Icebound,
Today we had four traffic airplanes and two news helicopters in the same
vicinity. The controller just called all of our call signs and told us
to watch out for each other. Basically if the other aircraft is not at
our altitude we don't worry about it.
We are in an area most of the time that has so few aircraft, maybe a
dozen max that the controller lets us take care of ourselves.
Michelle

Icebound wrote:

"Michelle P" wrote in message
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Ok now that I have your attention..... I fly one of those aircraft as
well. I fly Traffic survey over the skies of Washington DC.
Always one our toes below 1300 is too low and above 1500 puts us in the
Class B most of the time. ...



In the database of NASA forms ( https://www.nasdac.faa.gov/ ) there is at
least one complaint that such low-flyers are common in the DC ADIZ and often
interfere with local airports' traffic patterns.

There is some interesting reading there. There are about 100 records for
2004, devoted strictly to the DC ADIZ... everything from NMACs and gear-up
landings due to ADIZ distractions, to inadvertent penetrations because of
slow controller response or outright controller errors, to outright mistaken
identity by investigators (one guy claimed to be working in his medical
practice, at the moment he was supposedly squawking 1200 through the ADIZ).