Excellent points (and by the way, I didn't mean that the willy waving was on this thread); particularly agree about decision making.
Also wasn't suggesting that one does not have an escape route, merely that they come in various levels of quality - as an extreme example, I'd rather suffer engine failure 5000ft overhead a nicely lit airfield in the dark (even if it's too short to fly out of), than in broad daylight overwater.
With that, I shall stop digressing/dragging it off topic too
