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Old November 22nd 05, 06:18 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
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Default Flying into NYC for Thanksgiving Day Parade

George Patterson wrote:

IMO, the easiest thing for you to do is to call up Newark and go through
the class-B. If the winds allow, they'll probably bring you right up the
river and then swing you around to land from the north.


Another approach is to contact EWR tower while approaching the class B at
1000 over the Garden State Parkway. Request the "GSP transition north".
Watch out for traffic helicopters.

I first learned that trick on my club checkride. The idea is to follow the
highway. So I followed the highway. The CFI giving me the checkride said
"you don't need to follow every bend in the road." I replied with
something like "no, I don't *need* to".

Admittedly, this is easier for a local (we know the GSP {8^).

If you're flying into TEB, then - depending upon the wind - you might get a
pretty direct route through the class B just as a matter of course.
There's an ILS (6, I think) onto which you could be vectored.

- Andrew