ORIGINAL: cappaj1
I've been reading through the forums and occasionally come across the term 'dead stick' and being a newbie, didn't know what it meant.
I checked Wikipedia and found the following description:
'A deadstick landing, also called a dead-stick landing or forced landing, occurs when an aircraft loses all of its propulsive power and is forced to land.'
So I wondered, why do they call it a dead-stick landing when the 'stick' isn't dead but rather the engine?
Anyway, my question is, I don't have a plane yet and am practicing on Real Flight G4 with my trainer, the Sig LT-40, and I see I can kill the engine with K key so should I be practicing landings with the engine killed alot or is it very uncommon for the engine to die while flying? I've been watching at local rc fields alot lately and have yet to see it happen. I plan on buying a OS Max AX 46 engine by the way.
Also, are there certain fuel mixtures that are less likely to cause an engine stall, ie. more nitro, etc.?
The worse thing you can do is panic. It always results with making a bad choice and stuffing the plane. If we could choose where theengine would quit in order to make a perfect landing, this would be great but we can't. It rarely ever happens in the right spot.
I see guys all the time have an engine quit and they try and force the plane around to land into the wind. Where it lands is usually in the dumpster. Just land downwind or whatever it takes. Doesn't matter.
If your engine quits, just bring it in. If you feel it won't make it back to the runway and it looks like it will go in the weeds, make a normal approach and slow it down as normal right into the weeds. Thing is to commit. To commit and then change your mind doesn't work well.