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Nothing wrong with that way as you do what most of us do on the last flight and get the experance of a dead stick landing - But you and I dont do it every time we go up - except my Skydivers , and they are expected to not have power like gliders

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I've had to keep one eye on my plane and the other eye on someone else's malfunctioning / deadstick plane countless times....it's part of the sport. The vast majority of deadsticks I've seen that were not intentional had nothing to do with running out of fuel.
You can choose to either accept this as part of the deal when you take part in this sport, or not.
Don't sweat the small stuff.

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Read this for the solution chosen http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=9513845

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I say just keep deadstickin if ya don't want to mess with a timer. Guys that do that all the time are able to provide re-build projects or scrap balsa for the trash cans! Can't tell ya how many things I've used deadstick landing balsa for to fix or add to a project.

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Well, I have crashed my share of planes for one reason or another,,,only 2 in 10 years due to deadsticking in...for me its the same thrill as doing a perfect loop, if I mess up a loop I can go around and try again,,,but, once I run out of fuel, I have one chance to bring it in...thats the thrill....I generally fly alone during the week, but I could tell you the 5 guys that will be at the field saturday and they know, I'm gonna yell out deadstick, but if someone said hey, I'm dropping a parachute or skydiver, I wouldnt go up till they were done..I dont think I have ever seen more than 3 planes up at the same time at my field even though we have 100 members and 2 fields....I have had 1/2a events (no throttle) with more participants than pattern events here.....Rog

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Thanks - Thats what the guys at the field do when we drop a Skydiver and everbody is happy - Heck they even invite me to talk at the meetings sometime and have fri morn breakfast each week as right now its to cold to fly in Mn- come summer we will continue the Fri Breakfast Club if weather is not good to fly or jump

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Them early morn trash can looks sure do keep me in a good supply of balsa and many other small goodies , Nice to get to field before flying time with a few friends and a cup of hot coffee and go- Trash Can diving

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I kind of like my talking timer. I don't have to look down at it to see how much time I have left.
http://www.amazon.com/Compact-Talkin...6971868&sr=8-1

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If you have an iPhone there is an talking app for that.;)<div>
</div><div>It's called Talking Timer.</div>

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Keep calm, everybody......

Don't no one have a panic attack if I show you this one.

It lands dead stick every time.

No need to act like a girl about it, screaming out "DEADSTICK[X(]"

It's part of the sport.

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What is two dead sticks happen at the same time?

It happened to me last weekend.

There were four models in the air, and another pilot and myself voiced "deadstick" at the same time.

Then, I didn't know which one was the plane coming down to share the strip with me.

I happened to land first, and both models were just fine.

For some reason, my few perfect landings have been after the engine quits in mid air; may be is the lack of thrust or a better mental concentration for that only chance to land.

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When I was in England, I went to the Wings and Wheels Extravaganza at the North Weald field near Harlow, UK. Ripmax models was flying their Ripmax Rapier, a flying wing. They had, oh, 15 or so models, all on separate radio channels. They were all aligned on the ground, the picture only shows a few. It was pretty neat to see, then they flew them.

Since it was a manufacturers demo flight, they didn't really care if they mid-air'ed so they flew in formation. at one point, 18 went up, 12 landed safely. The other 6, well, anyway, I was to busy watching to take pictures of the mid-air's. Was quite impressive, to say the least.

CGr.

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[X(]!! CGR, that would be quite a sight! I've never seen anything close to that........3 up at a time pylon racing is the closest to that. They can midair too, which is a sad fact.

LNEWQBAN, it's an ackward moment, huh? I guess all you can do is communicate and try to clear the runway.