Can I practice forced landings with a passenger onboard?

In this clip, I answer a viewer's question regarding the legality of practicing emergency forced landings with a passenger.
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[@Dfendr96]

Okay, so let the passenger know what your practicing... got cha...lol 😆

[@anthonyb4913]

Totally unrelated but what is this song playing at the end?

[@davidclark8774]

Except maybe my daughter, not sure I would want to scare them

[@gorgly123]

Practice at an airport.

[@alasdaircrawford2695]

Yeah, but that doesn’t get you practicing reading WWSS (Wind, Wires, Surface, slope) etc. Did I mention wires?

[@gorgly123]

@@alasdaircrawford2695 The best way is with an instructor so you don't know when it is going to happen. Someone practicing them alone knows when he is going to pull the throttle. I don't think that provides the "surprise" effect. Especially a student pilot practicing them would be risky. Getting within 500 feet of a structure when doing the practice emergency landing would put you in violation of the regulations. Doing them over or near an airport would be the normal course of "landing" which allows that. I used to practice pulling the power 3000 feet AGL over an uncontrolled airport. Doing the spiral down and getting it on the runway is good practice and less risky than doing that in the middle of nowhere. You can alway mentally be cognizant of wind, wires, etc. while flying along just in case the engine quits. Good safe practice.

[@glennwatson]

@@gorgly123 When I've practiced them here in Australia we always will go around at 500 feet AGL even with the instructor, although we would usually finish the lesson by going onto the base airport full idle. We teach them a little different here though, we tend to do a circuit over our assigned field rather than spiral in by setting certain key points. One being 1 field upwind of your field (high key), a landmark displaced from your threshold, and then will use height as a gauge of when we should head towards those different locations. I believe the high/low key method is the same used by the US military.