Some examples of note in the last few posts .. the prosecution rests.
Park it somewhere non-limiting and have a coffee.
I'm with you, good sir .. heroics are fine if all motors run down and one's options become severely limited. For other cases, the sit on hands strategy appears to be a sound IA.
I've just finished a long term contract managing a highly modded fleet of whiz bang electronic birds .. even the elec DERs had a deuce of a time figuring what did what .. a couple of problems took many weeks - with OEM input - to resolve ... and folks want the skipper to figure it out in a flash ? Madness unless you are on an ancient bird of low complexity.