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…