yes perfect day for it..I did this flight in my warrior for the first time on super bowl sunday morning ..up to Poughkeepsie for some lunch..flew the hudson the whole way there and back and got a bunch of great pics....also got to see the Control tower at dutchess county....im gonna put some...
nice write up....closest i get to ewr tower is when im taking a commercial fligh tout of there or i saw something on the hstory channel or discovery or one of those channles about ATC and they featured newark tower...i think someone posted up a link to that show on youtube aorund here..
BTW...
I know they chose long flights for the large amounts of fuel...but they never said anything about them purchasing their tickets last minute...
i thought about this from the day it happened....i was surprised that for this long this thought hadnt crossed people's minds... just seems a little...
I dont rememeber them saying that they bought their plane tickets the day before...i assumed they had them reserved already....
The whole week was beutiful weather..they just got lucky IMO..
I think that it could have possibly been alot worse then it was if the weather wasnt clear.. They...
i havent been there in a while...wuts going on there??
I flew past a few days ago....nothing seemed out of place from 8000 ft...but then again..i havent landed there in over a year...
man you guys are lucky.... wish i could just ride in one..
there isnt an FBO for miles around here that rents anything even close to anything nice like that..i gotta stick with my trusty warrior...:D
i flew down to eagles nest airport in south jersey just to meet with someone...and to check out all the R/C flying that goes on there...this airport MAYBE gets 10 planes a month landing there.. and while i was on the ground a white SUV with the FAA logo on the side pulls up to the airport and...
Nice job man....beleive it or not..i fly through this airspace almost everyday and i havent heard the words "unable" or been dropped from FF in a very long time..over a year....
i was up today..it didnt seem as busy as usual..especially for a good VFR day like today..
flying out of my airport i...
i love Blairstown....i stop in to eat once a week...usually breakfast...
they have great pancakes with an airplane shape on them :)
its also fun to watch the glider operations
Thanks guys ..keep it coming...I am already getting excited about this
Henning thats how i see it...I will most likely find myself somewhere that i never knew existed
ok so lets hear some stories, the routes that you took, or weather you encountered ect ect..
I wanna get the full idea of...
just wondering if anyone has ever done a long VFR flight 800-1000nm in an aircraft like a Piper Warrior or something close (C-172 C-182 arrow ect ect.)
Reason i ask is becasue a freind and I have our own Warrior..I am just a Private pilot not IR and he is student pilot and since we have the...
i still love my warrior.....i honeslty wouldnt mind a matrix...but I dont know much about too many different airplanes....i just like the design of the Piper line...
Sorry but airplane insurance doesnt seem like that much,f you think about wut they are insuring..I pay as much for my cars as...
i just would never cancel IFR in NY airspace..even on a perfect weather day .its just too busy, and too much going on..just do what your told and there will be no problems...thats my philosophy around there...your not gonna help anything by changing to VFR 5 miles from the airport..they still...