I see you fly in AK...at least I'm assuming that as bush flying takes a special breed. I think you did the right thing and made the right decision. Survival and coming out unscathed is first...saving the airplane is really secondary although it's what you normally want to do, but in an emergency that can't always happen. One thing I guess I've been pretty good at is handling weird things with airplanes. I've grabbed many airplanes at the field saving them with split seconds left. I just never panic no matter what happens. I get so absorbed in flying the airplane I can't. I have to fly the plane and just give it what it takes to do what I want it to. As you know from flying the full scales...the primary thing is fly the airplane first...everything is secondary. As for the redundancy, yes, I am all for it as I stated in another post. I don't classify choke servos as redundancy. They are just another thing to fail unless you have two of them, then you have a redundant choke setup. There comes a point where stuff just becomes dead weight. A failed choke servo in hover would definitely end in disaster...it would also cause a unwanted deadstick on a plane that was flying fine before the failure. The only controls that are needed to get the airplane down safely are one aileron, and one elevator...everything else is secondary. This was proven this past weekend as that is what happened to me. The redundancy worked, and saved the airplane. There was no choke servo in the plane and I can see no need for one. maybe two, but that would have to be one huge airplane before I could justify the added weight, and it would have to be one sorry flying plane like something that has nasty stalling tendencies at high angles of attack.