France will shoot down pilots

[flyingaround]

France will shoot down pilots who stay into restricted airspace this weekend.

see: http://users.pandora.be/flyingineurope

[luchtzak]

Flyingaround,

2 things:

- please don't use your Caps Lock when writing a message. BIG is too SHOUTY for this website, for your information I have changed your text,

- can you post the news directly on this website or at least with a direct link towards the article? your article is 2 clicks away and for some users this is 1 click too far.

greetings,

Bart
:rock:

[Avro]

I wouldn't like to fly near a restricted area this weekend in France. I don't think that they would hesitate, because bush is in their country

Chris

[L-1011]

To make things easier, this is the full text :

French officials have said they will shoot down private pilots who stray into restricted airspace during this weekend's 60th anniversary D-Day events in Normandy, the Daily Telegraph reported Monday. At least 16 heads of state and 1 million visitors are expected to attend the ceremonies. The region will be protected by an array of radar installations, AWACs aircraft on patrol, remote-controlled drones, two squadrons of Mirage 2000 fighters, lots of anti-aircraft missiles, 50 military helicopters, 9,000 troops, 10,000 police, at least two aircraft carriers offshore, plus an unknown number of submarines. Our advice: Don't fly in that airspace. Organizers said they are guarding particularly against an al Qaeda attack from the air. Tuesday, the entire country was put on "red alert," the second-highest tier in their terror-alert scale.

8O 8O

And the link to the official paper (it's a pdf)


ciao,
TriStar

[bigjulie]

That is a awful lot of firepower, is it not?
:shoot: :pang:

[William]

it personally think it's rather exagerated ... typically American measures ...