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A New Lawn Chair Pilot
Folks,
Remember the lawn chair guy in LA? Here is a new one out of Oregon. Here's the link: http://www.komotv.com/news/local/8399237.html Enjoy Rick |
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On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 07:32:04 -0700, RL Anderson
wrote in : http://www.komotv.com/news/local/8399237.html Enjoy I loved it! Thanks. Here's what drew the "pilot" to the sky: Why would Couch try such a flight? "When you're a little kid and you're holding a helium balloon, it has to cross your mind," he told the Bend Bulletin. "When you're laying in the grass on a summer day, and you see the clouds, you wish you could jump on them," he told the Bulletin. "This is as close as you can come to jumping on them. It's just like that." |
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On Jul 10, 7:32 am, RL Anderson wrote:
Folks, Remember the lawn chair guy in LA? Here is a new one out of Oregon. Here's the link: http://www.komotv.com/news/local/8399237.html Bravo! I was wondering when someone was going to try it again. At least this guy didn't try it in the busy airspace of the LA basin. From the pic and his altitude, It doesn't look like he was a hazard to navigation. More power to him. John Galban=====N4BQ (PA28-180) |
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On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 07:32:04 -0700, RL Anderson wrote:
http://www.komotv.com/news/local/8399237.html Does someone trying something like this need a lighter-than-air category free balloon class rating certificate to be legal? -- Dallas |
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"RL Anderson" wrote in message news Folks, Remember the lawn chair guy in LA? Here is a new one out of Oregon. Here's the link: http://www.komotv.com/news/local/8399237.html This is probably the best sentence I'll read all day, (about the previous lawnchair balloonist.): "Walters surprised an airline pilot, who radioed the control tower that he had just passed a guy in a lawn chair with a gun" -c |
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On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 07:32:04 -0700, RL Anderson
wrote in : Remember the lawn chair guy in LA? Here is a new one out of Oregon. Here's the link: http://www.komotv.com/news/local/8399237.html More in-depth coverage and photos he http://ktvz.com/Global/story.asp?S=6759982 "It was beautiful -beautiful," he recalled - peaceful and serene - much like a hot-air balloon ride, but laid-back, not standing up. He'd used a folding-lamp arm to mount the video camera and get panoramic views, but that was one of the things that went up, up and away with the lawn chair and remaining 4-foot balloons. they're offering a $200 reward for the flying lawn chair and items' safe return. But he said a GPS unit Couch did have in his pocket when he landed Still, if the chair and gear are found, likely somewhere in the Wallowas, he'd love to get the seven-plus hours of video Couch shot, with such moments as when he inhaled a bit of the helium to start talking in that funny, Donald Duck way people sometimes jokingly do. |
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On Jul 10, 11:01 am, Dallas wrote:
On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 07:32:04 -0700, RL Anderson wrote: http://www.komotv.com/news/local/8399237.html Does someone trying something like this need a lighter-than-air category free balloon class rating certificate to be legal? He's flying under Part 103 regs, wherein an "unpowered" ultralight aircraft has a max of 155 lbs "dry" weight. Ballast weight is excluded from that 155lbs in the case of a free-balloon type aircraft. |
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Dallas wrote:
On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 07:32:04 -0700, RL Anderson wrote: http://www.komotv.com/news/local/8399237.html Does someone trying something like this need a lighter-than-air category free balloon class rating certificate to be legal? If the whole contraption weighs less than 254 pounds empty (excluding his parachute), then Part 103 applies and no certificate is needed either for the pilot or the craft. |
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RL Anderson wrote:
Remember the lawn chair guy in LA? Here is a new one out of Oregon. Here's the link: http://www.komotv.com/news/local/8399237.html There was a wonderful full-page-width photo and article on this guy in today's issue of the Eugene, Oregon Register-Guard newspaper. Very neat. |
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On Jul 10, 11:46 am, Jim Logajan wrote:
Dallas wrote: On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 07:32:04 -0700, RL Anderson wrote: http://www.komotv.com/news/local/8399237.html Does someone trying something like this need a lighter-than-air category free balloon class rating certificate to be legal? If the whole contraption weighs less than 254 pounds empty (excluding his parachute), then Part 103 applies and no certificate is needed either for the pilot or the craft. The 254 lb limit is for "powered" ultralight aircraft (i.e. airplanes, rotorcraft, airships) that use some kind of motor for forward propulsion. Unpowered ultralight aircraft (gliders, ballons, etc) have to weight under 155 lbs, and any fuel needed onboard to create lift (i.e. propane for a burner) or ballast needed to control buoyancy is not included in that 155 lbs. Believe it or not, there have been a lot more people flying helium balloon lawnchairs (cluster balloons) around than you hear about in the media. See http://www.clusterballoon.org |
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