Once again, Foxmoth, TOO MUCH HEAD DOWN TIME! Good grief, how hard is it to do a 180 if you have the vaguest idea of the compass heading you had been following? Certainly a maneuver that can be done without compromising the lookout. Step two once you have turned around, ask for help on the radio! If there is another reasonable being in the aircraft, capable of looking out and holding it right side up, you might have time for drawings and calculations.
Of course, there is always the big red handle! How many of you Pprunes read about the fancy Cirrus with all the bells, whistles, navaids, gadgets, buttons etc which running into a few clouds not far from Shenington Gliding Club last year, spent a few minutes programming into his computer a 180 turn to go back to Turweston....when he looked up again, the canopy view was entirely GREEN....as the Cirrus was seeking the quickest way to return to earth. He panicked and pulled the jolly red handle, which deployed the Cirrus parachute and the whole chuting match landed in a tree near Horton, near Wroxham, near Banbury. Walked away, but how many times will the insurance companies wear it, I wonder?