Originally posted by Jim Finn
The term "Dead Stick" refers to what a wooden propeller becomes when the engine quits...........A Dead Stick! My first 100 landings were dead stick landings. I learned to fly on R/C gliders. I now fly 40 sized electrics and often fly till I run out of electrons and dead stick it in.
I thought it was called a dead stick because that's what the control stick becomes without power. My first landing was a deadstick and it was on a plane that had an engine!