The problem isn’t flying the helicopter in the rain and low ceilings, it’s landing it. In order to land in low visibility or low ceilings you have to have an aiport with an instrument approach available that allows you to get below the cloud deck. The cemetary where this event took place was 60 miles from Paris and I doubt there was a town nearby with a sufficient airport, they were probably planning on landing in a nearby field but with the low cloud deck that wasn’t possible. You can’t just descend through the clouds and see what’s below you when you pop out, it doesn’t work that way.
France is full of muslims, any one of which would love to have a chance to visit Allah and his 72 virgins by taking a crack at Trump. Sufficiently clearing and securing a motorcade route for 60 miles through a foreign country isn’t likely at last minute so the right call was made to have the president stay in a secure location. Quite frankly other countries leader’s security precautions don’t have to rise to the level of the President of the United States. Someone like Justin Trudeau or Angela Merkel is a lot less important and more expendable on the world stage than Trump. They’re also much less of a target.
Thank you for your REASONED response.
No question there are Moslems galore who could be interested in getting at unPC Trump.
I wonder about Frenchies and other Euros, too, but yes, Moslems are the real threat, while the French are in denial.
I still wonder, why not the limo treatment, if the craft can’t get up? Oh well.