Ok, hands up and red-faced
I might have unintentionally misled some of you good guys and gals with my use of "PFL". (I hope you'll forgive me, I didn't do either my flight training or ground school in English).
We were over the airfield at 2000', positioning for an "encadrement", in which the pilot is required to close the throttle and hopefully land on the runway. Highly unusual to pull the mixture as well, though, at least in our club.
Reading your replies (thanks
), I'm a little surprised that for some of you at least, landing onto a runway with engine stopped is not unusual? It seems a risk too far imho. What if the engine doesn't restart in some unexpected situation? Are you ever 100% guaranteed to make a runway, even in the most benign conditions? What if you misjudge the wind, what if the runway is unexpectedly occupied? What if you overshoot?