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.