Crab
Sorry it's late as on holiday in South Africa but and it is a big but you certainly know if the donkey has given up in a piston engine as the machine has yawed by about 45 to 90 degrees in a split second ! Seeing as many are taught on Pistons there reaction is qued by this rapid yawning with punching the lever down. So your assertion that they don't know what is going on is false. Now in a turbine that would be true. I do throttle chops in both types, all pilots react quicker in a piston because of its reaction probably just as well as most don't have a high inertia head. In a 300 at 60 it's , auto speed 48 kts snap the throttle and the rrpm is off the green with a yaw of about 45 degrees. By the time the lever is down.Thankfully this type really drops its nose with the lever down so easy to restore rrpm. Part of the lesson though is to always try and fly above best auto speed so you have energy to play with. Back to the pool now. Although my only engine failure was at 80 ft and about 35 knots,just bent the rear cross beam