Day 9, a travel day to the Washington DC area.
We entered the dreaded Washington DC ADIZ and lived to tell about it :-) Actually, a friend who has been through the ADIZ VFR says it's a piece of cake. While we did so today IFR, I'd have to agree. Well, there was that one moment about 10 miles from entering the ADIZ where Patomic approach said they'd lost our transponder. The funny thing is that the reply light was lit almost solid green with all of the replies. A few minutes later, they tell us all is well as they're receiving the mode-C replies ok.
It was pretty much an uneventful IFR flight from Poughkeepsie, NY today. We had to spend a few minutes on the ground figuring out the route we were given and there was one re-route about half way to our destination. Nothing too major but given the unfamiliar airspace, it was nice having two IFR rated pilots on board so we could split up the flying duties.
Tomorrow: The Udvar-Hazy museum.
Monday, September 08, 2008
Midwest/East coast trip, day 9
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Yeah the airspace around NYC and down throughout Jersey is just a minefield of restricted/MOA and god knows what else. It is Jersey after all... The routings definitely get a little bit hairy but funstuff none the less. Did you get to fly direct over JFK? Cause thaaaaaaat is fun!
Nope, didn't fly over JFK but can imagine that it's tons of fun. I've flown within a mile of the top of SFO and that was fun.
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