Double iPhone status bar pushes app down 20 pixels (40 in Retina)

Hi All,

On a non-retina iPhone the status bar is normally 20 pixels high, but when I enable my phone as a wireless hotspot its height doubles to 40 pixels so that it can display text saying "personal hotspot".

When it does this my AIR app gets pushed down and the bottom 20 rows of pixels are cut off, i.e. aren't displayed.

This, simply stated, looks terrible.

Is this a known bug?

Is there some way I can avoid this?

Douglas