I remember an occasion in training when low level around salisbury plain, solo, and was about to pop up to do an oblique terrain crossing to starboard over a ridge, pulled up and rolled right, heard a load bang and started yawing a shed load to the left, poohed my pants, rolled wings level expecting a tail rotor related failure and discovered that the starboard yaw pedal had snapped off almost level with the deck! Found that a boot tread onto the stub of the pedal did the trick.What to be learned from this training incident? - wear brown underpants!!
Deal with scares by knowing your stuff - inside out, and that starts with minute detail of your flying machine, avoided brown pants many a time by understanding whats going on and with what.