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.
Jeroom
Oh wow. Did you know this or did you ask an AI?
Agreed
Is that Salvatore Ganacci?
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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
We all float down there!
That’s such a cool design, very topical with international politics too.
Robert Fulton has entered the chat.
I wonder if the IR sensor of a sidewinder could get a lock on the heating element of a hot air balloon.
New versions could easily target a hot air balloon.
Breaking: Ban placed on hot air balloons, lethal force authorized on local festivals. Citizens confused.
That seems like overkill
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…
They can definitely encourage you to land.
You DON’T need a license for some types of flight though. Anything under 254 pounds. Ultralights and paragliders. (However that doesn’t mean there’s no rules)
How do they stop you mid flight though
With helicopter mounted machine guns.
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
The FAA are an American organisation that only has jurisdiction in the USA, so no they won’t unless you do it in the USA.
Though that last paragraph does apply in many places outside the US. Sometimes it’s even the US military responding outside of the US (I mean I assume they protect the airspace around their bases, but I guess I’m not really sure what kind of jurisdiction they’d have just because they have a military base).
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.
I crewed for a hot air balloon place in high school. The wind once blew two balloons right over the airport runways. ATC was not happy, but those things go where the wind takes them.
Of course, those were licensed pilots.
Relax my guy
I’m calmly explaining what will happen without any exageration.
F-22s using missiles
What if you’re not Chinese? Checkmate.
Balloon: *pops
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You will have to come down eventually.
I don’t wanna come back down from this cloud.
It’s taken me all this time to find out what I need
- 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?
The Federal Boobie Bureau? They’ve got better stuff to do
Indeed; their hands are full.
Damn I wish I’d used that ahaha
Haven’t they just suffered a major data leak recently?
There was a guy who did this with a lawn chair and helium ballons. Yes, he did get fined by the FAA.
Reaching almost 5000 meters is very impressive, and I love the plan of popping the balloons with a BB-gun to control the descent. I’m almost annoyed that they fined this unique effort.
I wonder what was the plan in case his gun got jammed.
But we stole a balloon!
Yeah, on national free balloon day.
A single monkey with a dart: “I’m aboutta end this man’s whole career”
A single sailor with a harpoon gun: “Tally ho, lads!”
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.
Man, I wish I lived in a country town that’s really into ballooning :(
F-16 and Hawk helicopters:
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