What happened was pilot stupidity. I wanted to drain my batteries down to storage level of about 50%, so I went out in my front yard to basically launch and hover. It was overcast and a bit windy, but nothing I haven't flown in before. I got 8 sats on the ground, but it would not get to the press fly to start motors option. I shut everything down and reset, with the same problem happening again. Since I have taken off in manual before and flown, I switched to manual mode and right away got the press fly to start option. I took it up about 8ft and the wind blew it back over my head towards the house. I compensated, and added altitude to about 30ft. I brought it back towards me, then lost signal between the controller and Solo. The signal never came back, and then I lost sight of Solo behind the house and trees. Talk about panic. I drove back behind my house to the big church parking lot and searched with no luck. I just knew it was in some tree somewhere, or worse, crashed somewhere. I searched for about an hour before I realized that in a city setting, I was out of luck. I came home sick and just on a lark I placed a lost ad on Craigslist offering a reward. The next morning a lady called from the church and said a guy who belongs to the church found it in their quad area. I went over, and found their quad area was all grass, and Solo had landed upright, with not a scratch on it. The guy who found it went as far to take the sd card from the camera to see if it might hold a clue as to who owned it. He passed the reward on to the church, and I returned home one very happy camper. I sent the logs to 3DR, and like I knew they would, it was bad judgement on my part flying where I did, and with everything all around, the signal did not have much of a chance when the wind took it over the house. I have flown since, and had no problems at all. Now, I took a picture of all my contact info with "Reward Offered" in red and that will remain on my sd card. So that is my story on why I am adding the Marco Polo to my bird. Learn from my mistakes, fellow Solo pilots. I hope none of you have to feel like I did that day....