On Jun 30, 4:56*am, brian whatcott wrote:

I think you do well to be scared.
A flight over water means that the worst moment is half way.
It is then that given the option, you should be high enough
to glide ashore. * *A flight required to stay low for a
57 mile trip had better have at least a lifejacket and an
ELT or some such.

I don't know about scared but I certainly know about being prepared
when over water.
Then the only 'where I was' was the Flight Plan and radio and
floatation gear an inflatable life vest.
Accompanied by automatic rough as I got further from land.
Briefing friends/pax before any cross Cook Strait flight always
brought it home to me the picture the media has of anything smaller
than a B747 being a 'small' and therefore inherently dangerous
machine to 'brave the elements in'