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Seen this blew in and was hanging on my fence between the pasture and hay field last week. I sent my Grandson down to retrieve it before it ended up somewhere else.
People who send these off need a lesson in what can happen if one of these ends up in a hay bale inside some horses gut. This is not the first time I have found these on my farm. Had one hanging in a tree top for 3 years before it finally fell out last year.

Maybe I'm just being an old grouch...but wonder how they would feel if I sent them some country trash....lol

My Grandson (6 yrs. old) did think it was pretty neat, and I had to show him on the map where it had came from.
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I've still got one of those rolled up and tucked under the seat of the tractor. I found it in the field while I was raking hay last summer. It would have ended up in a bale of hay for sure. All these 'caring' bleeding hearts letting them go for some cause don't know what they're doing to animals down wind.
 
I get those regularly, usually June and July when the graduation parties are going on. Not as bad as the hot air ballooners that land in the fields, then the chase vehicles drive in, then they all get out and have some champagne before they pack up. "We really appreciate you letting us land here." I didn't "let" you land here, you just landed. I haven't had any for a while now but they used to give me a coupon that said I was entered in a drawing for a $25 bond. Big f....g deal.
 
not good for birds get their feet warped in the ballons same for rice people throw at weddings the birds can't digest it and they starve to death
 
Oh, but it's okay because it carries a religious message.

Frankly these bleeding hearts would send MORE of them if they knew what it was doing to animals. They're the type that think farmers shouldn't exist because they're cruel to animals and destroy the environment, as they drive their full size SUVs home to their giant mansions to enjoy their steak dinners.
 
I had a lot of trouble with the hot air balloons,went and got a No Trespass against them and also filed a complaint with the FAA as they are licensed like airplanes,it put a stop to it.
 
mark me down for a no vote on them. also, those flaming bags , i dont know the correct name, but they light them and they float till the fire goes out, mostly. and kite string in the field, dont care for that either.
 
(quoted from post at 12:31:04 01/30/18) not good for birds get their feet warped in the ballons same for rice people throw at weddings the birds can't digest it and they starve to death
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Virgil, if it makes you rest any easier, the "wedding/rice/bird thing" has been debunked by (apparently) some eminent ornithologists.

ONE less thing to worry about!

(Even advise columnist "Ann Landers" got sucked into this one!)

https://www.snopes.com/critters/crusader/birdrice.asp
 
"same for rice people throw at weddings the birds can't digest it and they starve to death"

That is not true. We even had a big discussion on it a few years ago. Ask any rice grower how many birds eat rice year after year. By your logic there would be no birds left to raid the fields.
 
Then I would suggest you show up there next Sunday and then give them a sermon as to what can happen when they make it into a hay bale. Education is the key.
 
Maybe you guys could all get together after church this Sunday and over coffee and sweet rolls come up with a way to make a hay flavored edible balloon.
Just a thought.
 
> I had a lot of trouble with the hot air balloons,went and got a No Trespass against them and also filed a complaint with the FAA as they are licensed like airplanes,it put a stop to it.

Huh? What constitutes "a lot of trouble"? Did they land on your pasture twice?
 
(quoted from post at 10:27:19 01/30/18) I get those regularly, usually June and July when the graduation parties are going on. Not as bad as the hot air ballooners that land in the fields, then the chase vehicles drive in, then they all get out and have some champagne before they pack up. "We really appreciate you letting us land here." I didn't "let" you land here, you just landed. I haven't had any for a while now but they used to give me a coupon that said I was entered in a drawing for a $25 bond. Big f....g deal.
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Mike you got took! The custom is that they present a bottle of wine to the owner of the property that they land on, and all the ladies in the basket and chase crew give him many kisses. Were you not nice to them? I see them frequently because there are two companies that come out of the next town. Usually they go on by, but sometimes they land.
 
Barnyard, I really doubt that they are trying to be malicious toward anyone or any group.

Just a case of ignorance of the consequences. Probably a Sunday School teacher trying to provide the kids with some entertainment and spread the word to the lost.

I see a lot of other groups that do balloon releases that are not affiliated with anything religious.

The key is education.
 
That is one frustrating thing hiking in the AZ mountains, usually when you get out where it's hikers only, there is rarely any trash, but on most every long hike I find a balloon!
 
