Yup,
1) C-152 total engine failure just after t/o landed in a dirt lot.
2) Once on a PA-28 during a power-off stall in a student was doing the engine quit and stopped then the starter wouldn’t work- we dove it till about 110 kts when it began wind milling and it restarted.
3) Just the other week on short final – throttle cable had broken (in half) so I killed the engine at about 200 agl.
4) In my friends plane we would practice deadstick landings at an old air force base; 10,000 ft long runway in his c-182. Usually kill the engine about 4000 agl and then glide it in.
While there has been a lot of pontificating about how dangerous this maneuver is – it helps build confidence to those whom have actually practiced the ‘real’ thing.
Perhaps if you all spend some time with a competent CFI-G soaring and learning how to effectively manage your energy than your view about powerless flight changes.
Given the right conditions, over a large airfield, good weather, no traffic, it is not a dangerous thing to practice. If it was then we should outlaw soaring!!!!