not RV related but if anyone gets a chance to see Sean Tucker speak at Osh, he usually shows a cockpit video of him taking a friend of his daughter up for a ride in his open-cockpit bipe. Perfect example of how to handle a major engine problem.
As the video starts to roll he explains that the girl was apprehensive about flying but wanted to go up for a ride as long as he didn't do anything to scare her. She's in the front seat right in front of the camera.
The terrain below is quite hilly. He's about 4000 agl. He tells her he's going to do a gentle maneuver and that there's nothing to be afraid of. All of a sudden there's a loud bang, the plane lurches and everything goes silent. The propeller "leaves the airplane". You can see it fly off behind them. (It was a new custom Hartzell)
He casually
says over the intercom that they just lost the propeller but everything's ok. The girl's eyes go wide open.
Tucker handles it as if it happens every day. He talked to the girl all the way down to a perfect dead stick landing at the airport he happened to be flying over.
He shows the video as an example of making the best of a bad/dumb situation.