Long Island, NY (USA)
- Aircraft Year
- 1976
- Aircraft Type
- 114
- Reg Number
- N127XY
- Serial Number
- 14039
Re: Wash DC Advice Please
There are three airspace "rings" around DC. The inner ring is the FRZ, and don't think about going there (unless you want to land an ultralight on the Capitol lawn). The middle ring is the SFRA boundary. The outer ring is the 60nm SFRA "veil".
In order to fly VFR into the 60nm veil you must have completed the free, FAA-provided online course. That means you must pass the course even if you only plan on going to Martin State or Frederick.
For the closer fields (Tipton, Gaithersburg, etcetera) you also need only pass the same course. However, you must also file an SFRA flight plan, and enter/exit the SFRA through prescribed airspace "gates", and be in contact with ATC and squawk an assigned transponder code. All of which is discussed in the online course.
Step 1, then, before you consider flying to that conference, is to take and pass the course, and print out your certificate of completion:
http://www.faasafety.gov/gslac/ALC/courseLanding.aspx?cID=405
Since there is a Metro station near the Marriot, your best plan might be the same advice that Bailey had given to Sedam: fly into Gaithersburg and take a cab to the Metro station, or just rent a car and drive in.
There are three airspace "rings" around DC. The inner ring is the FRZ, and don't think about going there (unless you want to land an ultralight on the Capitol lawn). The middle ring is the SFRA boundary. The outer ring is the 60nm SFRA "veil".
In order to fly VFR into the 60nm veil you must have completed the free, FAA-provided online course. That means you must pass the course even if you only plan on going to Martin State or Frederick.
For the closer fields (Tipton, Gaithersburg, etcetera) you also need only pass the same course. However, you must also file an SFRA flight plan, and enter/exit the SFRA through prescribed airspace "gates", and be in contact with ATC and squawk an assigned transponder code. All of which is discussed in the online course.
Step 1, then, before you consider flying to that conference, is to take and pass the course, and print out your certificate of completion:
http://www.faasafety.gov/gslac/ALC/courseLanding.aspx?cID=405
Since there is a Metro station near the Marriot, your best plan might be the same advice that Bailey had given to Sedam: fly into Gaithersburg and take a cab to the Metro station, or just rent a car and drive in.
