John
fully agree with you. This stuff is all more or less bloody theory when it comes to safe your - as a pilot - and your pax´s skin. Therefore I fullhearted underwrite what was stated here by bubbers44 and others. Nothing substitute situational awareness and a good load of common horse sense. I have, as a TWR controller once watched the finally successful attempt of a light twin pilot that had a full load of pax on board and lost one engine right after take off, by flying through a valley lower than the hills. Though we lost visual contact temporarily we still had radio contact and thus could render assisstance as much as was possible.
Jo