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Touchdown! Greaser!
Had to go out to the airport yesterday to get the O2 bottles filled. Since it was "early" on a Friday (4:30 PM), I decided to take the plane up. LNS was the destination. Planned for ARSNL2 MRB V93 LRP KLNS under IFR at 9,000. I got ARSNL2 MRB V501 HGR V377 HAR -> LRP KLNS. Potomac was busy (I lifted off after 5 PM) - so I was held down to 6,000, sent 10 miles west of CSN before I was given direct to MRB. I was about at MRB before I was given higher. NY Center did give me direct somewhere around SCAPE and I shot the ILS into LNS (weather was reporting 5 in haze, but it really was closer to 3 on the ILS).
Turned around and came back - again being routed over HGR and MRB despite filing a routing over FDK. But... Washington Center gave me direct - directly over Camp David/P40 (which was reduced). After verifying the clearance, it turned out to be a pretty nice ride. But the whole thing took about 30 minutes longer than plan.
A couple of interesting things - Potomac is apparently allowing folks to go VFR up the east side outside of the FRZ. The old transition is gone (thanks to the FRZ), but I hear a couple of folks authorised VFR up the east side.
The second is traffic conflict resolution - ATC cleared a bizjet on a vector at 500' above a VFR target (on the east side of IAD). Bizjet got a TCAS alert and went to deviate east - ATC scolded him because he came very close to clipping the FRZ. Bizjet fussed at ATC because the TCAS alert was a 400' discrepency (bizjet said "that's too close") and ATC fussed back ("both of you are talking to me and have the altimeter setting and are on altitude"). A pretty testy exchange that nearly had the bizjet in the FRZ.
As I said, interesting trip, as much for that (and going over P40) as anything else.
Turned around and came back - again being routed over HGR and MRB despite filing a routing over FDK. But... Washington Center gave me direct - directly over Camp David/P40 (which was reduced). After verifying the clearance, it turned out to be a pretty nice ride. But the whole thing took about 30 minutes longer than plan.
A couple of interesting things - Potomac is apparently allowing folks to go VFR up the east side outside of the FRZ. The old transition is gone (thanks to the FRZ), but I hear a couple of folks authorised VFR up the east side.
The second is traffic conflict resolution - ATC cleared a bizjet on a vector at 500' above a VFR target (on the east side of IAD). Bizjet got a TCAS alert and went to deviate east - ATC scolded him because he came very close to clipping the FRZ. Bizjet fussed at ATC because the TCAS alert was a 400' discrepency (bizjet said "that's too close") and ATC fussed back ("both of you are talking to me and have the altimeter setting and are on altitude"). A pretty testy exchange that nearly had the bizjet in the FRZ.
As I said, interesting trip, as much for that (and going over P40) as anything else.
