In rec.aviation.piloting, "Jim Macklin" wrote in message
news:MdjVf.755$t22.325@dukeread08...
Personally, I get nervous over Lake Michigan or a few miles
off shore in a King Air.

Well, Lake Michigan gets *cold*... Although I have crossed it with just a
life vest, I would not have wanted to have had to experience the water
temperature... I suspect that I would have died from hypothermia long before
anyone would have rescued me... Let's just say that I'm quite a bit less
concerned about thermal protection during the summer when I'm flying over
the Gulf of Mexico...