ORIGINAL: jerzdvt
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Thanks for all that (too long to quote). This is so exciting! I just found out that there is a local club AND a club where I will most likely be interning this summer, so I plan on flying lessons at least once a week. Practicing the "dead stick" maneuvers sounds like a lot of fun, and I imagine that, while getting a dead stick is a royal pain, safely landing the plane must feel great.
I really can't wait to get a plane, and I really appreciate everyone's input. I look forward to the day when I have the experience to regurgitate all this to another newbie.
Thanks everyone.
The thing about a deadstick is some people panick. Truth is deadstick landings are not any harder than a regular landing, the main difference is you only have one shot at it. With this in mind I see people try to force a deadstick plane down and end up overshooting the runway when what they should have done was fly a circle or two to bleed off altitude before heading in.
I have had many deadstick landings, alot of them from a crappy Super Tiger 90 I had, and not a one of them was a bad landing.