Because there is a "VFR Flyway" over the Hudson that lets aircraft travel through on their own guidance, and providing their own look-out for other traffic, if they stay below a certain altitude.
The early Ryanair traffic was based on fare-conscious Irish folk visiting friends and relatives, the so-called "VFR segment" that has always been the bedrock of Southwest's market.
This is what airlines called "VFR" (visiting friends and relatives) traffic.
Where visibility is good and aircraft can operate under visual flight rules (VFR), operational capacity increases from the lowest level, crossed runways, through the closed V and open V configurations.
Some riders will surely be drawn to the new VFR by its engine layout alone; Honda has a three-decade tradition of building V-4s for racing, sport riding and even cruisers.
Selecting it takes the VFR's price to $17,499, an increase of $1,500 over the manual-shift model.
Because the New York VFR flyways, and their counterparts in other big cities, are very busy, there are all sorts of specific instructions for flying there..
An increase in operational capacity under VFR is possible with the use of a close parallel runway configuration.
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Sure, the VFR outpowers many entries in the sport-touring class, but there is also a risk that power-hungry riders will walk right past it and sign up for a sportbike without pausing to learn the charms of this hard-to-classify machine.
At $15,999 the VFR1200F costs $1,600 more than a pure sportbike like the CBR1000RR (when equipped with antilock brakes), and $1,700 less than the ST1300 ABS sport-touring model; optional hard saddlebags for the VFR cost $1,400.
