Looking for practice area outside HPN

On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 22:51:15 GMT, Gary L. Drescher wrote:
"journeyman" wrote in message
ru.com...

I've lately come to the conclusion that the airspace around NYC is
just too (expletive) busy. Last night, I wound up tucked inside
the triangle formed by Bridgeporrt, Danbury, and Waterbury-Oxford,
carefully watching the GPS to make sure I didn't drift into anyone's
class D while practicing maneuvers.

Is that a legal place to practice maneuvers? It's crisscrossed by airways.
According to FAR 91.303, you can't be within 4 nm of an airway centerline
when you intentionally establish an attitude "not necessary for normal
flight".

Ack. All the more reason I need a better place to practice maneuvers.
Guess I'd better file another NASA report.

Seriously, I was using the other definition: banking over 60 degrees
or pitching +/- 30 degrees, which I now realize is in error. Looking
at the text of 91.303, there was nothing abrupt about the maneuvers, so
I hope I'm off the hook in case anyone wants to make an issue of it.

The chief flight instructor at The Place I Rent From steered me in the
direction of Norwalk. That isn't any better.

Someone else suggested Croton Point, which is also too close to airways.

For that matter, The Place I'm Doing Glider Training is at Randall
airport and that's practically underneath an intersection. Wurtsboro
isn't any better either.

I really hope no-one's too keen on enforcing this rule.

Maybe just north of Mahopac?


Morris (adding "filed ASRS report" to my shutdown checklist)