Think of that part of the airspace as a dead end canyon. The canyon is made
up by the class B airspace
in the form of a rectangular cut out. In the past you could fly up into the
cut out but when you get to the dead end you had to do something. Either
make the very tight U turn staying in the tight canyon or if you wanted to
keep going you needed to contact ATC for clearance into LaGuardia airspace
all this needed to be done in a very short period of time when you are
already occupied with many other tasks like watching for heavy traffic and
staying inside the exclusion. In 25 years of flying in this airspace I have
never once had the need nor felt desire to go up the East river exclusion
without already being in contact with ATC.
The reason it is there is to let the helicopters and seaplanes operate in
this small cut out without the need to contact ATC unless they wanted to. I
hope this helps get a picture of this..


"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message
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"me" wrote in message ...

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.


I'm not in the NY area, I'm not familiar with the corridor. What is the
purpose of the new requirement to communicate with ATC when operating in
that part of the Class B exclusion?