In the last couple of years I have seen several accidents when control of gassers were totally lost for unknown reasons. (There was not much left so any post-mortems were not possible.) Luckily no one was injured. All three planes crashed away from the field - one was about a mile away.

Putting aside good practices to prevent signal loss, what do you all do to minimize the chance of your airplane disappearing into the distance completely out of control?

I have set up my receivers so that if there is loss of signal the controls default to engine idle (or ignition cut off), some up elevator, left aileron, and right rudder with the hope that the plane might sort of forward slip to its demise in the local area.