Feather or Simulated Feather: what's the usual?
Recently an experienced pilot told me that he flies practice instrument approaches (flying school stuff) with a fully shut down engine, for MECIR training.
An alternative is obviously to do the training with a simulated feather scenario.
I'm wondering which is more common, or whether both are regarded as common practice. I would have thought that doing full shutdowns was quite rare these days, once or twice in each student's flying school experience. Is that not so?
Now there are many threads of anti-mixture-cut rants, pro-mixture-cut hobby horses, CASA-requires-shutdowns speeches, etc. This isn't the place for that, please.