I remember a chief pilot challenging me to a 'practiced forced landing/glide approach' in a chieftain for fun, was pretty easy to aim well into the field and manage the gear and then flaps incrementally to touchdown on the markers. I do remember a half joking remark about practicing for departing on auxs or running too thin on the margin fuel. Maybe that's the problem now, pilots don't look at the exercises as fun challenges of skill, a way to self improve, maybe rather some sort of tested torture.