No its not an ego thing....
Rather we have such little control of so many things....For example

We are hanging a $3000 plane on the fact that a small #4 bolt is going to hold....hanging on some work and structure that was done a year ago....a small tugsten coil inside the glow plug......a single screw into the servo arm on the elevator.....a single small signal wire into that elevator servo....a single small wire as the antenna to the RX.....a single small crystal in the RX.....a single small contact in the switch.....and on and on......not to mention that when that plane slips the surly bonds of earth you are flying on a radio wave that you can't see, you can't touch, is subject to interference, and must be received without noise, and perfectly encoded in order to perform the perfect 4pt or 1.5 snap....

There are so many things that can fail in a complicated machine like a model airplane....There are so many times that the fun ends without it being our choice.....

As far as I'm concerned killing the motor on landing is a way of telling the universe that for this small operation, for the making and taking of fire that sits inside that 1.4cu-in chamber....for this small moment in time...

I am in charge! its me the pilot that has the control...not the small little things that can help me end it on their terms.....but my TX and my thumb flipping the switch!

It all boils down to a measure of control.

BECAUSE I CAN!

Troy Newman
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Team JR, YS