What does it mean "Dead Stick"??

When you engine has failed and you are on the way down; the control stick has gone "dead".

loss of engine during flight operations
And if not handled properly by the pilot in command followed by the term re-kitted plane

It means you're earning a glider rating, too. My first glow engine powered flight ended in a deadstick landing, BTW.

I had such an unreliable( old, wornout, no compression.....) engine on my first plane that I only ever had 8 landings out of about 25 flights with the engine running.

I fly electrics and I dead stick land the plane about 75% of the time by choice. Motor off but all surface control working. Partly I just like to do it and partly it gives me practice for when I keep the plane up too long and the battery dies in the air. I guess running out of fuel on a glo plane would be the same thing.

I also fly sailplanes and, by definition, I am always flying dead stick. No motor!

oh ok... thanks very much!!!

the firts dead stick i had to tackle was quite easy.i had just taken of and it was about 20 meters in the airwhen the engin stoped.

Deadstick--------a condition that can be rectified using viagra........[sm=bananahead.gif]

Term dead stick was used to refer to the propeller as they were all made of wood originally....control stick doesnt go dead with loss of engine