Yep! We use to have a hard time dissuading sometimes thousands of blackbirds from destroying our rice crop pretty much every summer.only thing that killed them was a shotgun!
 
Do you mind clarifying your statement, are you saying all people who are practicing Christianity are bleeding hearts?
 
Say what!!!
Birds love rice and digest it just fine.
The birds that I feed prefer brown rice over white.
They always eat the brown rice first,don't know why.
Should do a study on that some day.
 
Seriously its just a baloon. I cannot one has ever hurt a cow or horse or anything else. Just must need something to complain about.

Joe
 
We got a balloon ride for Christmas a couple of years ago. The one shot is of the field we carried Lp tanks to refuel. We left tracks! We killed all of the farmers hay and everyone of his cows starved to death!!!!!!---Tee
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LOL This has Got to be the funniest replies About a Balloon. I have never seen a farmer leave plastic twine laying around, or had junk fly out of the back of his pickup.
Just let one kids mylar balloon land in his field and they go nuts. Never mind the beer bottles or fast food wrappers blowing around the field.
 
(quoted from post at 15:07:00 01/30/18) Seriously its just a baloon. I cannot one has ever hurt a cow or horse or anything else. Just must need something to complain about.

Joe
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Joe,
Maybe visit this website and then come back with another post with your opinion.

O.P.
You should look up the address of that "school" and maybe find their website. From there you will likely find an email address for the administrator.
Then you can send them a note with the link to this website:
https://balloonsblow.org/latex-balloons-still-kill/

Maybe they will decide not to add more perils to some of "God's creatures".
 
Birds also eat grains of sand, chips of rock and other things that do not digest. Why? Because they need it in their gizzard to digest food.
 
Come on down to the city where people don't send off innocuous baloons with harmless messages to their random neighbors.
They just rob and mug and hate and rape and kill them instead.

It seems like a lot of anger or resentment over a small thing to me.
 
A lot more than twice plus they were flying very low over my farm and scaring the cattle,neighbor who is retired FAA said they should stay at least 500 ft above ground he got me the forms to file the complaint on.
 
I was polite, even got a taste of champagne once, but kisses? When they stated their appreciation I would always say 'Well, you could give me a ride some time." Always no answer.
 
(quoted from post at 10:27:19 01/30/18) I get those regularly, usually June and July when the graduation parties are going on. Not as bad as the hot air ballooners that land in the fields, then the chase vehicles drive in, then they all get out and have some champagne before they pack up. "We really appreciate you letting us land here." I didn't "let" you land here, you just landed. I haven't had any for a while now but they used to give me a coupon that said I was entered in a drawing for a $25 bond. Big f....g deal.
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I'm sorry you've had trouble with LTA landings on your property. We are generally very cautious and courteous about recovery. However, not all operators are the same. I instruct our recovery driver to contact the land owner/manager before driving on and if that can't be done, we have a little 110cc scooter that we can use to get to the aircraft and check to make sure we don't do more damage.

Life and safety of the pax is foremost in our efforts, but all pilots have been trained to be polite, and careful when recovering from private property. It's very rare that we are denied permission to drive on, but it has happened. I once had to disassemble the craft until it could all fit on hand cart sections, remove it manually from a fallow field, and put it all in the truck when a landowner refused to allow any motor vehicles on his grazing land. He drove up and down the land on his tractor just glaring at us for 4-5 hours.

The worst story comes from 1993, in upstate Indiana. A 'balloon' with 3 pax in it were coming down in a field, and were shot at by the land owner with a 20Ga shotgun, which pierced the basket, and also put a few holes in the fabric. Thankfully, the fuel tank wasn't hit. So - it cuts both ways.
 
Just thought of something-The neighbor 1 mile north of me has those white silage bags and every time the wind blows out of the North the plastic flies-some gets caught in the fence and some comes on my side. It must not be poison like those little balloons are for I have never seen a dead horse or cow on his side of the fence. Could be he feeds them a potent laxative to keep them cleaned out. Maybe his chopper and baler have a plastic detector like those metal detectors most choppers have.---Tee
 
Hey come on now! I've driven past rice fields and have personally witnessed them exploding in the air when they try to fly away! LOL
 
Years ago I found a conventional balloon that had been released in Chicago by a church group. Made it clear up to central Michigan. Sent it back with a nice note and a map showing where it landed. Never got a reply or a thank you. Kind of soured me on that.

