Hudson River Corridor
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Airdale
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Thanks for the compliments on the photos. I'd like to make the same run in something where I can shoot the photos without a window in the way. I have a Nikon D50 and the lens is a Nikon 80-200 f/2.8 lens. All together about $2k worth of camera equipment, but shooting through the window kills it! Sure was a fun flight, can't wait to take my parents for ride up there in the summer. Photography is a hobby of mine that I'm trying to get good enough at to make some money. Gotta have some other source of income being a pilot ya know.
triple7
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I did it once after departing farmingdale heading south towards ACY. I just said i was only gonna be there once and wanted to see the city. so they cleared me to go direct throgs nexk bridge, direct lga tower, direct central park , interecept the river report the stat of lib in site. I think thats the east river transition and you might want to request that by name when coming from the north. nothing cooler than coming over lga at 1500 ft then buzzing manhatten at that alt. ny tracon is awesome and very helpful. i came back up on departute and they had me back on my ifr clearance and on my way once passing over the verizano bridge.
NYer914
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Those are outstanding pics....and what a way to hook someone in on a discovery flight. I have done the Hudson River Tour a few times out of Farmingdale as well, they brought us along coney island at or below 500 to the Verazzano and up New York Harbor. Look out for Helicopter traffic though....there is a Hudson River CTAF frequency to use that is printed on the TAC chart if I am not mistaken...
Airdale
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n57flyguy said:
I wish. I'm finishing up my commercial tomorrow (checkride) and CFI school next week. So this was my last training flight up here with the TTN guys, so we made it fun since my manuevers were fine.
As far as clearance, I believe we just contact NY approach control and requested to fly the corridor. They approved, kept us aware of traffic, gave us alt. assignments (no lower than 1,000 but they sent us up to two just past the lady). I think we had like 6 hand-offs total while flying the corridor, 3 up and 3 down. Lots of helicopters, so we were doing more watching for traffic than sight seeing. It was fun, but you have pratically zero options to put the plane down in an emergency at that altitude, so make sure that engine is purring like a kitten!
wheelsup
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jjm said:
Fly below 1100' (or 1000', can't remember) coming south down the river and you can do it without talking to anyone (ATC wise). Your main points of interest are the Tapanzee bridge, the alpine towers, the george washington bridge, and then the verizano bridge. The only catch is if you go up the east river, you have to get a class Bravo clearance if you go past the UN building. Also, I think the Class B shelf up the east river started at 500' (for LGA's airspace), and the area from the statue of liberty west was 500' as well (for EWR's airspace).
Get a NYC Terminal chart and you can see the altitudes on it. There is a CTAF freq printed on there. If you're not too familiar with the locations of things (colgate tower, the a/c carrier, etc.) to make calls, then you can at least monitor it, or request a clearance from NY approach for a class b transition. I found it was easier to go VFR though, I only talked to them if I wanted to go up the east river on disco flights.
Oh, and one other tidpit of advice. Don't mistake the George Washington bridge for the Tapanzee bridge. I did that once at night when I was new. One of two times I busted a Class B. Nobody called me on it though - I got lucky
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Van_Hoolio
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Just last week I was researching the cooridor.
You can bring up the NYC Terminal Area Chart at http://skyvector.com/ and a good website I was reading was http://www.germaise.com/interests/aviation_flyinghudson1.htm .
Sooner or later I hope to get up there and do it. I flew commercial on Friday and connected at La Guardia. Manhattan looked awesome. I'm definately going to do this. It would be about 3.5 - 4 hours flying time there and back from where I am.
I understand you can go up and down the Hudson below the class Bravo but would be interested to see how easy it would be to fly up the East River and across Central Park through the Bravo. That'd be awesome.
Mike
You can bring up the NYC Terminal Area Chart at http://skyvector.com/ and a good website I was reading was http://www.germaise.com/interests/aviation_flyinghudson1.htm .
Sooner or later I hope to get up there and do it. I flew commercial on Friday and connected at La Guardia. Manhattan looked awesome. I'm definately going to do this. It would be about 3.5 - 4 hours flying time there and back from where I am.
I understand you can go up and down the Hudson below the class Bravo but would be interested to see how easy it would be to fly up the East River and across Central Park through the Bravo. That'd be awesome.
Mike
wheelsup
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Van_Hoolio said:
It depended on what R/W's LGA was using. If they were departing to the west, it's a no go. That was the only time I was denied.
Looking at the TAC, it looks like 126.05 was the freq I made the request on. It doesn't ring a bell, but it was >2 years ago that I was up there. I would call them up 1-2 miles south of Governor's Island with the request "I'd like to go up the east river and over central park to the hudson @ 1500'". They'd either say, "Cessna XXX cleared into Class B, climb and maintain 1,500" or "Remain clear of Class B". Pretty easy.
~wheelsup
Van_Hoolio
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Thanks. I'll look into that when I know I'll be able to do it.wheelsup said:
Mike
