Thanks for the reminder. It is indeed important to practice the drills. I have a problem in that I have no way of practicing the initial decision making - has anyone got any advice on that?
To expand a little, I have had one emergency when all of my focus was on keeping the aircraft flying until I could sort out the problem and deal with it. At no time did I contemplate putting the aircraft down on the ground. In training, someone says 'engine failure, forced landing' and you go from there. As I see it happening in real life, the first thing that you have to do before putting emergency landing training into practice is to decide that you are going to put this very nice aircraft onto the ground away from an airfield. How do you make that decision correctly?