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Yesterday we left Salisbury, MD on the last leg back home. The weather maps showed high pressure over the Northeast. It being summer there is a lot of moisture in the air so even though there were no clouds it was still pretty hazy.

The plan for the route was to go over the entrance to the Delaware Bay to Cape May, then North on the East side of Philly, towards Trenton, NJ and remaining on the West side of the NYC airspace. If conditions looked OK we would ask the NY approach controllers if we could go 'over the top'. The NYC class 'B' airspace goes from the ground up to 7,000 feet. We were flying at 7,500 feet.

Before we got to the point of asking to go over the top, they asked us if we wanted to go direct. Technically, we didn't really need their permission since we would have been outside of their airspace but it's a busy place so if they had said 'no' we would have stayed to the West.

So we went right over the city at 7,500 feet. It was a great view. On the first leg of the trip, to Bar Harbor, the Boston controllers sent us thru their airspace, just 10 miles West of the city.

So here are a number of photos of NYC from 7,500 feet above.

A jet that passed 400 feet over head.

NJ.

JFK airport.

La Guardia airport.

OK, so here are some totals. We were gone for 5 and a half weeks. We put 50 hours on the plane's engine (time for an oil change).

We landed at 20 airports.
In 15 states.
Stayed in 15 hotels and rented 15 cars.
We flew approximately 4,400 nautical miles.

Here's one last photo. It's Pete putting his plane back into the hanger at the end of the trip. Thanks for watching!