"Why on earth anyone would want to be swinging an aircraft round the sky at 1700ft"
Try coming out of an airport in mountainous terrain in Montana at night and lose an engine. You don't fly the engine out procedure and rely on ATC and you and your pax are dead. Left to be scraped off the side of a cliff.
I'm with fireflybob on this. Your response scares me. You should be briefing the special dept procedure in addition to the all engine one for every leg. You must have all the NAVAIDs ready to support flying it as well in case of a worst case scenario.