"G.R. Patterson III" wrote in message
Seems to me that he regards any risk of going down in that water without
PFDs as being unacceptable. He's PIC, he's completely responsible for
deciding what's an acceptable risk.

I mis-spoke. I was really asking why we would not simply avoid flying out
of gliding distance of a shoreline. Many other posters in this thread seem
to think this option is so easily done that I would not hesitate choosing a
waterless route.

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Jim Fisher