Forty-five nautical miles-about a 15-minute flight in the Piper Meridian I was flying. Night, good VFR weather. How hard should this be? I typically don't fly anywhere around the Washington, D.C., area VFR for fear of violating the complex airspace, especially the special flight rules area (SFRA) around the capital. But this night, as I sat in the run-up area at Martin State Airport northeast of Baltimore, the ground controller was telling me it would be at least a 30-minute wait to get an IFR clearance because of traffic saturation around the three airline airports in the region. What to do?
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