Vote this up, people.
Also try to describe which servers are unable to load your character, and if you got lucky and were able to find the server which loaded your char, then name it here as well.

Also, here is another Issuer Report on the same problem, vote it up and comment:
http://feedback.dayzgame.com/view.php?id=78

I have same problem as well.
Let me try to describe it.
Character loss seems random to me. I have tried connecting to 6-7 servers. And on most of them I received "not been able to contact the central server to load a character" message. And I started as a new character after it, obviously. Only one of those servers was able to load my previous character. All others were not. All those servers were in different countries (Europe), so it does not relate to geographical location of the server. I tried connecting to both regular and hardcore servers (Stable branch). I do not have DayZ executable blocked in Firewall, I have Firewall switched off, if it does matter.
Please help.

This bug is back on today's 0.47.124621 stable patch. Tried sniping with my Mosin with long range scope and compensator attached but without a bipod and sway is all other the place.