PTH - You need to get out more, it is not that bad
This is a topic I can comment on as I live in the area and fly the corridor.
I won't fly the corridor on the weekend, but then I avoid any sight seeing flying on VFR weekends. If you look at mid air stats the majority occur around an airport on a VFR day, almost always on weekends. ASF has a really good report on this.
It really amazes me how many supposed pilots on here are yelling ban it.
In the mega millions of commercial movements in the NYC in the last 50 years how many collisions between GA VFR aircraft and anything but an apartment building?
TCAS - sounds fine except without regular training and pilot proficiency it is not good. (TCAS in helicopters in this airspace I suspect would be quickly turned off) I seem to remember something about that a few years back in Überlingen? Not to mention dumping a lot of cost on GA. Make it so expensive no one can fly, then you will never have a mid air. Sort of like what they are doing in Europe.
Sad to see supposed professional pilots shooting off like politicians.
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