Lost my 2 meter Poly Pulsar yesterday
dumb dumb dumb

I had been flying it with a Sky King Lost Model Locator, but recently took it out to connect up a RAM3 altitude logging device. AR6250 Rx was running out of pins. Been having some great, high flights (1700 feet) and wanted to have a log of flight duration, sink rates, etc.
Well yesterday, I stayed with a big CU, sharing a thermal with a hawk, drifting downwind for too long. When I went to come back to my field, wind aloft had increased, and I wasn't making headway, at altitude, so dived a bit towards my location with flap (first mistake?) . Now tried to stay lower, with power, but couldn't see orienation of wings; kept looping, or steep turns losing altitude.
Finally lost it below first tree line, cut power and selected full flaps hoping to find it in a field. Had the RAM3 on board too.
Well, after two days of walking a line, with GPS from launch site to tree ridge it went behind, no luck. Lots of thick, thick forest, Pulsar could be very high in canopy too.

Now we are getting stong rain and wind, end of the Pulsar, even if I can find it. Was going to try a tree top recon mission with my Ascent rigged up with video cam today, but wind never let up.

So there has to be an answer to losing these sailplanes. Maybe next time I launch an expensive sailplane, I will have the Walston system on board. Would have saved me a lot of grief. I hope none of you ever have to look for a nice sailplane like this.

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LML might have helped, but there is a lot of woods here where it went down. LML does work with AR6250 if you follow instructions on SkyKing web site. I'll be flying with a LML in everything now! graph is from Pulsar a few days ago