I had a flame out at 1,000ft on a beta approach final in a PC6 (20 years ago) and the prop feathered no problem without touching the power lever.
If it happens you will feel it straight away , that beautiful big air brake feeling goes away and you'll see the approach angle changing.
I had to do a big S turn and a sideslip to bleed off height , the PC6 glides beautifully
After landing the engine started straight up.
The engineer thought the cause of the flame out was I had ran the collector tank in the tail dry due to the angle of descent (typically 38 degrees nose down) plus he found some undocumented mods to the fuel system done by the previous operator (military). I had 30 mins of fuel remaining in the tank , this was the last sortie before refuelling.
As we were operating out of a private air strip our typical pattern was joining downwind at 10,000ft, turn onto base at 6,000 then finals at 3,000 holding Beta down to 300 to 500ft depending on conditions.
2.5 min descent from 12,000ft.
Last edited by aseanaero; 30th November 2017 at 13:14.