NYC Airspace

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Here's what has some people worried. If you are the pilot of a low-flying private plane, there are no rules, no flight plans. All you have to do as you approach New York City is say: 'I'm here.' This is what Senator Charles Schumer wants to change.

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Sen. Charles Schumer, New York City (D): "There's a gaping hole in New York's air security. It's small planes that fly below 2,000 feet, and they can go virtually wherever they want."

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In fact, many New Yorkers are surprised and certainly worried to learn what a spokesman at the Air Traffic Controllers Association told us today on the phone.

Eric Chouinard, National Air Traffic Controllers Association: "Any plane can fly down the Hudson River or up the East River below 1,200 feet without even talking to air traffic control."

From WABC in New York.

Weren't we all worried about crop dusters and shit a couple years back? This is really good, some joker can fly up and down the Hudson Valley, from Staten Island to Quebec, and hose us down with whatever they want, and no one would notice until folks started dropping like flies. But New York is a blue state, so who in the White House gives a shit. Assholes.