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Old July 10th 07, 03:32 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
RL Anderson
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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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Old July 10th 07, 04:42 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
Larry Dighera
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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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Old July 10th 07, 04:53 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
John Galban
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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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Old July 10th 07, 05:01 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
Dallas
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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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Old July 10th 07, 05:04 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
Gatt
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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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Old July 10th 07, 05:05 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
Larry Dighera
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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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Old July 10th 07, 05:41 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
texasflyer
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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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Old July 10th 07, 05:46 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
Jim Logajan
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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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Old July 10th 07, 05:49 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
Jim Logajan
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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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Old July 10th 07, 05:55 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
texasflyer
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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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