"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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And before ANYONE gets the mistaken notion, no, I'm not advocating scud
running.

I've scud run from New Orleans to Houston before... Flying across the swamps
at a maximum of 500 ft and even had someone cross underneath me... At one
point, was flying a pretty good portion of it at 200 ft... Great view of the
swamps... It's all in what you get used to... Flying around the MSY
airspace, one flies that low over Lake Pontchartrain slightly offshore in
order to skirt the Class-B... Yeah, if you loose and engine, you're going to
go down, but I've been at 10,000 ft and didn't relish the potential for
losing an engine over that terrain either...