Reply to post: Re: Legal?

Oz father and son team plan suborbital spaceplane

RobertBrand

Re: Legal?

We are working with Australia's Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) for an exemption and area approval for this flight and to ensure that wer can do this we have to prepared risk mitigation and safety features as well as a complete plan for any eventuality. The exemption will take three months to get through CASA legal and we may still have to do more. We will not be flying as a UAV, but as a sporting model aviation event. We work with CASA all the time and are well known to CASA for our numerous high altitude balloon flights. These number 21 successful flights and recoveries with 19 in Oz and 2 in Croatia. The Croatian ones were hard as we had to avoid mountains, swamps, forests, borders and landmines. We managed to do that with 2 x 3kg balloons carrying almost 20 experiments (10 each). We also were asked to meet with the President of Croatia as these were the first high altitude balloon flights in the country (we do not know about any illegal ones!). Bottom line is that we are going to be legal.

On another note, we cannot find any agency or regulation responsible for limiting the loudness of any sonic boom that we make. We will ensure it is not loud, but there will be at least one sonic boom that may be audible.

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