Had a real one during my training at 900ft QFE on the climb out with Instructor say beside.
PFLs were something that I struggled with, hence the Instructor regularly sprang mock engine failures on me with a number of scenarios.
As a result, both our responses were immediate, well drilled, and we got back in without too much stress. Good teamwork lead to us being pretty chilled about it on finals albeit with a dead engine. Was straight back in the seat the following week.
So, no surprise for me with our successful outcome. And as a PPL today, I still practice them.
My advise would be to know your local area around your home airfield well as you will have far less time to respond than being at 3000ft plus in the cruise over the country side. And when I say well, look at the local features such as power lines that might interfere. I spoke to someone who also had an inflight failure and asked them why they diverted when it seemed apparent that they could return. Low power lines in the vacinity of the approach was the response.
