How come?

Rosspilot ) wrote:

One of the photos from that shoot we did:

http://www.skyviewpictures.com/cgibi...?product=col-g
oldpeak&exact_match=yes

is among my biggest sellers. It was a memorable flight . . .

How did you coordinate this with ATC? Was it simply a matter of being
cleared into the class B airspace for aerial photography? Am I correct in
assuming that this would not be allowed anymore?

BTW, recalling our exchange in this group about the Hudson River corridor,
I flew down to the corridor yesterday (Sunday) specifically to fly up the
East River side.

Wow, does one have to make a steep turn south of Roosevelt Island to be
able to turn around! Much more narrow than the Hudson River side.

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Peter R. wrote:
How did you coordinate this with ATC? Was it simply a matter of being
cleared into the class B airspace for aerial photography? Am I correct in
assuming that this would not be allowed anymore?

yeah, back in the day all it was just asking LGA tower to do aerial
photography low over the city and that was it, we did some pretty close
circling around that building as you can tell by the pic, and then went to
WTC and did same. It used to be similar in DC, you could ask the departure
from DCA to do an aerial tour and they just vectored you around the
prohibited areas, I did some close shots of National Cathedral and
Georgetown back then, as well as a face-on shot of the Pentagon just couple
of weeks before 9/11. I miss those days:

http://www.maxho.com/BigTrip/pages/Pentagon.htm
http://www.maxho.com/dca/pages/NationalCathedral.htm
http://www.maxho.com/wtc

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Peter R. wrote:


How did you coordinate this with ATC? Was it simply a matter of being
cleared into the class B airspace for aerial photography?

Sure. Or don't mention the photography bit.

The pictures I have are nothing like the quality of Lee's pictures, but I
did this run a couple of months ago:

http://gideon.org/andrew/PhotoAlbum/Flying/Hudson/3/

Am I correct in
assuming that this would not be allowed anymore?

Nope.

BTW, recalling our exchange in this group about the Hudson River corridor,
I flew down to the corridor yesterday (Sunday) specifically to fly up the
East River side.

Wow, does one have to make a steep turn south of Roosevelt Island to be
able to turn around! Much more narrow than the Hudson River side.

With a clearance, you can make your life easier. As you'll read on the
above cited page, Approach gave me a nice trip down the east river with no
problem at all. I even had my own controller grin.

A page with a fair bit of information on overflying NYC is:

http://www.carneyaviation.com/nyctour/nyctour.htm

- Andrew