SMA; INBOUND TO AN UNCONTROLLED ARPT; MADE A GO AROUND TO AVOID A HELICOPTER THAT WAS HOVERING OVER THE APCH END OF RWY AT 200'.

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CLRED FROM LBE TO ANP (LEE ARPT) VIA IHD V214 MRB DIRECT BAL DIRECT ANP. RECEIVED ROUTING CHANGE BEFORE MRB TO WESTMINSTER VOR THEN DIRECT BAL DIR ANP. JUST PRIOR TO WESTMINSTER REALIZED THAT ZDC SHOULD HAVE ASSIGNED NEW FREQ. UNABLE TO CONTACT ZDC ON ANY FREQ. CONTACTED BWI APCH. BWI DID NOT APPEAR TO HAVE BEEN EXPECTING ME. THEY HAD TO ESTABLISH MY POS. WHAT HAPPENED TO THE PLAN? WHY SHOULD LOSING COM WITH CENTER HAVE RESULTED IN LOSING THE REST OF THE CLRNC? RECEIVED VECTORS FROM BWI APCH TO ANP. ON LAST HDG OF 130 DEGS TOLD TO RPT ARPT IN SIGHT. SIGHTING ARPT TO RIGHT OF COURSE TURNED SLIGHTLY RIGHT 10 DEGS TOWARDS ARPT. CTLR ASKED HDG. RESPONDED 140 DEGS. TOLD THAT ASSIGNED HDG WAS 130 DEGS AND TO REMAIN CLR OF WASHINGTON TCA. ON AN IFR FLT USING IFR CHARTS; HOW DOES ONE KNOW WHERE WASHINGTON'S TCA IS LOCATED? LNDG AT LEE; MISJUDGED APCH AND ABORTED LNDG EXECUTED GO AROUND. HELI WAS APPROX 200' ABOVE END OF ARPT RWY. HELI APPARENTLY PRACTICING HOVERING AND MANEUVERS AND DEMONSTRATION MANEUVERS WITHIN ARPT AREA. PERHAPS A BETTER PRACTICE WOULD BE TO FIND A SEPARATE PRACTICE AREA AWAY FROM NORMAL ARPT OPS. CALLBACK CONVERSATION WITH RPTR REVEALED THE FOLLOWING: RPTR DID NOT MAKE A FOLLOW UP TELEPHONE CALL TO ASCERTAIN THE DETAILS OF THE LOSS OF COM WITH THE CENTER OR THE REASON WHY BWI DID NOT HAVE FLT PLAN INFO ABOUT HIS FLT. RPTR AGREED THAT HE SHOULD HAVE HELD THE HDG GIVEN BY APCH CTL UNTIL HE RPTED LEE ARPT IN SIGHT. RPTR AND ANALYST AGREED THAT OVER THE APCH END OF A RWY AT AN UNCTLED ARPT WAS NOT A GOOD PLACE FOR THE HELI TO HOVER OR GIVE AUTO ROTATE DEMONSTRATIONS. RPTR STATED THAT HE HAD ANNOUNCED HIS DOWNWIND ENTRY; TURN TO BASE LEG AND TURN TO FINAL ON THE CTAF FREQ. THE HELI PLT WAS EITHER NOT ON FREQ; OR IGNORED THE CALLS.