Now days it's those Mylar things which may have come from anywhere. Much more durable than old latex ones. Also don't degrade quickly. Think most of what I'm finding are escapees rather than releases. Birthdays and get wells... Had a Wal-Mart smiley get caught in the fence. My llama took particular offence to it.

Now finding Chinese lanterns. They are probably local releases. Some have messages for those gone to the great beyond. NEWS FLASH! MY FIELDS AIN'T WHERE YOUR LOVED ONES RESIDE. Any way you look at it they are all litter when you find them in your fields. Not welcome in your crops and hay. Not good for animals to ingest.

Don't get me started on fast food, beer and liquor, household cast offs and old tires. All litter I don't need to clean up.
 
I'm sure there must be at least a couple of hundred thousand beef cattle killed every year by those balloons, maybe closer to a million or two million maybe? Well, I guess the balloon is an annoying thing, the message is an extremely annoying thing.
 
I wonder if any of you have ever seen a horse eat a piece of plastic. I have tried to trick a horse into eating a dime. no go. even covered it in molasses. A horse can eat a bale of hay and leave the smallest weed seed behind every time if it's something he don't like.
As for cows and calves, well I have seen 1 die from eating a 12 inch nylon rope about 20 ft long. I had the pleasure of cutting it apart. Had a ball of twine and rope bigger than a basketball in it's gut. we shred 1000's of bales of hay and straw with twine on and you never here of cattle dyeing from the twine they eat. Same goes for all the guys that made hay all these years beside the dump and highways. Just lots of junk to cleanup after the hay is eaten. I know a few farmers that have never cut a twin off a bale and it's a mess but every one to hi own
 
I guess I can thank my lucky stars I have never had the extreme displeasure of finding one. I might get a kick out of it though.

Now on the other hand, and I have fed round bales since the mid seventy's when my Dad bought one of the first Hesston round balers around, there is nothing that absolutely make me more furious than seeing some lazy tail farmer's round bale twine, or worse their net wrap laying along side the road. I mean that is the height of laziness. Then the County mowers go over it and wrap it up in the blades, taking out the bearings on the mower. That plus the pure ugliness of it.

Yes, I suppose a balloon ranks right up there with losing a loved one... Bob
 
I had a cow standing here chewing and drooling one time in extreme distress. The vet ran his hand way back in her cheek and found a crushed aluminum beverage can that had been flattened and rolled up in a bale. If they'll eat one of those and not know it's rolled up in there,you'd better believe they'll ingest a mylar balloon.
 
I was out spraying corn once, If the weather was good we would spray part of the night. This was back when sprayers used foam markers, long before GPS. I pulled into a farm just before dark and was directed to a field out behind the farm. He never took care of his white plastic bale wrap. Little pieces of white wrap all over the field. Impossible to tell where I had sprayed. Got done early that day.
 

+1 for docmirror's comments.

I operate the same way with my balloon flights. Chase crew gets owner permission, have crew check the ground to make sure the retrieval vehicle can get in without damaging anything. I've either flown on if there was an issue or sat for a long periods of time with my passengers waiting for this to get done before we pack up and retreive. A farmer myself, I don't land in growing crops or hay, only pastures, cut fields, yard, parking lots, etc. If you plan your flight right you should know from the wind forecast where you are headed and that their are appropriate landing sites on the far end. Having cows on my farm, I also fly high over livestock and horses to not spook them.

As for giving away bottles of wine, that's a new one to me - haven't seen that here in Missouri or Illinois where I've flown a bunch too. I don't carry alcohol either due to the liability, we use sparkling apple cider. I don't run a ride company, I just fly for fun and do give away rides to neighbors and friends. Many times I even can't fly and give away rides because I can't get enough crew to chase. My standard offer is come crew for me 3 times I'll give you a ride but believe it or not most people turn that down. I also take lots of aerial pictures with my digital SLR when flying and GIVE away the pictures to area farmers too and that is really appreciated. I practice being a good neighbor with my balloon and have a good relationship with my hometown community. Have had a few issues at some balloon events in IL and KY but those are long stories... Mike
 
I guess there ARE more people out there than I thought that think it's ok to litter all over other peoples property. Then get pi$$ed when we farmers won't let them hunt on our land.

