I got a funny little story that happend to my brother-in-law when he was first learning to fly.He had been flying with an instructor
using a buddy cord and he showed up to meet the instructor to continue on getting leassons,he waited about an hour and the guy never showed up so he thought what the heck he had been doing good so he decided to fire it up and try it by himself.(OOOP'S)Well he got it up allright and made a turn or two before it got away from him.Around there flying field is several hundred acres of nothing but tall grass,he knew the general direction it went but that was it.His instructor showed up about 15 minutes after he lost the plane
and of course they had a few good laughs over what had just happened,then they got talking about how they could go about finding it.To make a long story short one of the member's who happened to show up was a real private pilot who owned a small plane and he ended up giving my brother-in-law a walki-talkie and he drove to the little airport where he kept his plane and flew over the area around the club field,spoted the model plane and directed my brother-in-law to it buy using the walkie talkie's.He got his plane back
and it was not even dammaged,the tall grass just absorbed the crash and diden't even break the prop. BIGMIG