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Old 04-22-2002 | 12:16 PM
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Default what is a dead stick? i keep seeing this all the time.

Raghfrost,

Let me ease your mind a bit on the float flying trick. It depends on the kind of plane you have as all trainers will float quite nicely. The fact that I mentioned placing your plane up high very high give's you the ability to recover on a mishap which is not likely to happen with a trainer. Trainer's do not tip stall out of the sky meaning that they will come spinning to the ground. Once you have soloed and are flying on your own you will know what I mean.

I just took a look at your plane on the other thread and it appears that by looking at your plane you should not have any problems with it, and the OS are good dependable engines however all engines flame out from time to time no matter what kind it is thus causing a dead stick.

All I was trying to do was to help get you prepared for when the time comes that you may have to do a dead stick land.

Randy