Shy,
I can recall a very similar down the mountain ride...except it was for real....and I was both the senior guy and at the controls.....and pretty near out of usable ideas.
The running account would sound boring out of context....but it was a very near thing but turned out okay at the bottom....barely.
I would much rather have gained the benefit of that experience by means of some idle chitchat over Tea in the Pilot's Ready Room as compared to the way I did.
That was another time I managed to droop the Rotor RPM on a Chinook to the point the Generators dropped off line.