I know for a fact my calves will eat the ribbons off a fence post that surveyors leave behind, and know they are just nosey and ornery enough to eat the ribbon and plastic bag that was tied to this balloon, if not the whole thing.

As for plastic twine and net wrap, they will eat that too if given the chance. Seen 'em do it.

Come look at my place and you will not find any of that stuff laying around in my fields or barn lots. Farmers that leave that stuff laying around are just as bad as the people that throw the fast food wrappers out the windows into road ditches. I have no use for those people. So do not preach to me about what's the big deal with this little-itty-bitty balloon. Trash is trash when it ends up in my fields and I don't like it.

And yes I have picked up the shut along the road before I raked and baled the hay many times. It get's old.
 
You and me both. I don't know how many times I've had to chase down calves to pull plastic shopping bags out of their mouths. I know a guy who lost a calf,had it autopsied and it was plugged up with plastic baler twine that he had been careless with.
 
Reminds me of the Andy Griffith show: tracks of '3' men leading off a stolen cow but there were no cow tracks! Lol
 
You were right on.
Someone came up with a recipe for an edible balloon made from gelatin, sugar and cornstarch.
 
Give the church and others the recipe for edible balloons.
YouTube it.
Glad I could solve that problem for you.
I'm making a bacon flavored one.
Yummy!!!

You could make a whole bunch of them and send them up with the recipe attached.
 
Fortunately we live in a zone of prevailing westerly winds or Larry would probably try that. Like the Japanese did in WWII - sending their baloon bombs to the West Coast of the US.
If I lived east of him somewhere I probably Would have to worry about flying squash bombs.
 
> A lot more than twice plus they were flying very low over my farm and scaring the cattle,neighbor who is retired FAA said they should stay at least 500 ft above ground he got me the forms to file the complaint on.

The actual legal requirement (FAR 91.119c) is "...An altitude of 500 feet above the surface, except over open water [b:654c4848f0]or sparsely populated areas[/b:654c4848f0]. In those cases, the aircraft may not be operated closer than 500 feet to any person, vessel, vehicle, or structure." There is no restriction against flying within 500 feet of livestock, even if most folks would agree you shouldn't do it.
 
NO--I would not let him drive his 4-wheeler on the wife's lawn, but if he wants to walk around and look at her flowers neither one of us would care.---Tee
 
What makes you the expert on how many people live in my area? There is a 350 house subdivision within 400 yards of my farm and an airport 3 miles away several thousand people live in a 5 mile radius,large shopping areas within a few miles.Apparently the FAA saw it my way,neighbor that worked for the FAA said they were breaking the rules too.I'm a long ways from any SPARSELY
populated area.
 
Wow! This winter weather is cranking us up a bit. I see a couple balloons in the field every spring but I'm too lazy to get out of the cab to pick them up.

I did have trouble with baler twine one year. The crew that came in to bale big squares was having trouble with their balers, it was at the end of the year and those balers had been running since the previous spring starting in Texas and ending here in Iowa. The baler operators were getting tired of it and they were leaving twine laying in the field wherever they had knotter trouble. This twine was thick stuff, much thicker than small bale twine. I could have filled the back of a pickup with the twine I pulled out of the field cultivator that next spring and the next two springs following. That guy wasn't on my farm again!
 
I found one of those flaming bag/balloons in my field once. The thin paper was mostly decayed however the aluminum rim was still very much in-tacked. I'd hate to run it thru the chopper and feed it to my cows!!!! They could use a light cardboard for the rim!
 
(quoted from post at 12:08:15 01/30/18) Seen this blew in and was hanging on my fence between the pasture and hay field last week. I sent my Grandson down to retrieve it before it ended up somewhere else.
People who send these off need a lesson in what can happen if one of these ends up in a hay bale inside some horses gut. This is not the first time I have found these on my farm. Had one hanging in a tree top for 3 years before it finally fell out last year.

Maybe I'm just being an old grouch...but wonder how they would feel if I sent them some country trash....lol

My Grandson (6 yrs. old) did think it was pretty neat, and I had to show him on the map where it had came from.
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GOSH, growing up in the 60's and 70's in north central ND it was not uncommon to find "radiosondes" and even more common to find clumps of aluminum "chaff" used for radar avoidance in our area that was used as an Air Force practice bombing range.

