In rec.aviation.student Jim Stewart wrote:
Otherwise, here's a tip that works EVERY time:

If you're with a CFI, and he pulls the power to simulate an engine-out
condition, then it is absolutely guaranteed that you're over a runway
or something very similar to one.

My experience is that it's right behind me...

You know, this hardly ever happened to me for most of my training. My
pre-solo pattern work involved losing the engine abeam the numbers quite a
few times, but almost everything after that was over a field or something.

When it happened on my checkride, I was kind of surprised that there was
an actual runway down there.

.... Alan
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Alan Gerber
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