I'm interested to see the reaction to the very thought of flying a SE piston over water - shock, horror, don't do it.
A quick memory flick through the statistics of the past few years (and I'm only going on memory), and it would appear that the majority of deaths in Aust GA seem to have occurred in multi-engine.
So, why the
reaction to flying SE piston? I recognise that the weather on or around Flinders can be dodgy, and changeable, but the reaction on this thread seems to me to be perpetuating the myth that ME = fly anwhere any time but SE = death, all the time.
Yes, I agree that ME gives more options, but it's not 100% guaranteed - nothing is.
I would think that flying any aircraft Sth East out of Jandakot, West out of Bankstown, or North out of Melbourne (all - I think - over hills and heavy forest) would have been just as much tiger country as the Bass Strait.