"C J Campbell" wrote in message
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"Roy Smith" wrote in message
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Living near the coast (and a flat coastline too), I've often figured
in such a situation I'd dead-reckon out over the ocean, do a blind
letdown as low as I dared (500 MSL?) and hope I broke out. Then
scud-run back to land and hope I could find a coastal airport by
pilotage before I got run over by a jet. Or maybe land on the beach.

Well, as long as the coast is flat, it is day, and the weather does not
get
worse at the coastline, maybe. So you land on the beach, which sounds best
to me, but suppose you are forced to land in someplace not so suitable and
you damage the plane and perhaps yourself? Now you are a long way off
course
and nobody has any idea where to look for you.



Now the only question is, do you have a beautiful woman with you, or not?