>> you get somewhere near the airport, the instructor pulls the throttle back and says, "Your engine quit." The first time mine did this was on downwind in the

>> you get somewhere near the airport, the instructor pulls the throttle back and says, "Your engine quit." The first time mine did this was on downwind in the pattern. I looked forward at lots of farmland and said "how about there?" He pointed left and said "you got a perfectly good runway over there." I said "oh you really want me to do this, I better make my turn." IIRC I made the landing but not really near the numbers :-)