You'd have probably stroked out!

THANKFULLY, though, you have not mentioned bird-killing wedding rice! AWFUL stuff!
 
(quoted from post at 18:33:21 01/30/18) What makes you the expert on how many people live in my area? There is a 350 house subdivision within 400 yards of my farm and an airport 3 miles away several thousand people live in a 5 mile radius,large shopping areas within a few miles.Apparently the FAA saw it my way,neighbor that worked for the FAA said they were breaking the rules too.I'm a long ways from any SPARSELY
populated area.
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The FAA made us experts on that when we got our comm pilot license. Also, Lighter Than Air ships have special rules that don't relate to fixed wing altitude limits. I don't want to get into a big deal about it, but LTA do 'land scouting' where we descend to a sufficient altitude above the surface to verify safe landing spot. In the opinion of the pilot(who is the ONLY one that matters) that could be 300 feet, or 100 feet, or 30 feet. Basically, we get to drop down, and skim the ground as low as we want, provided we designate the location as a suitable landing spot. Helicopters have similar regs.

Here's a little bonus on LTA aircraft(balloons). Guess where we are NOT supposed to land? Sounds crazy, but it'll make sense once I tell ya. And - no fair answering if you are a pilot!
 
Gotta get some of that before the wedding.
Hate those doves pooping on everything. lol

Just having fun like Bob.
Don't take it to serious.
 
> I'm a long ways from any SPARSELY populated area.

The problem with that argument is that the FAA deliberately does not define "sparsely populated". Rather it's interpreted on a case-by-case basis, and what might be considered densely populated in the case of a Beech 18 buzzing incident might well be considered sparsely populated for a hot-air balloon. You did mention you have cattle, and most folks don't raise cattle in an urban back yard. So what was the FAA's response to your complaint? I imagine the folks down at the FAA got a chuckle out of your report of being buzzed by a balloon.

Before the local balloon operator changed his launch point, balloons used to routinely pass directly over our house, just barely clearing the treetops. Were it not for the intermittent roar of their burners, we would never have noticed them. It never occurred to us to report them for buzzing our house!
 
(quoted from post at 19:55:16 01/30/18)
(quoted from post at 12:08:15 01/30/18) Seen this blew in and was hanging on my fence between the pasture and hay field last week. I sent my Grandson down to retrieve it before it ended up somewhere else.
People who send these off need a lesson in what can happen if one of these ends up in a hay bale inside some horses gut. This is not the first time I have found these on my farm. Had one hanging in a tree top for 3 years before it finally fell out last year.

Maybe I'm just being an old grouch...but wonder how they would feel if I sent them some country trash....lol

My Grandson (6 yrs. old) did think it was pretty neat, and I had to show him on the map where it had came from.
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GOSH, growing up in the 60's and 70's in north central ND it was not uncommon to find "radiosondes" and even more common to find clumps of aluminum "chaff" used for radar avoidance in our area that was used as an Air Force practice bombing range.

You'd have probably stroked out!

THANKFULLY, though, you have not mentioned bird-killing wedding rice! AWFUL stuff!
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I found "Chaff" behind my house in northern NH as a kid. Sonic booms pretty much weekly too.
 
The balloons stopped flying over my place and haven't had any trouble for several years,neighbor said they'll pull their license as the pilots of the balloons are license like airplane pilots.
Also the Commonwealth's Attorney sent the balloon operators a letter telling they'd be charged with tresspassing if they landed on my place again.I wasn't the only one complaining either several farms owned by some rich folks were also having problems.
 
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Never found a ballon for decades then made up for it last year . Two balloons tangled together in the middle of nowhere 42 miles north of Nakina . The other two while deer hunting. Two balloons a couple steps apart . One new and shiny , the other had been there for years .
Is there some way to read the ballon bar codes and obtain some info regarding thier release point or at least the region they were sold in ?
 
I have numerous over the course of the year. Just far enough Northeast of the Dallas Metroplex for the helium to give out and down they come.

Tale of the balloon: Valentines day one year. Local grocery store has a tent out in the parking lot; one stop valentine store. Had everything you needed including balloons such as in the picture and red too. Got off work and went by and filled up with goodies and headed for home, stopping for gas on the way. The wind was blowing pretty good as usual and lo and behold when I opened the door to get out of my truck, out came the balloon and it soared away. Aw shucks. I did tell the wifie I got her one but i lost it on the way. Was forgiven.
 

