Originally Posted by
Lead Balloon
There have been very, very few safe forced landing areas on or near the lake, for quite a few decades. Not a good place to try to ‘alight’, even for an amphibian:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/20...-fails/6380664
It takes a few decades for the lake to dry to ‘airstrip hardness’.
Remember Chen Au Peh! My god, was he lucky.