[RogueIsland]

Folks, it is not impossible for this guy to be monitoring the wrong frequency to hear the attempted contacts, not be familiar enough with the local airspace and have made this mistake. A violation, but not a death penalty one.

I'm sure most of the comments are from people who simply haven't any idea at all about VFR flying. There is a misconception among much of the public that everything in the air has a rigid flight plan with every facet monitored and mapped out by some omnipotent air traffic control system, when nothing could be farther from the truth. And especially around NYC, if you're flying out of Teterboro or Essex County, it can be easy to get too close to the NYC airport TCAs (yeah, I know they don't call them that anymore. I haven't flown in a bit!).

BTW, in days long gone, I used to fly VFR up the Hudson and back again. Absolutely beautiful looking at NYC up close at night from the air. A shame nobody will experience that anymore because of a bunch of psychopathic moron jihadists.

[HairOfTheDog]

I still say TCA too.... My CFI is out of date and I am not sure I could pass the re-up with all these new-fangled words for things.

[bootless]

Don't worry, I still call them TCAs, too.

The Hudson Tour (or whatever it's called - I'm in the Bay Area now) is a spectacularly beautiful flight, esp. at night.

And thank God our VFR flight is not strictly controlled every step of the way. It's still a piece of independent America.

However, I think that manners in the traffic pattern would be improved if we could have the option of having hard points on our aircraft... :-)