Colin:

I've been thru the SIMCOM school on the PC12 and have about five
hundred hours in it. I'm guessing that should have read 12.7 to 1.
Because SIMCOM's program is designed for relatively low time pilots
with not a lot of exprience flying high performance birds, my sim
instructor was letting us shoot most of our approaches with the engine
shut down and the prop feathered. He was also a glider pilot and
understood energy management. By flying a bit fast and a dot and one
half high on the glide slope, (and holding on the landing gear until
DH), it was possible to make dead stick approaches. Non precision
approaches were a bit harder with no engine. Because the sim is
non-motion we also did akro in it, that is loops and rolls. All that
in sunny fla. in the dead of winter. Billy Hill, Zulu