steveeds said:
No problems, I would fly it like a crazy person, let it fall full speed straight down from 500ft then catch it at 60ft and watch it take 30 ft to pull to a stand still, huge fun. Those were the days when I never knew about prop wash (or anything). I treated it like a toy and it responded perfectly to being one the fun factor was the best, then I came here and now I'm scared to live and I look in the air all the time incase I get to catch a fly-away lol.
I think you hit the nail on the head there...
When one is not aware of issues, or potential issues, there's no fear of crashing just plain old good fun. Start reading about fly-aways, VRS, battery failures, solar flares, cosmic interference, black holes, time warps etc etc and suddenly one becomes paranoid and fearful of damaging or losing their machine. Often resulting in a mistake which leads to a crash!
It may be a poor analogy, but it's like when we were kids we had no fear of climbing trees or scaling steep hills, walking across a felled tree that lay across a creek or river. As one grows older one begins to think about danger, the 'what ifs' and suddenly the fear out weighs the fun potential and we don't do it.
My first P2V+ actually did fall out of the sky for some unexplained reason, but my second one has been incident free, so far. However, it has taken me a long time to regain faith in the machine and only now am I beginning to once again allow it to do what it was intended to do.
Fear is a terrible thing.
Get out there and fly it, have fun. Capture amazing footage that you will never get from standing on the ground with a camera. Get into the routine of following the correct procedures until you no longer think about those either. It only takes a couple of minutes of your time.