airman wrote:
The CNN pilot-reporter, Miles O'Brien, made a good point. These guys took
off from an uncontrolled airfield, \

Smoketown is almost inside LNS's class D airspace. I've been into LNS
a dozen times for maintenance. I learned to fly at a similar towered
field. Learning class B procedures was a completely different thing.
The ADIZ is unlike anything else. It's not an air traffic concept.
ATC isn't tasked with facilitating or enforcing it, just issuing the
squawk codes. ATC doesn't even know if you've really filed an ADIZ
plan or not. If they don't get an IFR strip on you (which is how
ADIZ plans get to controllers), and you assert that you did file one,
they will (as time permits) manually allocate you a squawk code.
They were emphatic in local pilot meetings that they are not the
flight plan police.

Flying in the DC area with several P-areas, and a rather busy class B
has never been for the faint of heart. Situational awareness is
the key.