How to Fly the Hudson River Corridor
Channel: Over 50 and Learning To Fly!
Date: 2021-08-25

If you live anywhere near NY or anywhere near the east coast you should fly the Hudson River Corridor- its is probably one of the best VFR experiences you can do – even as a new pilot- and the experience will make you a better pilot as well.  Also if you are going up to the Northeast, like Maine or even further this is one of the best shortcuts you can take…. Provided you follow all the rules.
The first thing you want to do is download the Hudson VFR corridor NOTAM and this doc will pop up-  now the document is titled “kneeboard”  because that’s what someone called it when they loaded it on to FAAsafety .gov    Ill put a link in the description…

https://www.faasafety.gov/files/gslac/courses/content/79/775/kneeboard.pdf

Print this document out or store it in your Foreflight dox and memorize this entire document and follow all the rules on it-  its not that complicated – just make sure you are squawking and talking…

Make sure you have a copy of this in the cockpit with you as a kneeboard just in case you need to reference it.  For the first time flyer-  you need someone with you-  this isn’t a solo first trip.  I think this was the 3rd time I have done this and it is still a thrill… It’s a quick trip-  the corridor only takes about 10 minutes… and you can turn around at the GWB and head back or continue up the Hudson to Hudson Valley regional where the scenery is beautiful, get a crew car and go into town and grab a nice lunch and catch the same awesome view on the way home…   so have a look and I hope you get to do this trip soon!  


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