Filed flight plan the day before for 7000 ft ART, UCA, DNY, IGN, CMK, KHPN.
Hint: I use fltplan.com for flight planning and to check the common routes given to others who flew similar routes. I then choose the route flown by a similar class of plane.
I had filed eAPIS, got clearance and called customs at the field the day before asking about hours of operation.
Prior to departure, I called Kingston and got this clearance: Cleared to White Plains airport via Kingston, Watertown, Flight Planned Route, Climb to 6000, Squak 1001, Contact Montreal on 134.67
Climbed out and called Montreal on 134.67 who had us ident and handed us off to TAC at 124.87 within a couple of minutes. They also had us ident and confirm passing altitude. They asked if we wanted 7000 which I had asked for. They checked in with Montreal and gave it to us. We then were handed off to 127.42 to Syracuse Approach after 10 min. We were over the scenic Catskills mountains (which has more than 30 peaks over 3500 feet)
Then after 25 min we got 133.25 who said after DNY go to NOOBI for NOOBI 5 Arrival. Busy airspace now! Then got handed off to 134.3 to Boston Center who gave us direct PETER. We were asked to cross NAVIAT and maintain 6000 - I couldn’t find it, so I told them that so they said go to CARMEL and maintain 6000.
We were then handed off to New York 120.8 who asked if we had Mike. I had proactively gotten the latest ATIS November, so I said that we have November. They gave us the weather and said expect Sound Visual 34 approach, then had us go down to 3000 and asked us to fly heading 190 and call runway in sight, then to fly heading 200, then took us down to 2000 and vectored us to 220 at which point we called runway in sight.
KHPN cleared us for runway 34 which put us at right base at any point for the landing. Upon landing we were went to Taxiway F and called ground saying we want to go to customs. We crossed 11/29 into Jett System at taxiway K to go to wait for US Customs at the ramp which we did.
Customs came out in less than five minutes with the radiation check device and had us go in. We were then asked for passports, what we do for a living, asked where we were staying, if we had anything to declare and then we were free to go. Jet Systems didn’t have any tie downs so we were sent next door to Million Air. I called ground and taxied over to Million Air. I fueled up on the ramp at Million Air so that there's one less thing to do the next day. They moved the plane to tie downs and tied down the plane for us.
I had booked our car through Hertz the day before for pickup at Million Air. At Million Air they got our reservation number and got us setup with our car in 15 min! We returned the car the next day (129 miles driven, and returned with full gas); the car rental was $60.
Millon Air FBO # 914-946-0100 136 Tower Road, White Plaines, NY 10604.
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