I fly 1/2a stuff too and almost all of my landings are deadstick so I usually do it with my larger planes too,,once with my .25 trainer I was a bit low and it died and I sort of paniced and went to make a sharp turn to get back to the landing approach that I wanted..well, it absolutely fell out of the sky and no room to recover...I know now just to let it glide down and go walk to get it....slow,small inputs...Rog