Kevin Byrne
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213 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 6 Sep
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So it's a it's a call sign, everybody knows what it is.
And there are protocols about the
Yeah.
Yes is the answer.
They can or cannot.
Uh they they they they have a tracking system different than the civil one, but usually the civil one keeps track of them just in case there'd be an intruder, and we're going to have airspace closures in terms of Dunbeg and perhaps Dublin and that kind of thing.
So there will be uh last week, for example, in County Wicklow there was a huge chunk of airspace closed up to three or four thousand feet.
Because of the meeting of the Exactly.
And there were people saying to me, as if I had some control over them, we can't fly the aircraft there, we can't fly.
drones, we can't do the normal social things because the kids are still off school and that kind of thing.
And they were a little bit put out by it.
But look, these things are scheduled in advance, as you've said, and we have to do them, otherwise we uh you compromise security.
Well when Air Force One was in Shannon when I was there many years ago, yes is the answer like that.
There's usually a a closure for thirty minutes and that kind of thing, before and after, and they insist on it.
And of course Secret Service now will tell this the powers that be this is what we have to do, because there are many threats against the current president of the US, as you know.
Indeed, you and I looked at an eight ten Thunderbolt, which still had the cannon in place because it had to balance the aircraft, and I think they had ammunition to balance it as well, wasn't a problem, you know, because they were displaying we'd a whole host of air air forces in, and once it's doing a a non military operation they're entitled to come in.
But what the what the uh rules and regulations say about uh operating on our behalf at our request, I'm not quite sure.
It's a bit of a confusion for me.
Because if the aircraft are to be
Yes, no in that regard I um I understand the Air Corps will have armed aircraft up doing patrols and this is using the PC nines which we saw before.
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