Matt- I respect your position to disagree without beginning a brand war.

If you have any solid data that supports the idea that a short delay time in shutting down poses a significant hazard, I'd like to hear it. (Other than "It's just common sense"- Since the time it takes from commanding a shutdown to "fire out" will in many cases be largely determined by the reaction time of the pilot involved, and to some extent wether or not he even has the presence of mind to recognise the developping situation, splitting hairs over a 0.5 second ECU delay based on gut feelings of "how things should be" is not time well spent, IMHO.)

I fully recongnise the fact that the scenario can and does exist that a short ECU delay in shutting down could cause a running turbine to impact the ground. But you must also recognise that by the same logic, in a similar scenario, any delay in shutting down due to loss of radio contact, even 0.1 seconds, is equally dangerous. Before anyone gets all up in arms and accuses me of trying to knock the most popular system in North America, I'm not. What I'm trying to point out is that there is no right answer for even most situations, let alone every situation. (The fact that there are folks who openly state that they will only set their throttle failsafe to IDLE, defeating any manufaturers safeguard, is proof enough of this point.)

Ultimately, I like to think of myself as a responsible turbine flyer. If there is a compelling reason, supported by fact, to influence a change to SimJet's or anyone else's safety system, I'm all ears to it.