SJM
New Member
Here is a summary of events that took place. I planned a cross country that would take me straight through the heart of New York's class B. I was unsure how the controllers would respond to my attempt to fly a 152 only miles from EWR, JFK, and LGA, so I called them on a land line before taking off, and they gave me a frequency on which to contact New York Appch, and they would advise me on altitude, etc. Easy.
So I climb out of my base airport, contact approach and the controller advises me to level out at XXXX feet, and gives me another frequency to contact. I switch over, and make my transmission several times to no avail. I then switch back to the previous freq, and double check with him that I got the correct freq. He confirms. I switch over again, but again, I get no response. Back to the original freq. Now they're not answering either. I don't hear any transmissions at all. At this point I am over LDJ and Manhattan is coming up on the left in front of me. Mid-size jets are maneuvering right under me.
Now I'm uncomfortable, flipping throuhg the AFD and calling up any freq for New York app/dep. I hear some one-sided transmissions, but no one responds to my calls. At this point I make a quick 180 and retrace my steps through B airspace staying at XXXX feet. I contact McGuire approach and they hear me fine, so I shoot down to south Jersey to complete the cross country. The rest of my flight was just like any other flight, I was able to communicate with everyone without any issues.
I'm not sure what exactly went wrong here but it was pretty frustrating. I only had this happen once before when the tower at a class D airport wasn't responding and I decided not to land there. Have any of you been in a similar situation? What would you have done? Would it have been wrong to continue through B in the scenario above? (I was cleared into B, given a squawk code, and they knew my destination)
visual aid : http://skyvector.com/#44-15-3-2444-3129
So I climb out of my base airport, contact approach and the controller advises me to level out at XXXX feet, and gives me another frequency to contact. I switch over, and make my transmission several times to no avail. I then switch back to the previous freq, and double check with him that I got the correct freq. He confirms. I switch over again, but again, I get no response. Back to the original freq. Now they're not answering either. I don't hear any transmissions at all. At this point I am over LDJ and Manhattan is coming up on the left in front of me. Mid-size jets are maneuvering right under me.
Now I'm uncomfortable, flipping throuhg the AFD and calling up any freq for New York app/dep. I hear some one-sided transmissions, but no one responds to my calls. At this point I make a quick 180 and retrace my steps through B airspace staying at XXXX feet. I contact McGuire approach and they hear me fine, so I shoot down to south Jersey to complete the cross country. The rest of my flight was just like any other flight, I was able to communicate with everyone without any issues.
I'm not sure what exactly went wrong here but it was pretty frustrating. I only had this happen once before when the tower at a class D airport wasn't responding and I decided not to land there. Have any of you been in a similar situation? What would you have done? Would it have been wrong to continue through B in the scenario above? (I was cleared into B, given a squawk code, and they knew my destination)
visual aid : http://skyvector.com/#44-15-3-2444-3129