Agreed; the avoidance of the situation by a good and timely decision is the best way and must be drummed in from the start of training.
As an aside, reminds me of an amazing first-person crash comic story I read once about a group of Aussie spitfires that were launching from Daru to Vanimo or something like that, where the bloke was in formation in cloud, lost the leader and then went through some absolutely wild times trying to control the machine (in cloud, amongst the hills, hardly any instrument time and not much instrumentation either), almost unbelievably surviving to tell the tale.
Now I'm really hijacking the thread!