn me off trying as it would have most probably rotated towards my wedding tackle!
I dutifully obliged and aborted the attempt. Wasn’t going to chance it, however small the target was! 
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