Boston City Tour

A few weeks ago I invited a friend of mine to come along for a sight seeing tour with a CFI (Certified Flight Instructor). We took off from RWY 16 at Beverly in a Piper Warrior. We weren't sure how busy Boston Tower was. It was a Sunday afternoon with overcast skies at 9000 and winds negligible, a perfect day for nice steady sight seeing flying. As we approached Logan's airspace, we put in a VFR request and Logan Tower cleared us to fly the Boston City Tour Route at or below 1000ft msl (mean sea level).

As we approached Boston from the North, we overflew the end of RWY 22R at Logan and headed west to enter City at Rowes Wharf, Boston Harbor. There we turned south and circled the city twice. It was an amazing experience, to have a perspective of Boston that few people will ever get to see. We could see people walking on the street, see the sign that lines a side of Fenway about Guns. We even flew over my old college dorm building in West Village, Northeastern University.

Being a pilot is truly a privilege. It literally changes the way you view the world. There are no lines separating states and countries as those you see on a map. Boundaries disappear when you are in the air and its just you and the world below.