Unfortunately, we weren't able to give a head's up on this one because of its untrackable nature, but it's here now so it's fair game! It came in around 3:30 and is parked on the A concourse next to their BBJ2 which came in last night. Don't know why it's here, but we can probably assume Cleveland Clinic...and I don't know when it's leaving, but catch it if you can!
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Yes, as far as I know, it's still here...maybe you can get some night shots. The heat haze should fade away soon!
As for why I couldn't say anything, we try to refrain from announcing certain things that aren't public knowledge and can be thought of as "insider information". There are certain times when those of us who work at the airport will know of something coming, or have specific times for things like the arrival of Air Force One that we just can't announce for "security reasons". The Dubai 747 I only heard of from "a little birdie" who heard it from another "little birdie", so I wasn't even sure it was coming, but I did get suspicious when I saw them driving a wide body loader over to the A concourse yesterday!
As a governmental aircraft, it is blocked from all tracking sites and is also considered a "VIP Movement", so even if I had solid information I couldn't have shared it. Sorry! Once it's here, well...you can't hide it so it's fair game!
In the future, I may be able to word things in an ambiguous enough way to give a head's up without giving anything away...we'll see!
I don't know if it's still there or not today...got lucky enough to have the day off again!
And yeah, everyone knows when the POTUS is coming to down, but not the exact hour and sure, anyone can listen to the radios and hear it on approach, etc. , but generally, if something doesn't appear on FlightAware but we know about it, we are supposed to use discretion when posting those things.
The way it was explained to me by Hopkins security was that, in the (extremely) unlikely event something should happen on approach to CLE and they can point to OPShots as the sole source of the information, we would come under some undue scrutiny which personally, I would like to avoid. It's a CYA sort of thing.
I would welcome anything that can be backed up with an outside source, but I don't want the site to be caught with its pants down, so to speak.
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