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Seems a rather odd post. 'Fuel tank selector behind us' what is aircraft type please?
'Instructor did as as emergency landing exercise ' shutting off the fuel is not going to stop the engine immediately, if you were in the landing pattern it could have stopped very inconveniently at low level.
'I noticed the propellor had stopped' thought you would have noticed the engine spluttering to a stop before that.
Looking forward to the vid
Yeah something smells fishy here.
Unless you were super slow on descent the prop would have to be feathered for it to stop windmilling.
BTW intentionally starving an engine of fuel to 'simulate' an engine failure (
without adequate height to perform an air start in the event of electrical failure) is in my book a inexcusable, the risk involved is exponentially greater than the reward gained for the student.
Its not that everything went fine the last ten times they did it......its the final time that they do it they have to explain.............. and only if they are lucky/unlucky enough to explain it.