D.C. area flight restriction to be imposed during State of the Union Address
The Federal Aviation Administration, at the request of DHS and the Pentagon, will be modifying the Washington Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) and Washington Metropolitan Flight Restriction Zone (FRZ) with additional flight restrictions on 28 January 2008
Want to to take a couple of friends in your small Cessna and fly it over Washington, D.C. on 28 January 2008 to show them the sites? D’ont. The presdient is scheduled to deliver his 2008 State of the Union address on this day, and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), at the request of DHS and the Department of Defense, will be modifying the Washington Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) and Washington Metropolitan Flight Restriction Zone (FRZ) with additional flight restrictions between the hours of 20:00 and 23:00 local time.
What you and I would call “pencil,” a government bureaucrat would call “hand-held, lead-filled writing implement.” Here is the government description of the DC ADIZ: It is “that area of airspace over the surface of the earth where the ready identification, location, and control of aircraft is required in the interests of national security. Specifically, the DC ADIZ is that airspace, from the surface to but not including FL180, within a 30-mile radius of 385134N/0770211W or the DCA VOR/DME.”