Hot air balloon landing gifts?

[Sid]

£80 max! What a joke!
If they wish to disturb me out of hours to come deal with a problem they have created . Call out charge of £80
Access to private property £80
Time spend dealing with issue £20 per 15mins or part thereof
Supplying disinfectants for biosecurity £40

Try getting a garage. ..plumber. ..electrician. .etc out of hours and give them a bottle of whiskey or a cheap wine and see what happens!!

Ps.... Can I charge them for looking at my fields while they're up there passing over?

 

[llamedos]

Just contact them and request your land is put on the no fly zone
http://www.bbac.org/contact/National+Landowner+Relations+Officer

 

[penntor]

Depends if it is a commercial operator or private person. Have had bottles of wine off them over the years and did get a free flight out of our own land from a private ballonist a few years ago. Commercial operators should pay full fee, I doubt if they give their passengers discounts or cheap flights so why should they expect us to charge them less than a commercial rate for landing.

 

[deere66]

I posted this on the other thread, Virgin man quite generous in donating to charity, privateers are the ones with the cheap plonk.

Insurance man (NFU) said under no circumstances help to recover the balloon or basket 'cause you won't be insured and if you did any damage then you'd be in the

 

[jackrussell101]

I bet my cheap bottle of wine gift was only probably £4 from Aldi robbing buggers

 

[spikeislander]

Those rates are a disgrace if we all put our farms down as no land zones they would soon have to come up to date.

 

[TheTallGuy]

It was pointed out to me a while back that whilst they are on your property, you are responsible for their H&S so you are at liberty to prevent recovery until a site specific risk assessment and method statement has been produced.

 

[Robigus]

Posted this on several threads on this topic but about ten years ago, when we had so many that they became a nuisance, we - and our neighbours - were charging £75 and they never quibbled, it would be more now.

As above register with the balloon assc and they should stop coming.

 

[Highland Mule]

Never had any land with me, but if it became an issue, I'd be seeking some guidance from airport landing charges, with the following being relevant to my local:

£18.05/tonne of aircraft, plus £16.62 per passenger, plus £6.44 per staff member per 15 minute segment (for 'baggage handling'), plus £35.02 for out of hours.

Which would make £175 + vat, for six passengers.

Of course, if your local airport is Gatwick or Heathrow......

 

[Victor]

Had a glider land in our field the other day my dad pulled him up to the gate where they dismantled it and took it away

 

[betweenthelines]

Bet Tesco or Asda would want more than a few quid if anything landed in their carpark

 

[Andrew K]

Balloons are fine. Just wait till you get a glider land in your field[emoji16]

Had a Red Arrow[Folland gnat] and an Ec135 helicopter over the years, thankfully only pride was hurt.....

 

[GTB]

Never seen one in this area. Maybe too close to the sea, the mountains, windfarms, Aberporth etc ???

 

[Owd Fred]

The best draw I had was when three balloons land in one day, first one had just cleared up and another one landed quarter mile down the fields then the third up by the village, bottle a whisky off each.
On another occasion one was trying to land in a field of wheat just away up behind the house and I shouted at then to land on the old airfield tuther side of the wood, he set his burners going full blast to lift but not soon enough for the wood. he dragged his basket and its occupants across the tree tops and landed on the old airfield.
But the chasing car and trailer drove at twenty miles an hour through the wheat to recover the balloon only to find he had lifted and gone, so he swung wide round in the growing crop and buggered off before I could stop him. Very annoying when the wheat was in ear about July time

 

[spikeislander]

So three bottles of cheap whiskey and half an acre of wheat run down. You would have been better off if they didn't land at all which is not how it should be. If you had got £200 of each one it might have helped the damage

 

[Grassman]

The best draw I had was when three balloons land in one day, first one had just cleared up and another one landed quarter mile down the fields then the third up by the village, bottle a whisky off each.
But the chasing car and trailer drove at twenty miles an hour through the wheat to recover the balloon only to find he had lifted and gone, so he swung wide round in the growing crop and buggered off before I could stop him. Very annoying when the wheat was in ear about July time

You are easily pleased if you are happy with 2 bottles of whisky for that.
Two bottles of whisky plus £200 might be nearer a sensible price!

 

[Owd Fred]

It was twenty or more years ago or more just when the problem had just started, we were not so jenned up as to what a monotonous nuisance they would turn out to be.
I did get very close to driving the tractor tyre onto the flat balloon and stay there until some explanation was given why here,

 

[Gatehouse Farm]

Just contact them and request your land is put on the no fly zone
http://www.bbac.org/contact/National+Landowner+Relations+Officer

Just messaged them

 

[Welsh Farmer]

£500 is what I have changed recently for allowing access to recover a balloon. By the time it has flattened crop or scared stock and then all associated hassle, it's not unreasonable.

.. At £500 a recovery I can see some TFF members shooting them from the skies