Fear And Loathing On The Aviation Trail

I am going to be contrary. Among ourselves at least I eat up all the comments and speculations about what went wrong and sift through them for the sensible ones to add to my mental store of THINGS NOT TO DO.
Re being scared: I had an engine fail and ended up in a field. A reporter asked me if I was scared or felt like a hero. I said no to both of those, I was too busy using my training to solve the problem. In my mind scared was for later, like what if the engine quit at night over mountains instead of daylight over a farm are things you think about once the plane is parked. Being a hero would imply I had a parachute but selflessly stayed in the airplane to save my passengers. I did not, my own butt was on line too! I guess you mentally say to yourself “You have done this 100 times, now just do it again for real like you know how to do”.