"John" wrote in message ...

Several times I heard, "8593V, you are loud and clear. How do you read?".
However, when I responded they didn't hear me. I climbed to 4000', and
tried 124.65 again. This time I got a response and they could hear me. I
got a squawk code and was told to proceed (after being led to beleive that
he could not find my flight plan).

They try to find the filed plan, but if they can't, they'll let you in provided
you assure yourself you've met the regulatory requiremements to have done so.

He told me that below 1200', I could
have contacted Quantico Approach on 127.05. I asked him how I was supposed
to know that, and he told me that he did not know. How are we supposed to
know the approach frequencies and their limitations, if not on the chart?

127.05 is listed in Quantico's AF/D communciations sectoion..
119.85 might have been better, the BRV is a major entry point for DCA
traffic.

If you have an issues with PCT, you are encouraged to log a QA issue
(540 349 7541) and they will follow up on it. They've still got a lot to
work on. The last meeting I went to where they tried to show how easy
it was to get into the ADIZ, they started by calling the FSS and got
routed to Altoona which didn't know what the procedure was, then they
found their flight plan for EMI got routed to ZNY etc...