I operate in the NY, Long Island area and the new East river rules do not
bother me a bit and I think they deal with a difficult situation very well.

For those of you not in the NY area let me tell you.. This issue is giant
and being blown way out of control, all against small planes and pilots..
Newsday one of the local newspapers for this area had about 10 plus pages of
coverage on Friday and almost as much on Thursday.

This change to the airspace is nothing more than adding the requirement to
communicate with ATC when operating in this part of the class B exclusion.
It looks like it exempts most operations in the exclusion that really need
to be there. Sightseeing flight don't need to be there, the Hudson river
route give you plenty to see.

Please let's stick together and take this small requirement as one of the
results of this unfortunate accident.

If this quiets all the calls by media and politicians to completely ban
small planes then this is a small price to pay.

Thank you...