HI Keep your ears and eyes focast on the plane in flightmany times you will get a warning something is going wrong-a strange sound-a sudden change in a trim-no sound =dead stik-often you will have seconds to save the plane-always know were you will try to land the plane if any of the above gives you a chance to do so-always trying to land into the wind-as you will have a longer glide with a tailwindif you loose the back of a muffler -do not come down to an idle the engine will die keep the engine running on high end-as you no longer have the muffler pressure in the fuel tankwith the engine outgo to down elevator to increase your airspeed-stay off up elevatordo not get fancy and try to turn-land the plane as straight on as is possible-as you will loose airspeed in a turn using up elavator