Sorry to hear about the loss of your plane its tough to deal with....i remember when i lost mine....my heart sunk in my chest and i felt sick. i was mad cuz i had pilot error and should of been smarter...i put it up to high close to 800-1000 feet and looked away for one second and lost it. next thing i notice is someone pointing out to were it is....doing a dive going down at full speed. it happends to all of us ive been flying for 8 years and ive crashed 2 planes so far, both my fault lol

Now as for finding the plane....do you guys have anyone who flys real planes at all? There are a couple guys at our flying field who fly the real planes and sometimes they fly over our flying field looking for downed planes. they then can spot or notice the bright colors of the plane. and then get a good map that shows the area and pinpoint a somewhat more specific area where it would of gone down. if you know the general direction you so it nose down into then id head into that direction. setup landmarks and such. me and my dad did that for the plane i crashed, and actually walked pretty close to it, we didnt find it that day someone else did during the winter we marked out the general areas in the trees where we thought it went down and then proceeded to walk into that space and cover the area inbetween those 2 markers. we used trees for markers, like the taller tree, boulder, etc...that sort of thing. im sure you can recover it, and the electronics will still work i still use the receiver from this crashed plane that sat out at in the swamp/reed area for almost one entire flying season. the receiver works just as good as the day i got it, no glitches, nothing, its amazing what the electronics can take even though my battery was toast, lol it went flying thru the canopy and went into the ground about 1-2feet lol. wings split in half, but fuselage was fully intake, kinda surprised me.

you could buy a new plane to if you liked that way you could get to flying faster then you could have a backup plane to. well good luck finding your plane, im sure you will, and im sure the repairs on it wont be to bad for the fuselage, probably will require a little more work on the wing, good luck

David