Tinstaafl :
O.K.
I was negligent in my post when I used the broken mixture example and forgot to clearly tie that event into the cowboy, flamboyant agressive manner in which the check pilot performed the mixture cut off.
It was that idiot thoughtless agressive use of the mixture control that was in all likelyhood partly responsible for the lever breaking.
Also the airplane was a DC3... what do you think about sudden power reductions in a large radial engine?
The 337 is not used for multi engine training....it is two engine center line thrust training.
Do they let you fly any multi engine down there with a 337 endorsement?
As to more than one engine on each wing that is another subject and not really part of this discussion...oh you could have added BMEP as a quick reference with the four engine machines.
Anyhow to each his own, we are all free to use our airplanes in any manner we want to.
I'll stick with my methods, they have served me well over the years.
Just one more comment before some ace jumps into this and starts the " You have to make it realistic " argument. Here is a question for that mindset...do you set your engine on fire so the student experiences what the the real thing looks like, when you are teaching the engine fire proceedures?
Chuck