Airforce7,
I have fixed gear and no wheelbrakes (not needed here) for simplicity.
As you say, without some kind of airbrake they float forever. What power is in yours? A P-120? And is your thrust vector pitch only like mine?
When my Rookie was in an inverted stall I tried all the controls, starting with elevator down and up, and I opened the throttle first to half then fully. But it would not come out of the stall. It just fell slowly in a level inverted attitude.
It was only when I flipped the airbrake switch which lowered the brake and flipped the canards to +60 degrees that it immediately flew out of the stall, still inverted, as nice as you like.
Maybe I could have given it more time at full power, but I was getting kind of edgy by then.

Carbuncle,
I see that your thrust vector is two-axis, with yaw. What engine power have you fitted? A 120 or more?
How do you (or did you) manage to get in and out of inverted stalls and spins, and even upright ones? Do the controls work at all when stalled with idle power? Do you need full power or does half power work? Do you need the thrust vectoring active or will it recover with vectoring switched off?

There are lots of models out there with canards, Eurosport, Saab Gripen, Rafale, etc etc. Do they lock in to a stall like the Rookie? If so how do you get them out?

I don't want to trash my model exploring all these corners of the flight envelope if someone has been there before.
Thanks all of you,
Alasdair