Found this on the lab, the guy says it works pretty well:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/290781287178 (http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/290781287178)
You basically stick a sim in it, and phone it. Obviously put the sim in this before you lose the plane :laugh:
It sends you the location (accurate to ~250m) as it is not GPS (despite the cover), using triangulation from mobile phone towers.
Not bad for 11 quid.
I`ve bought one today, lets see how long it takes to turn up and how well it works :)
It's nice and cheap, but I'm a bit concerned about the within 250m part. I've been within a few m of a downed tricopter in long grass unable to see it at all, and if it wasn't for the lost model beeper, it would still be there.
I think this is for those occasions like when the X8 was lost quite a distance out, we weren't entirely sure how far downwind it had travelled.
Put it this way, if you can get a location on the correct field to start looking in, you're halfway there :) Saves traipsing through miles of countryside in a van with a tracking antenna trying to pick up a signal that may or may not exist (Vtx was mashed!).
Be interested to see how well it works Coyote :)
Fair point Steve, it's all relative. 250m when you are 1km out seems a bit useless, but a lot better if lost 10km+ out