Peter: It's complicated, but that's part of the problem. The Flight
Restricted Zone (FRZ) around the White House and Capitol is generally
off limits to GA, whether VFR or IFR. There is sort of an exception
for folks who have been vetted by the TSA and had a background check
including fingerprints, allowing them to fly in or out of the three GA
airports at the edges of the FRZ if they file a flight plan on the
ground by phone with the Leesburg FSS, give a unique PIN, and squawk a
discrete code given to them. They can't just fly around in the FRZ,
though, only to/from the so-called DC-3 airports in the FRZ. I guess
the additional TFR grounds those flights.

Mark

Peter R. wrote:
blanche cohen wrote:

There's a TFR today over DC for the State of the Union address.
I don't understand why when there's been a massive one in
place for the past 4 years.

My understanding is that even GA aircraft on an IFR flight plan cannot fly
into this TFR, which is obviously different than the long standing
VFR-restrictive TFR in place the past five years or so.

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Peter