houstondan wrote:

hypothetical situation: you're a blue sky vfr flyer and somehow you
wind up in the soup - after having gone 2 hours and 200 miles from your
take-off point , you wake up from a nice little nap and discover you're
inside the milk bottle.

gps(not waas) says nearest airport of any kind is 30 minutes away and
gas-totalizer says the fan stops in 10 minutes.

not mountainous but you ain't in kansas either todo...whatcha gunna
do??

Neither GPS or altimeter since this would be one of the least concerns
in saving your bacon.

You already don't know your "exact" AGL from your landing point, so
other then an approximation from your GPS, first order of priority is
to keep the shiny side up.

Attitude indicator (Aviate or fly the plane)
Some people may say best glide speed, but this really depends on what
you think you will come into after breaking out. If the best glide
speed takes you into mountains, then that may not the best thing to do.
(navigate)
If able, declare emergency 121.5 or ATC if already in contact
(communicate)

Any prayer you can come up with for a good outcome since more then
likely spatial disorientation will be a major player since you said you
were VFR only.

After breaking out of the clouds (assuming low ceilings), emergency
checklist, including opening cabin door before landing.

If high ceilings, you have a little more time to select your emergency
landing site, set up for landing, slowest speed possible, emergency
check list for landing.

Your scenario really has too many variables that were not defined to
really nail down procedures since winds / clouds and human physiology
really comes into play so the above are generalizations that I would do
if I was in the scenario described.

Allen