Don't let the 45minute drive keep you from buying the glow plane. Once you get it and drive 45minutes you will be glad you did. I have a buddy that drives about that long to come fly even though he can fly at the full-scale air port where he lives or in a football field. And about the engine dying on landing, if it is tuned good you will not have to worry about it. I have a Hobbico Superstar (which is almost the same plane as the Tower Trainer) with an OS .40LA and I have never had an unintentional dead-stick landing with it.