Parts of Slieve Bloom Mountains to become no fly zone in January
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Parts of the Slieve Bloom Mountains will be become a no fly zone for a time in January.
Details have been published by the Irish Aviation Authority of a Temporary Restricted Area in a section of the Slieve Bloom Mountains, from Monday January 11, 2021 to Friday January 15, 2021.
The restriction applies to all aircraft including drones and other unmanned aircraft systems.
The Temporary Restricted Area is being issued as there will be a Military Drone Training Exercise taking place in the mountains between these dates.
The Temporary Restricted Area is to ensure the safety of aircraft participating in the exercises and of other air traffic operating in the area of Clonaslee and Slieve Bloom Mountains.
Parts of Slieve Bloom Mountains to become no fly zone in January for this reason
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Parts of the Slieve Bloom Mountains will be become a no fly zone for a time in January.
Details have been published by the Irish Aviation Authority of a Temporary Restricted Area in a section of the Slieve Bloom Mountains, from Monday January 11, 2021 to Friday January 15, 2021.
The restriction applies to all aircraft including drones and other unmanned aircraft systems.
The Temporary Restricted Area is being issued as there will be a Military Drone Training Exercise taking place in the mountains between these dates.
Slieve Bloom Mountains no-fly zone over Laois and Offaly ordered in January for a military reason
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Parts of the Slieve Bloom Mountains will be become a no fly zone for a time in January.
Details have been published by the Irish Aviation Authority of a Temporary Restricted Area in a section of the Slieve Bloom Mountains, from Monday January 11, 2021 to Friday January 15, 2021.
The restriction applies to all aircraft including drones and other unmanned aircraft systems.
The Temporary Restricted Area is being issued as there will be a Military Drone Training Exercise taking place in the mountains between these dates.
In an end of year commentary, the Coast Guard has highlighted, that despite the impact of Covid-19, 2020 has proven to be a relatively busy year.
Overall, the Coast Guard coordinated 2643 incidents in comparison with 2490 incidents in 2019. Activity over February, March and April was the lowest recorded for each of those months over recent years but noticeably picked up in May with August and September proving to be exceptionally busy.
464 incidents were recorded in August in comparison with 369 for August of 2019 and 307 incidents recorded in September with a corresponding figure of 239 in in 2019.
Coast Guard Director Eugene Clonan said that the key challenge this year was to ensure the 24/7 delivery of Coast Guard SAR services, as coordinated by the three Rescue Coordination Centres in Malin, Valentia and MRCC Dublin and responses delivered primarily by Coast Guard’s own volunteer sector, its contracted Helicopter service, RNLI and Community Inshore Rescue services.