The IFSD [in flight shut down] rate for light aircraft piston engines is
considerably worse, about 5 to 10 for every 105 hours.

That's one shutdown for every ten or twenty hours. I have not
experienced that rate, and I've flown piston singles for nearly a
thousand hours.

Jose
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