Swager,

You would be surprised just how much more focused you become once your engine goes dead unexpectedly. You will also notice that allot of top pilots actually land dead stick and it some cases it's because of the prop pitch. A 10 pitch or bigger prop needs a very slow idle to really stop pulling a plane and in some cases you cannot get the idle low enough.

Case in point, I was flying a students LT-40 last week, during my preflight I failed to ask/check the pitch of the prop. I had a heck of a time landing it. Come to find out he had a 11X7 on a 46FX. I had to deadstick 2 landing until I realized what was going on. DOH