Originally Posted by
pparkes111
is there consensus as to whether ATC is supposed to account for low level helicopter traffic? It seems like ATC would not be responsible for this since military routes are standardized. Someone else said change to 33 was normal procedure.
Was based in DCA for a couple of years. A late change did happen occasionally but generally you’d be given the “circle to land 33” instruction, on initial contact with the tower. Helos transiting the airspace north or southbound along the river, always contacted DCA tower. It’s been a few years, so they may have changed how they do things but that was the SOP 15 years ago.