EFATO? best training for this event.....
Book a day's training at a gliding club with a WINCH launching system.
And ask for launch failure training.
This is the closest you can get to EFATO, and excellent practice.
In a winch launch, the glider pilot rotates carefully into the full climb, at no point being unhappy were the cable to break exactly then. A low cable break is rather approximate to an engine failure after takeoff...the only correct response is
1. LOWER THE NOSE
2. LAND STRAIGHT AHEAD
no brainer.
A high cable break,
1. LOWER THE NOSE.
2. DO NOT TURN UNTIL CORRECT AIRSPEED IS INDICATED ON THE ASI.
3. JOIN THE CIRCUIT, OR IF YOU CONTACT A THERMAL, SOAR AWAY!
but a medium height cable break...and this does depend on wind strength and direction....
1. LOWER THE NOSE! ! ! ! !
2. TURN AWAY FROM THE WIND DIRECTION (this must have been decided before takeoff) and you will find yourself nicely set up for a normal circuit and approach....possibly briefer than normal . This works fine for gliders, but power -- probably wouldn't work because your engine dead glide ratio is probably about 12 to one. So land ahead.
But in a glider, it's more like 30 to one, so time enough for a normal circuit.
All the same, the experience is valuable, and no glider pilot gets worried when on a check ride in a power plane the instructor cuts the power low down and asks what are you going to do now? easy!
1. LOWER THE NOSE
2. LAND AHEAD
if you are over 2,000 feet already, you may have enough energy at 12 to one to land back (consider a downwind landing if the wind is light) and any higher than that, you have time to monkey around with the sputtering donkey and do your radio distress calls....which wouldn't help in a real emergency anyway.
As to chosing a field, forget worrying about that. As I mentioned on the sticky, the field choses you; if you control the aircraft you will walk away...aircraft have landed on top of houses, hangars, trees, hedges. The plane now belongs to the insurance company, so let them worry about it.
You will not be injured if you have arrived under control!
Don't know about landing on roads...depends on the traffic....