cmoswizard
I hate it when that happens.
I hate it when that happens.
Never argue with a freight train.
“I KNEW it was necessary for a balloon pilot to have a ballon ATP!”
Authorization for Train Pulling?
Since balloon flights are not mandatory, emergency ops, etc. and are entirely fun-filled optional excursions…. how is it that their landing sites are treated as “emergency” landings and somehow acceptable to authorities? If someone decided to go aloft with no particular plan for where to alight … and if the place they alighted was in My Yard and caused damage…. I’d be fairly unlikely to feel kindly about it.
So how is it that these things are allowed to launch with no more control over where they bump back down?
Asking for a friend…
Exactly
What are the odds of an NTSB report including balloon and train in it? I hope the injured have a good recovery.
“Allowed to launch…” Would you propose that an FAA permission be required for EVERY TAKEOFF OF ANY OTHER AIRCRAFT? How about parachutists–THEY may not land on an airport, should THEY have to get FAA permission? Then there are GLIDERS–they often “land out” on fields rather than airports.
As someone that does ALL of the above (in addition to being an FBO operator and a Corporate Pilot on a King Air–I’ve never seen the time it has been a problem–in 59 years and over 28,000 hours as a pilot.
I’ve never understood people’s desire for “more government control”–we fought a war over overzealous government control 246 years ago–not advocating we do that again, just tell the government to “chill” and back off over-regulation.
If you’re reading something in the news, it is by definition a rare event. How many hundreds or thousands of balloon flights happen every month without incident?