You can always get the ASOS on the ground by phone or even call the HPN
tower to get the ATIS but I'm sure you'll have enough time if you fly
directly from FRG to HPN unless of course you file, and then you'll
probably get routed via Brigeport or Madison...

WX looks nice for tomorrow anyway.

On Wed, 6 Apr 2005 14:00:58 -0500, Journeyman
wrote:


Planning a flight tomorrow to BOS-FRG (Farmingdale, on Long Island).
My home airport is HPN (White Plains), about 15 minutes North. After
I drop off my passenger, what's the best way to get back into White
Plains?

FRG and HPN have different NY Approach frequencies, and HPN is a
pseudo class C. By the time you clear FRG class D, call the FRG
approach controller, it doesn't leave much time for a handoff to
the White Plains approach controller, much less getting the HPN
ATIS.

The one time I went into FRG, I simply left their airspace and headed
for Norwalk, making initial contact with "Westchester Approach" when I
got there (this is not entirely dissimilar to Bob Gardner's instrument
student who got delay vectors transitioning from BFI to RNT).

Is there a more direct way?


Morris