FAA regs. for minimum altitudes over built-up areas

On Fri, 13 Oct 2006 20:57:46 -0500, Jim Macklin wrote:

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

Wouldn't flight over an ocean liner constitute "congested"?

Laugh

- Andrew

Don't forget the United Network Command for Law Enforcement.
And Mr. Steed and Emma Peel investigated FOG and SMOG.


"Andrew Gideon" wrote in message
news | On Sat, 14 Oct 2006 00:38:54 +0000, B A R R Y wrote:
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| Chaos?
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| YES!!! THAT'S IT!!!
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| Too bad. I thought it was an amusing reference to "Get
Smart".
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| - Andrew
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No, but it is a structure. But if you're dropping life
jackets you are exempt.



"Andrew Gideon" wrote in message
news | On Fri, 13 Oct 2006 20:57:46 -0500, Jim Macklin wrote:
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| over water you can fly at just clear as long as you stay
500 feet from
| people, boats and suchlike.
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| Wouldn't flight over an ocean liner constitute
"congested"?
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| Laugh
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| - Andrew
|

"PPL-A (Canada)" wrote in message
ups.com...
Considering that the ideal flight paths of A/C up and down this VFR
corridor are within a few hundred feet of the shoreline, this type of
flying would not be permitted in Canada.

Sounds like yet another reason not to live up in the frozen north, eh?

In fact when I think about it, I spent a few weeks in Boca Raton,
Florida not too long ago and noticed that A/C are regularly flying up
and down the shore-line, well within 2000 ft horizontally of built up
areas and condos 200 - 300 feet tall, at altitudes as low as 300 feet
AGL. I know there's an airport nearby, but most of these planes were
not taking of, landing, or flying any kind of published approach. They
were, like most traffic in those NYC VFR corridors, sight-seeing.

And they weren't causing any problems... Imagine that, freedom to do
something as long as you're not causing problems... Radical concept, eh?

I live, and got my training in (and above) Toronto, and this type of
low level flying isn't permitted, and rarely seen.

More to your loss, eh?

We have a very vocal anti-airport interest group here, and if this kind
of flying were permitted over Toronto, our downtown airport would be
under even more pressure than it aleady is to be shut down. I cannot
imagine what the reaction would be if if a private A/C actually crashed
into a building in the downtown area.

Well, as long as it doesn't destroy any of your cultural icons like a Tim
Hortons...

Andrew Gideon wrote:
Wouldn't flight over an ocean liner constitute "congested"?

What if the passengers all had stuffy noses?

Missed it by that much.



"B A R R Y" wrote in
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| On Sat, 14 Oct 2006 20:35:38 -0400, Andrew Gideon

| wrote:
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| Too bad. I thought it was an amusing reference to "Get
Smart".
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| - Andrew
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| I forgot all about "Get Smart". G

Grumman-581 wrote:
"PPL-A (Canada)" wrote in message
ups.com...
Considering that the ideal flight paths of A/C up and down this VFR
corridor are within a few hundred feet of the shoreline, this type of
flying would not be permitted in Canada.

Sounds like yet another reason not to live up in the frozen north, eh?

In fact when I think about it, I spent a few weeks in Boca Raton,
Florida not too long ago and noticed that A/C are regularly flying up
and down the shore-line, well within 2000 ft horizontally of built up
areas and condos 200 - 300 feet tall, at altitudes as low as 300 feet
AGL. I know there's an airport nearby, but most of these planes were
not taking of, landing, or flying any kind of published approach. They
were, like most traffic in those NYC VFR corridors, sight-seeing.

And they weren't causing any problems... Imagine that, freedom to do
something as long as you're not causing problems... Radical concept, eh?

I live, and got my training in (and above) Toronto, and this type of
low level flying isn't permitted, and rarely seen.

More to your loss, eh?

We have a very vocal anti-airport interest group here, and if this kind
of flying were permitted over Toronto, our downtown airport would be
under even more pressure than it aleady is to be shut down. I cannot
imagine what the reaction would be if if a private A/C actually crashed
into a building in the downtown area.

Well, as long as it doesn't destroy any of your cultural icons like a Tim
Hortons...


Nice post ... very nice, thoughtful, and helpful.

I would gladly give up this so-called cultural icon of ours if you down
there could but for a few years do without your most iconic franchises
.... arrogance, ignorance, and selfishness.

Have fun then, buzzing your beaches, roof-tops, and tree-tops in the
name of "freedom", until your number comes up ... hell the FAA ought to
give you a special suit to do it in with a cape and everything ...

PPL-A