Keep it simple. Keep it safe.
1. Control the A/C, including your flightpath;
2. Ensure performance (full power, identify and shut down the failed engine, reduce drag etc);
3. Plan of action? Think about what you're gonna (try) to do;
4. Tell somebody about it (ATC);
5. Talk to your PAX;
6. Go to your checklist and square things away that you might have missed (securing the engine, and invoking any special operating procedures that may be pertinent to that particular type you are flying).
Aviate, Navigate, Communicate has it's place when you're in the ab-initio stage of training, but in my opinion it's simply a rhyming catchphrase that instructors tend to throw at their students.
Commonsense needs to prevail. Keep it simple:
1. Control.
2. Performance.
3. Everything else.....
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Dyslexics of the world untie!
JARSE! A member of D.N.A. (National Dyslexics Association)
[This message has been edited by Hugh Jarse (edited 28 June 2001).]