Originally Posted by ToiletDuck

How about when the CFI is suprised with one. Today I had a guy that for some reason just couldn't do anything right today. We are climbing to do upper airwork and I tell him to level off at 4500 and maintain 90kts for steep turns. He climbs up then while I'm looking to clear the area I just hear the engine die. Instead of pulling the power he yanked out the mixture. The prop stopped which I had never seen before, I'm guessing slow airspeed with higher angle of attack. So I go through the restart procedure and for some reason the prop wouldn't turn. I don't know if you're required to turn the key to the "off" position before trying to restart or not. That isn't in the checklist. But I tried 3 or 4 times and no luck. So I just nosed her over and around 115kts the prop started windmilling again, pushed in the mixture, off we flew into the wild blue lol. Just eerie looking out the side then hearing the eninge go VVRRROOOOOOOMMMMMMmmmmmmm kaput lol.