RE: what causes this?
I've had the same thing happen to me. What I found was that when I had the transmitter on my flight box the bind button was resting on the flight box handle so when I turned it on the bind button was depressed and I would lose my bind. I have never lost a bind in flight.
I imagine your bind button was depressed somehow when you turned your radio back on. I took me a while to figure out what was going on with my radio.