Pakehaboy
Appreciate your last post & thanks for your comments.
For me, it's quite some time since sitting at the sharp end & much in the aviation world has progressed since then. However basic airmanship I'm fairly sure will still prevail, as it must of course, for all our sakes.
The question of when & when not to evacuate, I suppose will still be discussed long after I'm garden compost & it will always be, dammed if you do & dammed if you don't, I would think. I was lucky enough never to be met by a really serious event during my time in the air, double air system failure on the 1-11 was interesting, but thankfully fairly strait forward to deal with, we descended fairly quickly I recall.
Cheers.