A RECORD SETTING FLC FAILED TO OPEN THEIR VFR FLT PLAN.

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WE LEFT MIAMI UNDER CTLED AIRSPACE. WE WENT ACROSS THE ADIZ WITH CTL AND DROPPED LOW ON THE DECK. WE DID NOT OPEN OUR FLT PLAN. WE THEN CONTACTED CHERRY POINT APCH AND AT ABOUT 45 MI OFF THE COAST I PASSED THROUGH THE ADIZ. AS THE CTLR GAVE US PERMISSION TO ENTER THE RESTR AREA; HE THEN SAID WE HAD SOME SORT OF PROB AND ASKED US WHERE WE CAME FROM AND WHERE WE WERE GOING. WE TOLD HIM AND WHEN WE ASKED HIM WHAT THE PROB WAS HE SAID HE DID NOT KNOW. WE WERE VERY LOW OVER THE WATER. WHEN WE LEFT MIAMI AIRSPACE; WE LOST COM WITH THE CTLR; SO WE SQUAWKED VFR (1200). WE HAD TOLD MIAMI APCH WHAT WE WERE DOING. SO I AM NOT SURE WHAT THE PROB IS; BUT IT MAY BE THE ADIZ LINE. CALLBACK CONVERSATION WITH RPTR REVEALED THE FOLLOWING INFO: THE RPTRS WERE ON A SUCCESSFUL RECORD SETTING FLT FROM MIA TO FRG. THEY WERE FLYING A BEECH BARON IN NAA CLASS C-1D. THE ACFT OWNER ASKED HIS FO; AN INSTRUCTOR PLT; TO FILE A FLT PLAN WHICH WAS DONE WHILE THE OWNER WAS CONFERRING WITH THE MIA TWR CHIEF ABOUT ROUTING FROM MIA. THE TWR CHIEF SUGGESTED THAT THEY DELAY THEIR DEP AS THERE WAS AN AIRSHOW AT FLL. AFTER THE CONCLUSION OF THE AIRSHOW; THE TWR CHIEF COULD COORDINATE CLRNC THROUGH FLL'S AIRSPACE. THE FO FAILED TO OPEN THE FLT PLAN EVEN THOUGH IT WAS PROPERLY FILED AND THE PROCS WERE FOLLOWED. WHEN THE RPTRS WERE APCHING LAND FALL NEAR NKT; ZDC HAD NO RECORD OF THEIR FLT AS THE FLT PLAN HAD NOT BEEN OPENED. THE IMPLIED THREAT OF 'YOU WILL BE HEARING FROM US' WAS UNNERVING TO THE RPTRS. THE RPTRS HAVE NOT HEARD FROM THE FAA ON THIS. THE OWNER REGRETS THAT HE CHANGED FROM HIS ASSIGNED SQUAWK TO VFR SQUAWK WHILE OUT OF RADIO CONTACT. THE OWNER HAS RECEIVED A CERTIFICATE ATTESTING TO HIS RECORD FROM THE NAA. THE OWNER REGRETS THAT HE HAD TO FLY W AROUND A RESTR AREA THAT COST HIM ABOUT 15 MINS ON HIS RECORD ATTEMPT.