Airspace Restrictions
Besides efforts to tighten security at GA airports and vet pilots, GA security measures have focused extensively on imposing flight restrictions over various potential terrorist targets. These security-related flight restrictions have been highly contentious because: they have a direct impact on air commerce and the freedom of movement by air; the potential for airspace violations has significant repercussions for both professional and private pilots; surveillance, airspace protection, and enforcement of airspace restrictions can be costly and resource intensive; and these measures are considered by many to be of questionable effectiveness.
Airspace Restrictions Around Washington, DC. While many low-altitude flight restrictions around sensitive locations for reasons of national security have long been in place, the number and scope of these restrictions has expanded significantly since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The most comprehensive of these restricted areas is the airspace around Washington, DC, which consists of a Flight Restricted Zone (FRZ), 15-nautical miles in radius, and a larger area – referred to as the Washington, DC Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ)90 – where flights must adhere to specific flight plans and air traffic communications and surveillance requirements. An FAA proposal91 to make the airspace restrictions around Washington, DC permanent has met with considerable disapproval from pilots and GA advocacy groups who had hoped these restrictions
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