Engine Failure Poll

On one of my phase checks the guy I was flying with called for a go around on final, I added power and got vibration and about 300 rpm. I pulled the power out, and tried again slowly got the same so I just landed. Nothing particularly exciting - which is just the way I like it!
 
I just had the throttle cable snap at full throttle in a warrior. Cut the mixture over the numbers and that was that.
 
I had one happen when giving an intro flight to a prospective student last summer. Had to glide it in to the nearest private field.
 
Fly newer model airplanes with a good mx program and don't rush the runup. This is no fun though because doing long runups on a new plane that is properly maintained gets expensive. Much cheaper to fly an old rusty jingle bell type of plane and skip the run up.

Or, I guess you could strap a turbine engine to your GA trainer.
 
several partial power losses and a couple shutdowns but the only time i ever saw the prop stopped while training was my own fault....and it quickly started back again.
 
Anyone ever flown through a really bumpy cloud, then tried to pull back the throttle to slow down to Va but the bumps were so bad that you missed the throttle and pulled back the mixture instead?

I uhh, know a uh, guy who did that...
 
No engine failures here (knock on wood) Just a complete electrical failure justs as we pulled of the runway after my instrument checkride.
 
Yes...One engine failure in a twin, total power loss....The manifold that comes of the turbocharger well....came off I guess, caused a total power loss. Luckily we were at 8,000' climbing and turned around and went back. Scary as heck when it happened, it was the classic yaw and roll into the bad engine. But it sounded horrible when it happened, like a huge backfire even in the cockpit.

Came close to not being able to start an engine after we had shut it down. (Although it seemed like the fuel injected/turbocharged engines are waaay more tempermental than a Seminole O-360)....it wasn't a Seminole, we turned back to the airport and were getting ready for a single engine approach and we tried to start it one last time and it started....
 
Not really a total engine failure, but during my PPL night flight, we were doing the 10 take off and landings. After the 9th landing I retracted the flaps and went full throttle. About 50 feet off the ground the engine started sputtering bad. We were too high to land it back on the runway so my CFI and I both went through the checks and that didn't do anything. We were finally able to get a little bit of a climb going and after about 20 seconds (but seemed like 20 minutes) of rough running, it went back to normal. Other than reading back clearances to the tower, I didn't say anything until we were back on the ground safely. Turned out one of the new spark plugs was faulty (or so I was told). My butt cheeks were sore for a few days after that because I was clenching them so tight the rest of the way around the pattern.
 
I did a 50 foot pattern over tree tops one hot, heavily loaded summerday in a POS cherokee 140 that had a plug foul (reallly foul) in the 2 minutes from runup to TO. Scared the crap out of me, I was a PPL and was too stupid to realize that I wasn't getting enough RPM and abort the takeoff.

Had a cessna 150 electrical system fry on me at night one, the smell stung my nose. I luckily had a handheld comm to turn on the lights.
 
I had a busted cylander and lost 500 RPM. Quick return to the field. That was close enough for an engine failure for me.
 
Unfortunatly "Engine failure" is kind of vague. Is this defined as an engine failure where an emergency landing had to be made? Or if your engine failed but you had a successful restart, does that count?
 
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