Jay Masino wrote:

This almost makes me think that the Dept of Homeland Defense is very close
to requiring an ADIZ around other metropolitan areas, like DC's.

Of course they want to. If one's goal is security, one wants to secure.
Security is achieved by reducing freedom.

Independantly, any organization wants to assure its survival. More security
bureaucracy means more money - more growth - for the security bureaucracy.

All that aside, the fact that an FSS refused to provide an "update" (I
assume that this meant weather information) to a pilot in the air is a
clear safety-of-flight issue. The operator needs serious retraining (or
removal) before he/she does something else stupid that kills one of us.

- Andrew