Actually, this is a case where "leccy" wouldn't have been any better. An electric powered model will still go deadstick when you've used up the battery. You can, of course, underestimate the flight times and make sure to get down early which is also the best plan for IC engines. Either gas or electric charge will go faster or slower depending on what you're doing in the air.

My problem came for believing that time engine runs on the ground equated to time in the air. It wasn't. Not even close! I ran the engine for 15 minutes AFTER a 15 minute flight (which was probably mostly at half-throttle or so). The very next day, I ran out of gas in about the 16th minute of a flight where I was probably using a bit more than half-throttle through most of the maneuvers.

But I will conceded the with electric you don't risk the random engine-out problems of IC power and for multi-engine models that's absolutely critical.

I still can't used to the idea that we now actually have disc brakes for RC models! But I guess it's been a idea that has been around from the very beginning of flying. For example, the Albatros CI I'll be doing had a "claw" brake on the undercarrriage sort of like tossing out an anchor!