We get several of these stuck in the fences every year when the wind blows. It's funny at times the way the llamas stand and stare at them blowing around in the wind. Eventually they decide it won't eat them so they go about their business. No issue with them trying to eat it either, not attracted to it.
 
Could explain why the moose were not crossing at the narrows where they usually do. Both these balloons were flip flopping in the brushes about 50 yards away in plain sight .
 
(quoted from post at 09:25:52 01/31/18) .

Never found a ballon for decades then made up for it last year . Two balloons tangled together in the middle of nowhere 42 miles north of Nakina . The other two while deer hunting. Two balloons a couple steps apart . One new and shiny , the other had been there for years .
Is there some way to read the ballon bar codes and obtain some info regarding thier release point or at least the region they were sold in ?
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You can download a barcode reader app to your cell phone.
But the barcode will likely only give you reordering info.
 
Hello, Skyhighballoon. Back during the 'Flood of 93' a hot air balloon shaped like a Mountain Dew? can landed in my side lot. Startled me as they are silent when coming down. Pilot said they'd come from the Iowa State Fair and the wind had changed direction, causing them to go West (had been going North). He said all he could see West of me was water and then Residential (Johnston, IA). Very apologetic, but I told him I didn't mind; anyone that could put that balloon down in a 220'X440' open area had a skill few people had. Both my daughters, 15 and 12 thought it was pretty neat. You balloonists are a unique group of people, IMO.
 
(quoted from post at 06:07:58 01/31/18) The balloons stopped flying over my place and haven't had any trouble for several years,neighbor said they'll pull their license as the pilots of the balloons are license like airplane pilots.
Also the Commonwealth's Attorney sent the balloon operators a letter telling they'd be charged with tresspassing if they landed on my place again.I wasn't the only one complaining either several farms owned by some rich folks were also having problems.
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The process to 'pull' an airman's license is long, complicated, and quite often reversed. I've landed out many times, rarely have met anyone like you who is looking to impose criminal sanctions to one who violates your land. I have heard several cases in the past where an irate landowner has sought to have the license of a LTA pilot revoked. So far - I've never heard a successful case.

The FAA doesn't give a wet, dribbly shilt about property rights. Unless you can show that the action was or could be negatively impacting life or injury to pax or people on the ground they will tell you to go pound sand, and tell the pilot to avoid your land in the future. I'm guessing the county atty can bring some kind action, but it's going to be a misdemeanor, or even a citation. Fee paid, move along, land somewhere else. Maybe you can get a tort action against a balloon landing in your field, but of course that means you need to show actual monetary damages. So - what is the cost of some truck ruts 600 feet from the edge of your land, into the basket, and back out again? $40? $150? $600? Good luck with that.
 
Well what ya could do is call the aspca and get them to come out and make a commercial about the cruelty of these balloons and the conditions it creates for these neglected abused animals conditions so bad we can?t even show them on tv says some overpaid Hollywood actor with fake tears . Buy the way this wasn?t a jab at you but rather the goons at the aspca
 
The FAA made us experts on that when we got our comm pilot license. Also, Lighter Than Air ships have special rules that don't relate to fixed wing altitude limits. I don't want to get into a big deal about it, but LTA do 'land scouting' where we descend to a sufficient altitude above the surface to verify safe landing spot. In the opinion of the pilot(who is the ONLY one that matters) that could be 300 feet, or 100 feet, or 30 feet. Basically, we get to drop down, and skim the ground as low as we want, provided we designate the location as a suitable landing spot. Helicopters have similar regs.

Here's a little bonus on LTA aircraft(balloons). Guess where we are NOT supposed to land? Sounds crazy, but it'll make sense once I tell ya. And - no fair answering if you are a pilot!
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Speaking of hot air balloons..............
Went to a HA event in Kalamazoo/Portage or maybe Battle Creek, MI about 20 ago or so.
The evening competition event to launch from point "A" and land on target downwind was interrupted.
Because one balloon discovered the ground winds were blowing east but if they went up another 500 feet or so, the wind was in the opposite direction.
The ballonist basically ignored the contest and just kept going east then up then west the down to go east again.
They said it was rare enough they would rather ride those winds than do the competition.
 
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