Flight Restricted Zone Here is a AOPA PDF worth reading.

Glorious day on Thursday! I shot a several projects within the Special flight restricted zone for a government agency. Loads of fun to be back above Arlington and Alexandria.

We took off in the Hughes 500 from Manassas Airport. The local airport authority was training fireman how to put out aircraft fires. The Commonwealth has a training aircraft that is used with a fire mat and a crash dummy to simulate a fire with Jet A and a victim on the ground.

Flying over the Columbia Island Marina on the east side of the Pentagon. The Washington DC border is the Virginia shoreline of the Potomac at low tide. For this image looking back toward Lady Bird Johnson Memorial Park, we are, technically, flying over Washington, DC.

The Special Flight Restriction Zone requires Secret Service plus TSA waivers to enter. It is a somewhat difficult process to go through, however, I have shot within the FRZ and SFRZ many times. I miss being able to scoot into downtown DC and shoot with ease. I appreciate the simplicity of flying in other cities. Often we work out our schedules and approaches with the Air Traffic Controllers and off we go. That makes life simple.

DC is a special place with unique airspace restrictions that are required to protect the city.

The FRZ is the outer ring on the map. The inner ring of the AOPA map is the Special Flight Restriction Zone.