"john smith" wrote in message
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In article ,
"Peter Dohm" wrote:

In any event, we climbed to a little more than 350 feet before I pulled
the
power to idle; and promptly began my turn back tothe runway.

Idle thrust is still quite a bit of applied power.
Instead of pulling the throttle (air), pull the mixture (gas).
This will give you a windmilling prop with all the associated drag.
When you are ready to restore power, push the mixture back in.
Try it and see how your results change.

To split hairs, idle power on a recip is really much less applied drag.

However your point is well taken. And the difference would be radically
more pronounced with a constant speed prop--as on a Turbo 210!

It would still be nice to have a safe way to realistically simulate engine
failures. As it is, "if you want to make omelet, you have to break eggs"
and I suspect that we are "breaking fewer eggs" with the current small
number of poorly handled engine failures than would be the case if we
attempted to train more intensively. The acrobatic/airshow guys do an
amazing job, but also encounter the problem more often.