I regard myself as too inexperienced to answer your question but the following tale may have some relevance, I'd be interested to hear what others think.
I had a rather interesting experience during my training for the night rating. During the climb out from a touch and go (pitch dark, on instruments) the instructor announced a circuit emergency where the control wheel had fallen off (not a very likely one
), he asked me to continue to fly the circuit using just trim and rudder.
So off we went, continued climb to circuit height, turn onto downwind using secondary effects, complete downwind checks, turn base and then final. Never done that before and it was interesting to see just how much control you can have with just the trim tab and rudder.
Didn't manage to complete the full circuit tho, I chickened out on the turn onto final as I was beginning to oscillate in pitch rather more than I cared for
