Ibrake..... Howdy, I assume that you have properly broken in that engine????? Some questions, are you throtteling a lot from high to low or are you pretty much in high gear when you fly?? Does it allways seem to die at or near the same time frame in your flights???? Do you do a lot of acrobatics,inverts,climbs,dives or do you slo fly???
As far as dead sticks... if you are real low when it dies then ya gotta just horse her in... If you have good altitude, trimming is important, I dead stick a lot, well allways actually, when I have elevation, I go into the soaring mode, which is slooooow gentle turns, I actually trim it to just before stall speed and "Knowing" which way I am gonna land, I take slow circles above 1/2 of the runway in the direction from which I expect to land this way the landing "legs" arent too long and with practice, you can tell if you need to float around one more time or dive and flair at the end of the runway...... It takes a lot of judgment calls on how you are loosing altitude and if I am just a little too high, I stretch the last circle out a little just before I bring her in, well actually before gravity and drag brings her in...... Hope some of this helps , just remember, What goes up, WILL come down! ....... Captain Crash... the name says it all...