I looked at the footage from the LGA Passur site... same thing.

I know nobody should be speculating at this point, so I'll just say
that compared to the Hudson river corridor, the East River corridor is
quite a bit tighter in terms of the area you have to work in when
making the turn at the 59th St. Bridge. Even at maneuvering speed, you
want to make the turn as tight as possible, both to avoid straying into
LGA's airspace, and also to (obviously) avoid hitting anything in
Manhattan.

--
Guy

pgbnh wrote:
Wow !! 400 feet up to 500 feet then to 400 feet, then 300, then radar return
goes away. Could not have been more than 5 minutes into the flight. If the
earlier FT's were correct, even 500 feet should not have put him in IMC
"Peter R." wrote in message
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Partial radar track of the first few minutes of Lidle's Cirrus departing
Teterboro on Passur:

http://www4.passur.com/ewr.html

Set the clock there for October 11th, 14:30 pm, then click on the first
aircraft that departs Teterboro.

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Peter