"Roger (K8RI)" wrote:
I think you will find you would have to pull up and stall in a rather
steep attitude to get the prop to stop in many planes. In a well
loosened engine on a 150 or 172 it might not stop until well into the
roll out.

On the first maintenance flight after a top overhaul (Varga, Lyc O-320),
pulled the throttle back all the way when entering the flare, and the
engine quit. The prop did not continue spinning, it stopped *instantly*.
It was a non event ... continued the flare and made as nice a landing as
it would have been with the engine at idle. But the instantly-stopped
prop was noticed by the controller who immediately asked if we were
going to need assistance. We didn't ... we easily rolled to the next
exit, then restarted for taxi.