What is this art style, it is so creepy. I love it.
Looks like a collage?
Yes, it’s quite liminal isn’t it? Makes me think of old PS2 games.
Agreed
Is that Salvatore Ganacci?
I didn’t know there was a while genre here
For the record, yes you need a pilot’s license to fly a hot air balloon.
And yes the “balloon police” (aka the FAA in the United States) or their equivalent governing body in other countries will stop you, and fine you.
FAA if you’re lucky. If youre unlucky, the baloon police are an F-16 with a sidewinder
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I wonder if the IR sensor of a sidewinder could get a lock on the heating element of a hot air balloon.
I don’t know if they can actually stop you. Especially the first time. But they can definitely find you and fine you. A lot. Like more than tree fiddy.
Yes. They wont kill you and take down your balloon. But you have to come back to land at some point. Then bam! You’re arrested…
I heard in France the balloon police are armed. With BB guns to take down offenders.
1.). Yes you do it’s called a pilots license.
2.). It’s called the FAA and they will find you quick
Violate some air spaces and the military will be coming for you faster than the FAA will.
Yeah, this. FAA does give a fuck. A lot of people fly drones extremely illegally but they’re too small for the FAA to notice or bother with, and most of them can’t get to real dangerous heights anyway. But try flying near an airport and you’ll find out real quick.
I still haven’t figured out if people just aren’t aware that it’s illegal or if they’re just too brazen. I think it’s the former but not really sure.
So, my hilarious stunt with 40 quad-copters tethered to a lawn chair will go off without a hitch?
40 red quad-copters floating in the summer sky
Panic bells, it’s red alert!
from me all the FPV pilots I know don’t have the license, because it’s very difficult to do because they are almost all the same things that a real airplane pilot needs to know,
Also I have seen FPV 6S drones at maximum speed even in densely populated areas always exceeding the legal limit of 120m if they had a license
First of all, the “licensing” is kinda tough, but I wouldn’t call it “very difficult”. You could learn it all in a few days.
Secondly, you don’t need the “license” unless you’re flying commercially. Flying as a hobby has like a page of material to read and like a 5 question test with a few rules to follow, so that’s far from an excuse.
Thirdly, FPV has probably the hardest rules because you literally can’t see the sky so they require you have someone with you to call stuff to you… Which no one fucking does, so FPV is by far the worst offenders.
Also I have seen FPV 6S drones at maximum speed even in densely populated areas always exceeding the legal limit of 120m if they had a license
This type of shit is why the FAA is forcing regulations across the board, including towards manufacturers, to have tracking on who’s flying what and from where, which is going to start butchering the hobbyist communities. This is fucking brain dead and dangerous and people that do this shit are asking for accidents and the reason why we can’t have nice things.
I’m not in the US, I don’t know how FAA operates. In my socially ridiculous country it’s called ENAC and the difficulty is similar to that of a car license in terms of the level of knowledge required, and it’s an infinite bureaucratic stress like any non-mainstream license, only those who do it for work do it.
They will shoot you down with planes if you fly into the airspace of the state. Generally you can get away with it short term as long as you live a reasonable distance away from an airport, military installation, or weather radar.
Otherwise, sort out your estate before fucking around and finding out with the air authorities.
Relax my guy
I’m calmly explaining what will happen without any exageration.
- I don’t need a license to fly this balloon. I do what I want.
- Stupid balloon police chasing my balloon in their stupid police cars.
- Check out this move. I fly out over the sea. Balloon police can’t follow me. I am never seen again
Most countries require a hot air balloon pilot license. Don’t fuck with the FAA. They will ruin your life.
and if the FAA don’t get you, and you are using radios, the FCC might get you. And if the FCC get you, the FAA get you.
Don’t fuck with the FAA. It’s not a fair fight. And we will lose more and more fun things to do as commercial drones take over.
What happened to the FBB?
F-22s using missiles
What if you’re not Chinese? Checkmate.
Balloon: *pops
But we stole a balloon!
Yeah, on national free balloon day.
F-16 and Hawk helicopters:
All balloon cops are bastards
#abcab
My country town is really into ballooning, so there’s always a bunch of balloons flying around here and there, so no one would even notice an extra one floating around, unless you were a dick and flying low.
I remember this time when a hot air Balloon operator, in the area, crashed the balloon into some power lines and 16 people died. Some people had to be identified by dental records. While he was a registered pilot, his company wasn’t registered with the state.
Don’t fuck with Hot Air Ballons people.
'member chinese spy balloon?
And the maniacs shooting at it? First thing I thought of.
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You don’t need a license to fly a hot air ballon.
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Even if I do, who’s going to stop me? Balloon cops?
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