WOW :
I shouldn't read the instructors thread, just scares the hell out of me to read what some people get away with as flight instructors.
I will not do the following.
(1) Use a fuel shut off to fail an engine.
(2) Use the mixture to fail an engine.
(3) Practice go arounds on one engine below a safe altitude and never less than 3000 above ground.
(4) Fully feather an engine unless it must be feathered due to a mechanical failure.
Before anyone starts all the B.S. about how important it is for a student to see a propellor stopped all you have to do is let them look at it before you start the engines on the ramp....and I have probably flown more miles with engines shut down and feathered than most on here, and it was never comfortable, especially way up in the high Arctic hundreds of miles from the nearest airport.
Now I know a lot of you out there are going to jump all over my methods, but I am still alive and instructing on large multi engine piston airplanes. And I have managed to get through some where around thirty thousand hours flying most everything with wings or rotors. And never smashed one up.
Just my thoughts on all this for what ever its worth.
And all the best in the new year and all those after....
Chuck E