Pilot reports of busy and confusing airspace while landing at kldj.

Attributes
ACN	1173552
Time
Date	201405
Local Time Of Day	0601-1200
Place
Locale Reference	N90.TRACON
State Reference	NY
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Small Transport
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Final Approach
Route In Use	Other GPS A
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	Captain Single Pilot
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP) Flight Crew Flight Instructor Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Multiengine
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 50 Flight Crew Total 9500 Flight Crew Type 1800
Events
Anomaly	ATC Issue All Types

Narrative:

Flying into kldj is a real challenge on a VFR day as they run you right up to the airport on the GPS a and it's very hard to cancel and stay out of the class B airspace (800 feet on the airport and 500 east of it). Unicom (no tower) is no help to find out what's happening and approach doesn't want you to leave them to call unless you cancel. All this time departures at kewr are shut down till you cancel IFR and you still don't know who is in the pattern or what runway is in use. Somebody is going to get hurt here trying to stay out of the airspace. I tried calling kewr tower and approach on the phone to gain local knowledge but that was no help as they didn't know or were too busy. The problem here is the transition from IFR to VFR is done too late.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: Pilot reports of busy and confusing airspace while landing at KLDJ.

Narrative: Flying into KLDJ is a real challenge on a VFR day as they run you right up to the airport on the GPS A and it's very hard to cancel and stay out of the Class B airspace (800 feet on the airport and 500 east of it). Unicom (No tower) is no help to find out what's happening and Approach doesn't want you to leave them to call unless you cancel. All this time departures at KEWR are shut down till you cancel IFR and you still don't know who is in the pattern or what runway is in use. Somebody is going to get hurt here trying to stay out of the airspace. I tried calling KEWR Tower and Approach on the phone to gain local knowledge but that was no help as they didn't know or were too busy. The problem here is the transition from IFR to VFR is done too late.

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