SeeAndAvoid wrote:

I'll be flying out of White Plains, NY (HPN) to Allentown, PA (ABE) in early
June and would like to fly down the Hudson River to the Statue of Liberty
then west. It looks like the Class B and TEB's Class D would allow this at
1000' MSL without any clearance or approval, am I right in this assumption?

That's correct.

Anyone done in recently, especially after 9/11?

I ran the corridor about a month ago.

The tops of those bridges
look mighty tall, like less than 500' clearance flying below the floor of
the Class B.

Stay in the middle of the river at 1,000' ASL over the bridges and announce on
the common traffic frequency. Stay to the right side of the river everywhere
except the bridges.

Is this a busy and heavily traveled corridor? It'll be a Saturday.

Maybe. It was not busy (except for the choppers down low) the last time I ran
it, and it has been less busy in the last few years than before 9/11, but it can
still have some traffic on a weekend.

You should pick up a NY terminal chart. It has a variety of landmarks not on the
sectional. It also has the common traffic frequencies. VFR traffic usually
announces at the bridges, the alpine tower, the Intrepid (an aircraft carrier
moored in lower Manhattan, the Battery, "the Lady" (Statue of Liberty), and
sometimes the two tunnels (which can be seen due to their ventilation system
buildings). The sightseeing choppers will usually not announce location but will
instead carry on their own private conversations. They tend to stay at or below
500'.

Turn *all* your lights on and keep an eye out for traffic coming into the corridor
from the New England area about half a mile above where the Harlem river enters
the Hudson.

George Patterson
Battle, n; A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would
not yield to the tongue.