you know that emergency over the local airstrip scenario.
it
is bollocks.
I had one pulled on me once and refused to use the strip as intended.
if the glide approach was stuffed up or the wind was different from what was expected the bushland either end of the strip meant that there was no safe undershoot area and no safe overshoot area.
you had to nail the entire approach perfectly or you were toast.
I elected for a big farmers flat paddock.
while we were gliding to the paddock I was asked what I was doing.
absolutely nothing was the reply.
wtf you are in an emergency!!!
all decisions made in the first minute of an emergency are usually wrong so I am waiting for the second minute was the reply.
never panic in an emergency even if the instructor wants you to.
