Pilot while under flight following is not sure if he penetrated a class D airspace. Pilot described ...

Narrative:

Departed dts with a clearance and VFR squawk from eglin approach. Instructed to 'remain 1 mile south of the coast until airborne contact with eglin'. At 400 feet and turning west south of the coast; contacted eglin and they verified radar contact. Eglin then proceeded to get very busy and gave multiple instructions to multiple civilian and military aircraft; of which it was not possible to decipher which instructions were for whom. As I am flying along at 1000 feet westbound; I determine that eglin is instructing me to contact hurlburt tower as I am about to penetrate the boundary of hurlburt class D while under positive control from eglin. I am not sure if I established contact with hrt tower before penetrating their class D. Dts absolutely needs a VFR departure procedure which does not require initial contact with eglin (such as 'departure 14'; proceed east on 120 heading or west on heading 210 at or below 1200 MSL until contact with eglin. If unable to establish two-way radio communication proceed...') although dts is presently constructing a control tower; I believe in the absence of a VFR dep procedure; the tower will only create IFR-like flow control for all traffic regardless of VFR/IFR ops.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: Pilot while under flight following is not sure if he penetrated a Class D airspace. Pilot described a possible departure procedure to help with this problem.

Narrative: Departed DTS with a clearance and VFR squawk from Eglin approach. Instructed to 'remain 1 mile south of the coast until airborne contact with Eglin'. At 400 feet and turning west south of the coast; contacted Eglin and they verified radar contact. Eglin then proceeded to get very busy and gave multiple instructions to multiple civilian and military aircraft; of which it was not possible to decipher which instructions were for whom. As I am flying along at 1000 feet westbound; I determine that Eglin is instructing me to contact Hurlburt tower as I am about to penetrate the boundary of Hurlburt class D while under positive control from Eglin. I am not sure if I established contact with HRT tower before penetrating their class D. DTS absolutely needs a VFR departure procedure which does not require initial contact with Eglin (such as 'departure 14'; proceed east on 120 heading or west on heading 210 at or below 1200 MSL until contact with Eglin. If unable to establish two-way radio communication proceed...') although DTS is presently constructing a control tower; I believe in the absence of a VFR dep procedure; the tower will only create IFR-like flow control for all traffic regardless of VFR/IFR ops.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.

Attributes
ACN	1354910
Time
Date	201605
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Place
Locale Reference	HRT.Airport
State Reference	FL
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Light Transport Low Wing 2 Turboprop Eng
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Initial Climb
Flight Plan	None
Person 1
Function	Single Pilot
Qualification	Flight Crew Commercial Flight Crew Flight Instructor Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Multiengine
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 60 Flight Crew Total 14000 Flight Crew Type 4500
Events
Anomaly	ATC Issue All Types Airspace Violation All Types Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Deviation - Procedural Clearance

Pilot while under flight following is not sure if he penetrated a class D airspace. Pilot described a possible departure procedure to help with this problem.