Flew the little Rollason Turbulent's (VW engine) for many years and loved and learned to respected them.
Learnt valuable lesson about engine handling quite early on when, through a moments brain fart forgot to keep the engine warm in the descent... lost the engine in the circuit after putting the power back on to find... ah, oops it stopped.
Luckily I got it on the runway after cutting everyone up on final (not popular) After landing, got out, pulled it off the runway and sat in the grass contemplating the error of my ways in a fair bit of shock.
Always taught to fly the circuit so that if the engine did quit, I'd have a fighting chance... well at least I did that bit right.
Since then I've been very mindfull of managing the engine in the right way and thankfully the prop's kept turning under its own power!
