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While the Expressway Visual has it's moments, downtown Manhattan and Central Park aren't any of them. The River Visual comes across Manhattan, but if you come across Central Park on that one you're doing it wrong and the possibility of you landing on 13 isn't too good.......
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The Expressway Visual doesn't take you over the Hudson...as you are describing. I think you're getting vectors for the LDA A for 22. But I agree...one unbelievable view of the mythical city.
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I went back and googled several maps of NYC to make sure I wasn't mistaken. What I'm talking about isn't part of the actual Expressway Visual. When you approach NYC from the Northeast LGA approach usually tells you to go direct LGA VOR and then proceed on an outbound heading of something like 220. Anyway, you look out to the right and see White Plains and feel sorry for the Colganites based there. You get vectored over Central Park and along the Hudson over downtown and lower Manhattan. Right over lower Manhattan is when they tell you to turn left direct the tanks, cleared for the approach. The tanks are the beginning of the Expressway Visual, of course.