About 30 years ago I started arguing that anyone landing a hot air balloon in your yard is trespassing. About 25 years ago I realized that I should advertise "balloon landing field services - just $1,000" Today I read this:https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/9gjbxq/mn_someone_landed_their_hot_air_balloon_in_my/ …
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further, my stance is that hot air ballooning is INTENTIONAL trespassing - one initiates the activity with the absolute certainty that one will violate someone else's property rights it's arrogant, and should be illegal Snippety snappety no violate the nappity
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Replying to @MorlockP
Reading that thread (my first exposure to the issue!) it seems your position is not controversial, and may in fact be the law. Pilots obtain permission before landing, and land elsewhere if they don't obtain it. Emergencies are rare, and trespass claims after them are rarer.
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Replying to @random_eddie @MorlockP
... ah, wait, I read your tweet more carefully, and now of course must point out that your position ("ballooning should be illegal") is ridiculous. Pilots can and do consistently obtain permission before landing, thus ballooning is not inherently violative of the NAP.
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Replying to @random_eddie
initiating X where there is a 99% chance that X will result in trespass is bad if we want to talk about some theoretical world where X does not have a 99% chance of tresspass...sure, that theoretical world sounds good
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Replying to @MorlockP
Given that the normal, routine, every-day occurrence is that they ask permission before landing and don't land without permission, I'd say 99% is pretty far off base.
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Replying to @MorlockP
The concept of "ground crews" and their function in, among other things, securing permission from property owners prior to landing is discussed numerous times in the reddit thread you linked to. I don't know one way or the other from my own knowledge, but that seems sensible.
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Replying to @random_eddie
the truth is somewhere between my "99%" and 0%. Much here about how they try not to trespass...but ALSO: http://www.fun-flying.com/landowner-relations.htm … "Since a balloon cannot hover or stop (unless it is on the ground), we must land first and ask permission after the fact. "
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anyway, the topic bores me / I need to work
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