GA Life near Manhattan

Please consider Greenwood Lake Airport, 4N1, NE of Sparta, NJ.

Several C172 rentals, nice, small airport, but easy access.

This past week, I flew with my buddy in his C182 to do the
Hudson River tour... Tappan Zee Bridge to the Statue of Liberty
and back. FUN! Then, to Danbury... 4 resturants in EASY 4
block walking distance from Business Aviation FBO (SP?).

Then, we went out to Martha's Vineyard for lunch, landing on
the 4000' grass runway at Katama (SP?), and walked to
the beach. So, we were able to do safely what JFK Jr was
UNABLE to do... fly to Martha's Vineyard and "wash up
on the beach". :-)

In rec.aviation.misc Marty Ross wrote:
I'll be moving to Manhattan from Los Angeles (does it get any more extreme?)
next month.

Any advice or relevant anecdotes out there to help me gather some leads
about continuing my flying hobby from there? I've been renting (in L.A.) -
usually from the FBO where I did my training.
I'm IFR rated with about 300hrs., and am pretty OK with the (busy) L.A.
airspace and ATC. I haven't looked at a NY sectional yet.

I've just started to look at airports near to where I will be (using Airnav,
FS2004 and other web tools), and I found "Linden" (LDJ) and "Essex" (CDW).
In fact, there appears to be a flying club that has a presence at both of
those.

I guess my main concern is easy transportation to/from these (or any other)
airports I might use, as I will be giving up my car (I hear it's a luxury
*not* to have a car living in Manhattan), and to learn about possible
desitations (nice places to go for a day or a weekend).

Any leads, tips or general discussion of GA from people living in/around
Manhattan would be great!






Best regards,

Jer/ "Flight instruction and mountain flying are my vocation!" Eberhard

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