Forced stalls
We live near Jandakot airfield, so hear planes' engines cutting out all the time. It took a while to get used to and now we no longer look up expecting a light aircraft to come tumbling out of the sky.
( SteamedCleaner, Mon 1 Apr 2013, 2:23, 2 replies)

Another Perthian!
Howdy from the Norther 'burbs - looks like it might be time for another bash. If I can just convince BeatsWork to take me off 2.0...

It's actually quite un-nerving when the engine cuts out - all you can usually hear is the wind and knowing the prop should be turning when it isn't isn't such a good feeling.
Fucking magical sound in a glider tho! If I was going to do any flying it would be in a glider again.
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Mon 1 Apr 2013, 4:19, closed)

I grew up by RAF Shawbury
One of the main military helicopter training centres in the UK.

They teach engine stall/autorotates, amongst other things, and truly you do get a tiny loss of sphincter control the first time you watch a happily hovering helicopter drop out of the sky like a stone and keep falling past the horizon. But the bang and the flames never come, and slowly and shakily the helipoter reappears.

Mind you, I imagine the trainee pilot shits themselves much more.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 2 Apr 2013, 9:46, closed)