Aircraft Hire NY City Area
 

I am off to NY early part of September and wondered if anybody could reccomend an FBO for aircraft hire? I have a US licence but usually take an instructor for the RT/Nav so that I can enjoy the flying.

Also, must be able to get to them by public transport.

I've just spent a wonderful weekend in Andover NJ (50 miles West of NYC) at
Aeroflex (Andover Flight Academy).

Spent some time in their Stearman & J3.

Thoroughly recommend the Stearman, and at £125 ph Dual it's cheapest Stearman training I could find, compared to £500 ph in the UK.

Not sure about the transport links as it's a bit out in the sticks, well worth the effort though!

P....

Panorama at KHPN just to the North of the City (train and taxi)
Air Training at KTEB close by in NJ (they also do Linden a bit to the south) (train/taxi or bus)

Morristown and Caldwell (Essex) are a bit farther into NJ - but not as far as Andover - and a little less frenetic than HPN and TEB.

at £125 ph Duel

Did you have to fight with the controls?? :)

www.performanceflightny.com if you want to fly a cirrus SR20 or SR22 I was there this year and had a great flight around Manhattan at 1500ft, Practice steep turns over the statue of Liberty etc, we also landed at a few local airfields and Andrew's Airforce base.

I got a train to Weschester from Grand Central Station which is a must visit site in New York in it self, the train was about 45 minutes and $15 return as I recall, they may pick you up at the Station or a cab was only $10 or so.

KHPN - is an interesting airfield with Jets etc operating.

PM me if you want any more info or contact

Performance Flight
Lewis Liebert
(914) 227-3481
[email protected]
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Fly NYC
 

Lots of good places around NYC but Westchester is probably the easiest if you are in the city and don't want to rent a car.

Aeroflex is a great spot but you will need a rental car. Stay away from TEB. It is easy to get to but very busy with Exec Jet traffic.

20driver

Thanks for the reccomendations
 

Hi,

Thanks for the reccomendations. Goto NY quite a lot but never been able to fly there before!

I thought the best thing to do was do a search and see what it throws up at me. I also am going to be in NY for a few days but I want to rent a R44. Can anyone point me in the direction of a heli school?

Ive just been on to a company based near NY called awesome flight and they inform me that I cannot just rent a machine with a pilot that isnt a discovery flight. I need TSA clearence, fingerprints etc etc. Can anyone confirm this or point me in a direction that I can get the exact information I need to do a bit of private flying in NY.

dabs
 

you don't need any of that to just rent and fly, only for training
you do need ID and they might want to check you out for a while longer if they don't know you
( I mean you could do a load of damage in a 172)