I got a chance yesterday to go and fly a the club field with my AXN and Ramzibi OSD and the Phoenix with the Cyclops Tornado. The AXN flight will be published later.
 The weather was clear and sunny but in Hope there was a strong wind. Many times our club field is shaded form the wind by the mountain basin it's situated. There wasn't anyone around so if you fly FPV there is always that chance the unthinkable can happen.. The Phoenix is a dream to fly as I wrote before
but this time she is loaded heavier in the nose with the Cyclops and a 2650 LiPo.
I launched her and got it up to a safe altitude sat down and went to the goggles. The camera video wasn't the best but with a little adjusting it was fine. The OSD was working and the airspeed was hard to get a reading because of the wind since it has a true pilot tube. As I was flying around the video was interrupted by static that seemed to come and go. I turned to fly away from myself, was at about 67 meters up when I noticed something flashing on the display. Took me a second to figure out what it was and it wasn't good. I lost my signal! At the same time the camera went out but still had the OSD. Pulling the goggles off I tried to see if I could guide it back but saw nothing! Goggles back on but no reception.
Looking out in front of me was a mountain about 1 click away, corn field and then the farm house and barns. Wind was strong by this time and up stairs was even more.
 Have you ever had that sickening feeling in the pit of your stomach? I couldn't believe what has just happened. I lost a plane and $300.00 worth of flight gear!! Packing up my stuff I drove up the gravel road a ways and parked. I walked a large grass field where my last known position was, the search area was so big that the reality was like looking for a needle in a haystack! Wind drift could easily drag the glider a long ways off and into the mountain.
 I was beside myself... walked up a road to the power lines... gone! I never lost a plane in my flying, they are usually stuck up a tree and we would have to leave it till the next day and once I lost a Cricket Helicopter in a pond which I had to find a diver to rescue it.
I searched some other field along the flight path and then went home to face the wife. I e-mailed the owner of the field we rent to let him know a plane is missing and most likely is in the corn field, but I wasn't sure...
 Around 8 pm the phone rang and it was Henry the owner... I found our plane, he said.. I didn't know how to respond because it might mean it hit the house or barn which would kill our club field. I asked where did you find it? "In the cranberry bog" That was 400 feet behind me and the last video image was 1000 feet in the opposite direction... which means the Cyclops RTH (Return To Home) which automatically kicks in if signal is lost actually worked. I've had tried a lot of electronics this year that was advertised to be the best for this and that but failed to live up to the my expectation.
Had I took the goggles off and sat and waited... the plane would have come back in spite of the cross wind where I could have possibly gained control of it and land it unharmed. My faith was tested and I failed to believe!
The Phoenix is done but the equipment is safe thanks to an automatic RTH system which was the reason I spent the $200. to start with.