"A good way to practice so that if and when you dead stick you will be some what prepared for it. Get your trainer way, way up in the air at least 5 to 6 mistakes high and then just cut the throttle to an idle (not a dead stick) and then see how long you can keep it in the air, it will want to stall and fall to one side so you will have to juggle the sticks kinda like balancing a bike. Thats basically all flying is about is a balancing act. You will have to keep your elevator and ailerons moving slightly to keep it airborne, well a little more elevator then ailerons anyway"

..Frost. I wish a good instuctor was by your side. I hate to imagine the frustration and $$ you may go thru while learning

IMHO, What Blackie suggest is good advice regardless the model. But I dont recommend you try it without a good instructor that can recover the plane if required.

I do this with most new airplanes on the first flight. But I usually take it one step further and stall the airplane several mistakes high and recover. You know, get to slow and the nose or wing drops. Basically at a safe altitude you can learn just how slow the plane will glide and can discover the planes stall habits.

I was very glad that I did this with a friends new Giles on the maiden flight. We found that when stalled the left wing would drop every time. This is definitely something you dont want to discover during a landing aproach that gets a little slow.

Good luck,
James