Originally Posted by
treadigraph
Just as a further aside, waiting on the ground while a PPL friend was checked out in a C152 at Princeton in NJ, I was rather startled to see another C152 arrive on the runway dead stick. As it slowed, the engine restarted and the aircraft taxied in. Deliberate? Accidental? Lucky outcome?
An instructor I flew with at Ipswich in my pre-PPL days asked me to do a PFL over the airfield, in a C152. On finals he asked me if I was sure of making the runway. I said I was. He reached over, switched off the mags and put the key in the top pocket of his jacket.