Your reference cards, operating procedures or whatever you use should dictate the urgency to land.
As for secondary indications, you could get any of the three or multiples of them. Certainly the minimum would be to monitor T's & P's and if there is a rise in Temp or loss of pressure, consider the options of putting the a/c down before you're forced into the situation.
What are the sea temperatures at the time? what are your survival chances if you make a ditching. Can you always rely on a chip warning to be just a little bit of fuzz? Its a judgement call. Reducing height to a suitable height to be able to react and get the a/c safely down (not too low to give you no time to react), not to high to prolong the descent.
Thats where you earn your captaincy!
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