to the above post....I have no GA flight experience, but isn't dead sticking a plane with a known good engine a really bad idea? doesn't that kinda go along with the citation pilot doing aerobatic manuevers? "Exericising" a plane sounds like a test pilots job.

And here is the Monday morning quarterback question. What if you had mis- judged the flight profile and landed 50 ft short of the runway? I may be totally missing something here and if I am I apologize for calling you out like this