has anyone here actually ever killed an engine while in flight? I'm talking on a C172 ect. Not a twin.

Accidentaly, once. I was a student and my CFI was doing a simulated emergency. I was a few hundred feet from touchdown and was going through the "just before you crash" checklist, that includes pulling mixture to idle/cutoff. Well, I pulled it just like the checklist told me to.

The instructor pushed it right back in and the engine started within a few seconds, but that was good enough for me.

We do have an instructor that pulls mixture on his students in the pattern. Not something that I would ever do.

When you actually kill the engine you have put yourself in an actual emergency situation. If you can't get it restarted, then you could have a big problem, especially if you are not within gliding distance of an actual airport.

I dont think you would gain anything out of actually killing the engine. Too much can go wrong, and their is no reason why it should be done. I would advise against doing it.

Yeah, I "killed' an engine in flight when I was opening a beer which was located in the baggage compartment while on the ILS in IMC, but hey, its okay, I wasn't rated in the plane.

Now, were there any other violations I wanted to post here??



(and for the FAA if they happen to be reading: this post was sarcasm!)

Back when I started my training I had a yahoo instructor that killed the engine on me while I was in a stall. The prop stopped, when I went to hit the starter he said no, did a wing over and dived to get the prop turning. I didn't fly with him much longer after that.

When flying an 8KCAB I took it to 13k and spun it down to 3k. After about 6 turns in the spin the fuel in the fuel lines was used up and the engine stopped due to fuel starvation from the fuel being pulled away from the inlets. I guess you can say it was intentional because the 10k ft spin was intentional.

nope, my old instructor did it once to me though. The worst thing I do to my students is convince them that we are going to land in a field following a simulated emergency. They look at me like I am crazy, then when I say "Go-Around" I hear them sigh with relief. Works the first couple of times then they know I won't actually make them do it.

I've had an engine quit a couple times. My Dad sure wishes they would've made an automatic tank changer for those planes without the "both" option on the selector. That one tank always seems to run out at the worst possible time.

I had a really lame CFI once. He loved to turn off the fuel selector during "simulated" engine outs. He also would show up for flight lessons totally hung over. During a stall, he once made the plane go into a spin to teach me a lesson. Yeah, he sucked. I hope he is no longer flying. I would hate to run into him mid flight.

A CFI at the airport that I used to train at shut off the fuel flow in a 152 on a student in the pattern, once. This happened a couple of years ago and they ended up in the grass, short of the runway when they couldnt get it re-started. Rumor has it that this particular instructor is now flying at Pinnacle.