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Old May 17th 05, 04:46 PM
Michelle P
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I typically file one NASA form a week. Usually from airspace incursions.
Last week they threw up a TFR inside the ADIZ and FRZ. The controller
called us and told us it was there but did not have details yet. General
location was given and we avoided it. Turns out he had the location
wrong and we flew right threw it.
I have had late responses and confusing one as well.

The near miss filings in the ADIZ do not surprise me. We are flying a
couple hundred feet about most of the local airport traffic patterns. We
are usually listening and talking on the local airport freq when in the
area. We can't always listen if National, Baltimore or Potomac is
talking frequently to us. Only one near miss report has come from me. A
helo in the pattern at Davison turned late for crosswind and came close
enough we could almost read the names on the uniforms.
Michelle

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Ok now that I have your attention..... I fly one of those aircraft as
well. I fly Traffic survey over the skies of Washington DC.
Always one our toes below 1300 is too low and above 1500 puts us in the
Class B most of the time. ...



In the database of NASA forms ( https://www.nasdac.faa.gov/ ) there is at
least one complaint that such low-flyers are common in the DC ADIZ and often
interfere with local airports' traffic patterns.

There is some interesting reading there. There are about 100 records for
2004, devoted strictly to the DC ADIZ... everything from NMACs and gear-up
landings due to ADIZ distractions, to inadvertent penetrations because of
slow controller response or outright controller errors, to outright mistaken
identity by investigators (one guy claimed to be working in his medical
practice, at the moment he was supposedly squawking 1200 through the ADIZ).