Magnetos are less reliable than most other parts of an aircraft engine. I'm a relatively low-time private pilot and I've seen mag failures more than once in ai

Magnetos are less reliable than most other parts of an aircraft engine. I'm a relatively low-time private pilot and I've seen mag failures more than once in aircraft I've been in. That's one reason aircraft engines have two of them. You can continue flying with only one but you won't quite as much get as much power and if the other goes you'll have to land promptly using gravity instead of engine power. I like the idea of electronic ignition. Slightly unrelated, but here's a video I made of a simulated engine-out (autorotation) landing in a helicopter: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzWw5U3eCok http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzWw5U3eCok