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Requirements for Flight
Current New York VFR Terminal Area Chart
VFR conditions
Good radios - emphasis on the plural
Good radio procedures -
                 If you are timid on the radio don't go!  New York approach
                 communicates to LOTS of traffic at twice the speed of controllers
                 in other metro areas and they do NOT have time to deal with a GA
                 pilot who cannot listen, understand and communicate in quick
                 time.  The same is true of  the commercial helicopter pilots who
                 crowd the Class B Exclusion corridors on a daily basis taking
                 their passengers into and out of the city.
                 In addition to communicating with New York Approach, Newark
                 Tower  and Teterboro Tower while flying in the exclusion area,
                 you must self-announce and communicate continuously with the
                 high-density traffic over the Hudson River on 123.05 and over
                 the East River on 123.075