Day Trip to NY City

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There is no question that Republic is a nicer airport than Linden. However the statements about the intimidation factor are very misleading. From the midpoint of the eastern side of Staten Island to Linden Airport is only about 10NM. From the vicinity of the Verrazano Bridge to Republic is about 35 nm. Add in the extra 40 minutes round trip on the train from Republic plus the extra flight time and you have wasted one hour plus.
Look at a google map of Staten Island. About midway on the east side of the island is Miller Field, an abandoned airport. It is a very visible landmark. From just south of Miller field, straight to the west, there are NO published obstructions of any significance. About half of this route is unpopulated areas, few if any are suitable for emergency landings. Remain just outside the Newark 6.5NM ring, below 1500', until directly south of Linden Airport, then down to below 800' before crossing the Newark 6.5 arc.
If Newark is using runway4(parallels), landing traffic will be about 1500' abeam of Linden Airport.If Newark is using runway 22, the traffic over Linden will be higher. This gives a lot of separation for Linden traffic pattern. The goal is to keep your pattern close in to Linden, especially landing to the west. Study the airport diagram and traffic pattern as well as the routing from Staten Island. It is really much easier than it looks.