I've been flying for a few months now, and I'm enjoying it immensly. The problem is that the closest airfield to me is 40 minutes away. I'm a student, so I really don't have the time or money for gas to do this very often.

Just across the street is a highschool and public park with massive fields of grass, but it's thick enough that it would just flip the plane over when it lands. The parking lots are usually empty, and they're pretty big, but I would never be able to get my plane to stop rolling on pavement before I ran out of room.

I'm considering putting some big heavy wheels on the plane to land on the grass, but I don't know how well that would work, and it would no doubt hurt performance. I'm also thinking about putting something on the wheels that create enough friction to slow the plane but not flip it so I can land on pavement. Fully functional brakes connected to the radio using servo's would be ridiculously expensive I imagine, but surely there are makeshift brakes.

I know a lot of fields have paved runways. How do most people stop their planes when they're landing on pavement? Just let it roll until it's going slow enough to steer?

The plane I'm flying is the Great Planes Big Stik 40: http://www2.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin...&I=LXBMM9&P=ML