ORIGINAL: RTK
You use a choke to start an engine don't you???? It fires then dies, right....
You are accomplishing the same thing when killing an engine at idle with a choke. It dies so quickly that there is no way of causing any problems.
ORIGINAL: BillS
Shutting an engine down with the choke seems similar to using a servo to drop a rag into the prop. Sort of jury-rigged
Not even close
Not exactly elegant either.
Bill