Originally Posted by
Aneas
To restart a hand start prop in flight involves a dive to near Vne and a hard pull to left or right depending on the rotation of the engine. It works, but uses some altitude up!!
Do not recall the hard pull to left or right bit, but remember reading that restarting a (hand-start) VW engine in flight lost so much height (with no guarantee of success) that it was usually much better to use the height to plan and execute a good forced landing without power. I suppose exceptions would be over water out of gliding range of land, over really hostile terrain or with LOTS of height, However, generally, this sounds like good advice to me.