vfr corridors through class B airspace

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Do I read the aim right that the special flight rules airspace over
top of LAX is actually still classified as a VFR corridor?

And secondly, are there any other vfr corridors in the US?

Not that are Special Flight Rules. A lot of class B's that are formed from
overlaps of multiple primary airports have area that is just excluded (without
restriction) from the class B. An example is NY where there is a tunnel
down the Hudson (the chart does have some notations about traffic advisories)
and DC which has two tunnels (one between IAD and DCA, which unfortunately
is now eaten up by the stupid-assed no-fly zone and one between DCA and BWI
which is only partially eaten, but inside the ADIZ). Several others have sort of
notches cut out of their edges for non-Class B transition.

But I don't think these are true "vfr corridors". The aim 3.5.5.b
describes corridors as "a hole through class b airspace", and shows
such in figure 3-5-2 (at least in my 2001 aim). LAX is just this way.
From what I see of dca area from March 2002 jepp chart, these two
corridors are "under" class b, not "through". Same for Houston, which
I have Jul 1999 Jepp info.

It appears LAX has the only true vfr corridor, unless someone has
other examples
Stan

On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 12:29:38 -0400, "Ron Natalie"
wrote:


wrote in message ...
Do I read the aim right that the special flight rules airspace over
top of LAX is actually still classified as a VFR corridor?

And secondly, are there any other vfr corridors in the US?

Not that are Special Flight Rules. A lot of class B's that are formed from
overlaps of multiple primary airports have area that is just excluded (without
restriction) from the class B. An example is NY where there is a tunnel
down the Hudson (the chart does have some notations about traffic advisories)
and DC which has two tunnels (one between IAD and DCA, which unfortunately
is now eaten up by the stupid-assed no-fly zone and one between DCA and BWI
which is only partially eaten, but inside the ADIZ). Several others have sort of
notches cut out of their edges for non-Class B transition.

LAX's is called a "Special Flight Rules Area", not a VFR corridor, some parts of the SFRA require
ATC comminucation, the one over the top of LAX does not. This is per my current JeppGuide.
San Diego specifically says VFR corridor.

wrote:

But I don't think these are true "vfr corridors". The aim 3.5.5.b
describes corridors as "a hole through class b airspace", and shows
such in figure 3-5-2 (at least in my 2001 aim). LAX is just this way.
From what I see of dca area from March 2002 jepp chart, these two
corridors are "under" class b, not "through". Same for Houston, which
I have Jul 1999 Jepp info.

It appears LAX has the only true vfr corridor, unless someone has
other examples
Stan

On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 12:29:38 -0400, "Ron Natalie"
wrote:


wrote in message ...
Do I read the aim right that the special flight rules airspace over
top of LAX is actually still classified as a VFR corridor?

And secondly, are there any other vfr corridors in the US?

Not that are Special Flight Rules. A lot of class B's that are formed from
overlaps of multiple primary airports have area that is just excluded (without
restriction) from the class B. An example is NY where there is a tunnel
down the Hudson (the chart does have some notations about traffic advisories)
and DC which has two tunnels (one between IAD and DCA, which unfortunately
is now eaten up by the stupid-assed no-fly zone and one between DCA and BWI
which is only partially eaten, but inside the ADIZ). Several others have sort of
notches cut out of their edges for non-Class B transition.