A PA32 PHOTO SHOOT PLT ENTERS THE DC ADIZ AFTER BELIEVING THAT HE HAD RECEIVED AN ENTRY CLRNC FROM PCT.

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AFTER SHOOTING 16 SITES (AERIAL PHOTOS) WE CONTACTED POTOMAC APCH JUST E OF MARTINSBURG VOR TO OBTAIN A CLRNC INTO THE ADIZ/CLASS B AIRSPACE. POTOMAC ADVISED THAT WE CONTACT POTOMAC ON 126.1 WE DID THIS AND WERE TOLD TO STANDBY AND REMAIN CLR OF ADIZ. WE CONTINUED TO CLB AND TURNED NORTHEAST. ANOTHER ACFT CONTACTED POTOMAC ON 126.1 AND POTOMAC ADVISED THAT CRAFT SINCE NO FLT PLAN HAD BEEN FILED HE COULD NOT WORK THE CRAFT. I RECONTACTED POTOMAC ON 126.1 AND ADVISED THAT WE DID HAVE A PLAN FILED. AT THAT POINT HE GAVE US A SQUAWK; CLRNC TO CLB TO 4500 FT (WRONG ALT FOR DIRECTION OF FLT; BUT IT WAS HIS IDEA). AND WE WERE TOLD WE WERE CLRED INTO ADIZ/CLASS B. A FEW MINS LATER WE WERE HANDED OFF TO POTOMAC ON 128.7 AT WHICH TIME WE WERE ASKED TO COPY DOWN A PHONE NUMBER TO CALL BECAUSE OF A 'POSSIBLE AIRSPACE VIOLATION.' AT THAT POINT I QUESTIONED OUR CLRNC INTO CLASS B AND THE CTLR ADVISED THAT HE WAS 'RESCINDING' OUR CLRNC AND THAT WE WOULD NEED TO DSND TO 3400 FT AND THEN TO 1500 FT BY FT MEAD TO REMAIN CLR OF CLASS B. WE CONTINUED DIRECT TO ANNAPOLIS AND CONTACTED POTOMAC ON THE GND. MR X WAS VERY NICE; TOLD ME THAT I HAD JOINED OVER 700 PLTS WHO HAD DONE THE SAME THING THIS YEAR; AND THAT BECAUSE OF BACKLOG IT WOULD BE 3-6 MONTHS UNTIL I HEARD FROM ANYONE. I GAVE HIM MY PLT INFO AND ENDED THE CALL. CLASS B AND THE ADIZ OVERLAP ON THE WESTERN EDGE OF WASHINGTON. I MONITORED MY POS CAREFULLY ON MY ARGUS 7000 AND FLEW THE HDGS REQUESTED BY POTOMAC. I BELIEVE WE WERE CLOSE BUT DID NOT PENETRATE UNTIL WE WERE CLRED BY THE FIRST CTLR. WE MAY BE WRONG BUT THERE WERE 3 PLTS ON BOARD AND WE WERE WATCHING CAREFULLY ON THE ARGUS TO BE SURE WE DID NOT DO THIS. FLYING IN THE NORTHERN VA/DC AREA IS TOUGHER THAN EVER  I FEEL SORRY FOR THE PLTS LOCATED THERE. WE TRIED TO DO EVERYTHING THAT WE WERE TOLD  NOT BEING ACCEPTED THE FIRST TIME WE CALLED DIDN'T HELP  WE SHOULD HAVE CONTINUED TO CIRCLE UNTIL THE CLRNC WAS RECEIVED RATHER THAN STARTING TO HEAD BACK TO ANNAPOLIS.