Thanks for your excellent, thorough article on engine-loss training ("Engine-Out Training") in the August 2021 issue. It reminds me that, in my experience, most of the training involves the procedure for restarting the engine. This is one-third of the response needed. The other two-thirds are: 1: Pick a field 2: Set up to land in it (3: Try to restart the engine) This is the way pilots of self-launching sailplanes train. Try to restart the engine only after taking care of the fly the airplane business. Relative to your article, in my limited personal experience, every engine failure has been due to running a tank dry. Therefore, top of the checklist. I do feel that it is also extremely important for students to learn that an aircraft can safely glide to landing, and about the changing perceptions of height and apparent speed as one gets closer to the ground. The safest, in my experience, is not to glide to the furthest possible field (though a demonstration of how well the aircraft glides at idle is also very instructive), but to fly a circling approach from above the airport.
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