over water you can fly at just clear as long as you stay 500
feet from people, boats and suchlike.



"Bucky" wrote in message
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| Gary Drescher wrote:
| apparently, flying over the river isn't construed as
flying over a congested
| area.
|
| Is there an FAA definition or example of what exactly is a
"congested
| area"? I had also heard of the 1000/2000 rule, so I was
pretty
| surprised to learn that the East River could be flown at
under 1100
| feet.
|
| It seems that general aviationists are against against any
kind of
| restriction, and even Bloomberg used the analogy that just
because we
| have car accidents doesn't mean we shut down all the
streets. But if
| you have a fatal car accident at an uncontrolled
intersection, it would
| be pretty reasonable to make the intersection safer, maybe
by adding a
| stop sign or signal lights. The East River corridor is
pretty crazy, a
| narrow strip between 3 major airports. It doesn't seem
like a bad idea
| to shut it down.
|