What’s the law regarding landing paragliders without permission?

[melted welly]

As above.

Does anyone know the law regarding landing these parachute things where the bloke has a wee engine on his back to power it along?

Got a situation where they are very occasionally landing in our fields to visit a bellend, sorry, I mean neighbour. I’ve just let it go in the past, but the recipient of said visitors seems t think that owning a big farmhouse means he has full access to the land as well, which he doesn’t own.

If he was less of a cock, it wouldn’t bother me, but now it does.

the landings are purely social, they aren’t necessary, and given that they can take off again would suggest no mechanical issues.

by knowingly allowing this am I in any admitting liability should someone break an ankle in a tramline or something? And surely t feck they have a duty to ask permission in the first place?

thanks

 

[roscoe erf]

just shoot em

 

[Dry Rot]

Probably just trespass. So maybe a polite letter telling him not to do it because (here insert some excuse) and if he continues you will instruct your solicitor to take appropriate action. A reasonable excuse might be "it's upsetting the horses". "I'm a poet and it interiupts my flow", "I was seducing the dairy maid and your arrival completely put me off my stroke".....

Every owner has the right to the peaceful enjoyment of his property. You could probably get a court order making him stop. Breach of the order would be a criminal offence. Shooting him would be a criminal offence though you could argue that it is justifiable homicide.

 

[melted welly]

just shoot em

ak-ak or surface to air missile?

 

[melted welly]

Probably just trespass. So maybe a polite letter telling him not to do it because (here insert some excuse) and if he continues you will instruct your solicitor to take appropriate action. A reasonable excuse might be "it's upsetting the horses". "I'm a poet and it interiupts my flow", "I was seducing the dairy maid and your arrival completely put me off my stroke".....

Every owner has the right to the peaceful enjoyment of his property. You could probably get a court order making him stop. Breach of the order would be a criminal offence. Shooting him would be a criminal offence though you could argue that it is justifiable homicide.

Do we have trespass in Scotland?

 

[spin cycle]

just shoot em

and feed em to the pigs

 

[ajcc]

Live and let live, life’s crap if you constantly getting concerned over minor annoyances. Life’s too short to waste time over trivialities. Might be fun to have a go yourself one day. Paragliding that is.
That’s the objective take from a distance!

 

[milkloss]

What's in the field? If it's grass then a couple of strands of electric should do.

ifs it corn, a couple of strands of electric would do

 

[delilah]

Having just discovered the Jack Reacher novels, he is your man. Has a knack of stumbling into random rural disputes and dispensing justice. He will torch the paraglider, set it on autopilot into your neighbours house, break every bone in his body when he runs out ablaze, then tell you to bury him with your JCB. Job done.

 

[spin cycle]

if it's grass a nice ,pulp fed, wilt horn ram

 

[michael N123]

Hammer a few strainers in and pull several lengths of HT wire accross the field in a zig zag fashion

 

[melted welly]

Live and let live, life’s crap if you constantly getting concerned over minor annoyances. Life’s too short to waste time over trivialities. Might be fun to have a go yourself one day. Paragliding that is.
That’s the objective take from a distance!

Well that’s generally my philosophy but I’m fed up of it being a one way street with this chap. I had a lecture about his responsibility “as a landowner” regarding a right of access through the bottom of his huge 1.5ac garden, now blocked .

 

[Cab-over Pete]

This reminds me of a lovely little story.

About 15 years ago we bought my daughter a pair of binoculars for a Christmas stocking filler. Couple of days later she is faffing about with them and we got them focused.

We used to live in a house with a fantastic view from the windows at the back, you could see for miles, so she was having a good look while I was sat reading.

“Oh Dad!! I can see someone gliding down on a parachute!”

“mmmm”

“Yeah! They are dipping and diving around!”

“mmmm” engrossed in my book.

A while later:

“They’re going up now!”

“mmmm.......WHAT? UP!! They can’t be! “

“Yeah, definitely going up!”

Sure enough, I had a look, paraglider going up. Fascinated, she kept looking.

“Dad! He’s stuck in a tree now!!”

Sure enough, legs dangling from a branch. Long story short, I rang the farmer, his wife answered.

“Hi Gilly, bit of a strange one, but there’s a bloke in a parachute stuck in the big oak tree by your pond!”

“How do you know?” Long story.

Luckily the farmer was walking back home along the track that evening (it was nearly dark) and had found him. The bloke was elderly and had no phone. It was forecast -5 that night but actually got colder.

The farmer left him in the tree whilst giving him a boll***ing then went and got the Loadall to rescue him.

Daft old bugger would have been dead by morning if it wasn’t for my daughter.

 

[Mr Mackay]

A mate of mine who belongs to the same music forum I do ,came last summer and flew into one of our uppermost silage fields .
It was a great thing to see but not sure I would want someone uninvited dropping in !!
I dont think there is any chance he could sue you as he shouldn't be on your field with his shyte , but who knows ,the laws an ass at times !

 

[Al R]

This reminds me of a lovely little story.

About 15 years ago we bought my daughter a pair of binoculars for a Christmas stocking filler. Couple of days later she is faffing about with them and we got them focused.

We used to live in a house with a fantastic view from the windows at the back, you could see for miles, so she was having a good look while I was sat reading.

“Oh Dad!! I can see someone gliding down on a parachute!”

“mmmm”

“Yeah! They are dipping and diving around!”

“mmmm” engrossed in my book.

A while later:

“They’re going up now!”

“mmmm.......WHAT? UP!! They can’t be! “

“Yeah, definitely going up!”

Sure enough, I had a look, paraglider going up. Fascinated, she kept looking.

“Dad! He’s stuck in a tree now!!”

Sure enough, legs dangling from a branch. Long story short, I rang the farmer, his wife answered.

“Hi Gilly, bit of a strange one, but there’s a bloke in a parachute stuck in the big oak tree by your pond!”

“How do you know?” Long story.

Luckily the farmer was walking back home along the track that evening (it was nearly dark) and had found him. The bloke was elderly and had no phone. It was forecast -5 that night but actually got colder.

The farmer left him in the tree whilst giving him a boll***ing then went and got the Loadall to rescue him.

Daft old bugger would have been dead by morning if it wasn’t for my daughter.

Moral of the story, keep an eye out for everything
HT wire on a few strainers seems a good suggestion except for the risk of decapitation.

have you thought of subsoiling it crossways?
a few bulls in there ora lot of sheep so they can’t land?

 

[Cab-over Pete]

The wire is a good idea, but you would only need some electric fence wire hooked up to a mains energiser, nothing so strong as to damage the twunt.

 

[spin cycle]

TBF we're not being a lotta help to op

 

[melted welly]

I’m not interested in doing anyone any harm, I don’t know the guys who fly in and I’m sure we’d get on fine in different circumstances.

My issue is the guy who’s organising these visits, giving them the permission to land in our growing crops. He’s a nob, plenty money, not much to do, and has this assumption he can do what he wants on our land but has blocked a right of access through his.

I was hoping someone might have an interest in the hobby and be able to tell me one way or the other what the obligations are on the fliers.

 

[melted welly]

TBF we're not being a lotta help to op

should’ve known better than ask on here I suppose.

 

[Al R]

Czech hedgehog’s?