On Thursday morning, I checked the weather and headed out to Montgomery County Airpark. I had planned on encircling the Washington-Baltimore area Air Defense Identification Zone, taking the long way south of the Patuxent Restricted Areas, of which there are many.
The flight was uneventful, with the exception of a couple of F-16s heading north at my altitude just NE of Salisbury-Wicomico Municipal Airport. They were just close enough for me to be able to identify them.
Total air time was just about 4.4 hours, with fuel stops at
The chart below shows my course in dark blue and my planned route in light blue. As you can see, I took shortcuts wherever I could do so and avoid restricted airspace.
