There's some good advice for you there, Sunfish, especially from Say again s l o w l y & Chilli Monster. As noted, with an engine failure, there's a good chance that you lost oil pressure some time before so don't worry too much about prop pitch.
but I haven't noticed engine failure on final anywhere
You did glide approaches in your PPL training - unless you were close to the field/high enough when you closed the throttle you weren't going to make it.
Flying in the USA I got comfortable with the
power off turning approaches in the Pitts - not legal in Australia.