I live in a very forested area and have lost some planes and copters. More than I want to remember ;-) Not even far from my house but the forest is so thick that it could be 1 meter from you and you wouldn't' see it. I live on the edge of the largest urban forest in the world.
So I've been looking for a decent locator. There are so many options out there. Just not sure which is the most useful. What keeps popping to the top of my list is this one.
http://www2.pmb.co.nz/blog/pages-fixed-misc/rc-general/tracker/lost-model-tracker/
A bit expensive but I could have bought several already with the copters etc that I've lost.
Sometimes I think that something very simple that would just give a high pitch blast at certain intervals, getting further and further apart to conserve energy. Just an audible beacon. In most cases that would be enough.
I just need it to last at least a few days or a week. At first I thought the xbee giving telemetry was enough but soon realized that you only had some minutes to find it before it stopped getting power.
So is anyone using one of these methods or know of another?
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