Balloon cops
As they are more commonly known the FAA, and their enforcement arm - the USAF
You need a license. And yes the balloon cops (FAA) will be all over your ass in no time.
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Good thing we took that training course eh Sarge?
Bake 'em away toys!
You don’t need a license to fly a gyrocopter, but you do need to file flight plans in advance.
Depends on if you’re a Chinese balloon… in which case… have fun eating AIM-9X Sidewinder missiles fired from a U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor lol.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Chinese_balloon_incident
https://www.faa.gov/aircraft/air_cert/design_approvals/balloons
Can’t believe it was a year ago
Launch hundreds of dummy balloons to waste tens of millions of dollars of the USAF’s money.
Those are deadly, you don’t want to pop them
Actually … You do
I’m not sure about lighter than air craft, but in the US you don’t need a license to fly microlight aircraft, as long as it’s less than 250 pounds and has less than a 5 gallon fuel tank, iirc
Well… Ya don’t.
But you do need a pilot certificate.
The FAA might have something to say about it.
The FAA has nothing to say in my country, they won’t stop me from balloning around
Any country with controlled airspace will have some initialism brigade with something to say about it.
F22s are very fond of balloons
FAA is going to have some choice words (and fines) for you if you fly where you shouldn’t
FAA will happily send a Blackhawk to intercept you.
For extra fun you should fly into military airspace and see what happens then.
They shoot those things down with $1.5M anti balloon missiles for sport. Our tax dollars ain’t gonna spend themselves.
All fun and games until Officer Fulton calls in a skyhook
Officer I’m pretty sure I saw him eating rice with chopsticks and wearing one of those funny Chinaman hats
I guess a bb wouldnt do much huh
Pull over!
The FAA doesn’t issue licenses, but a pilot certificate is required for the balloon pictured.
They’ll just wait til you land and arrest you. That happened to the guy that strapped a bunch of balloons to a lawn chair one time.
