New York City – Helicopter Flight
We booked a helicopter tour over New York. The best way to organize it is through the respective hotel where you are staying in New York.
We are picked up from the hotel by a stretch limousine. The helicopter’s launch site is in Manhattan on the banks of the Hudson River. The flight is supposed to go around Manhattan, so to speak. We are not allowed to fly directly over the city.
In earlier years, this was still possible, when the helicopters could also land on the roofs of skyscrapers. After an accident in which a helicopter fell from the roof of a skyscraper, flights over the city were banned. The pilot always steers his aircraft past the edge of Manhattan and we fly over the Hudson River.
The view is fantastic and we can only really see the dimensions of the city of New York from this height. In the city of Manhattan, one skyscraper follows the other. From up here, you can see that New York rises only a few meters out of the sea. From the people’s perspective, you can also admire the grid-shaped network of streets that opens up Manhattan.
