Jay Honeck wrote:
Jay, I have to ask. Which do you think is going to have the greater
negative effect on your engine and/or general well being? A few
simulated engine outs every once in a while or landing 1/2 a mile
short after a real engine out?

Well, ya got me there. But, of course, the odds of a real engine out
are (thankfully) quite small.

That's the point. We practice lots of things that have pretty small odds of
actually happening. If things happen every flight or every 5th flight we
don't have to practice them because we do them.