How about set up a glide first, change tanks pump on carb heat hot, then assess which fields within range are suitable? Wouldn't it be nice if they could all spend a day or two at a gliding club because I never have this problem with people who have done some gliding.
I also instruct on gliders. The easy conversion is glider to microlight. Glider to light aircraft is nearly as quick. Hardest is the light aircraft pilot with 500 hours plus to microlight. Just done my renewal seminar for french microlight instructor and that seemed to be the consensus.....
It would be nice if the SEP pilot could do a glide approach to a 700m runway without running off the end......either end....or do a circuit in gliding range of said runway.....or get the nose down on an EFATO BEFORE they start faffing around with the radio...Or even instead of......or do a 45 degree banked turn without gaining or losing 500 feet in still air......or spend more time looking outside than at the instruments.
Rant over