This plane is an awesome plane for dead stick landings. I have had 2 unintentional dead stick landings and several intentional. I know... that sounds weird.

When I was doing my pilots license, one of the things we were forced to learn was forced landings - landings where something has gone wrong and you have to put the plane down now. I loved learning about forced landings because it teaches you to land from any position in the shortest possible time with the least damage possible to the plane. I never got to do a real forced landing, but practicing it was always fun.

When I started with RC planes I very quickly learned that they are far less reliable than their full-scale counterparts. So I spent hours on the simulator killing the engine and landing the plane. Now, one of the first things I do when I get a new plane is learn to dead stick the plane from various positions. The advantage is that you learn what the plane is and isn't capable of with no power. With deadstick practice I normally take the plane up pretty high on a calm day, kill the engine and then land her. As I say, I have done several of these with the Twist and it is probably the best dead stick lander I have.

Twice, however, I have had unintentional deadsticks. The first one was coming out of a stall turn. The engine died nose up and I didn't realize I didn't have an engine until I tried to give it throttle to pull out of the dive. I was high enough for it not to be an issue and she landed like a dream.

The second was very shortly after a touch-n-go landing. I was climbing out and the engine leaned and died. The clunk got stuck at the front of the tank. This was a little tougher because I was only about 20 feet above the trees at the end of the runway and I was heading away from the field. I'd taken off into a reasonable head wind so when I turned around I was worried that I was going to get stuck in the trees.

Fortunately, I had enough altitude to clear the top of the trees and I came back into the field. There's about 80 feet from the ground to the tree tops so I managed to circle the plane all the way round and land into the wind! I had exactly the same thing happen to me the same day with my Extra and there is no way that I could do anything but turn 180 deg and land with the wind... hairy landing.