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For now, absolutely. It’s the appeal where all the good stuff has a shot.
He'll lose on appeal as well most likely, as much as he wants to play patriot, this is a legitimate public safety issue for which the courts tend to back governments.
"I'm sorry sir.
We stopped the bleeding, but we have to wait for the ambulance to get through traffic.
Lifeflight is not allowed to land here, unless you first pay the fine & get local & state permission."
except we're not talking about medivac, we're talking about a clown in a helicopter behaving irresponsibly at best
 
I have a yard easily large enough with ample clear space to land a helicopter. If I was wealthy enough to have one I’d land there. I would be far from the first in my area to do so, without threat from a county or state agency. Where I live there are numerous property owners that operate manned aircraft from their land. Some fly tail draggers, some fly ultra lights, some fly parasails, and at least two fly helicopters.

Governments have power and control because people allow them to have it. Few governments ever feel they have enough power and control, and maintain a constant guest to increase their power, usually in the name of “public safety”. The longer the public permits governments to expand their powers the sooner the public will find themselves powerless to manage their own lives. A smart public would start working to reduce government power.
 
I have a yard easily large enough with ample clear space to land a helicopter. If I was wealthy enough to have one I’d land there. I would be far from the first in my area to do so, without threat from a county or state agency. Where I live there are numerous property owners that operate manned aircraft from their land. Some fly tail draggers, some fly ultra lights, some fly parasails, and at least two fly helicopters.

Governments have power and control because people allow them to have it. Few governments ever feel they have enough power and control, and maintain a constant guest to increase their power, usually in the name of “public safety”. The longer the public permits governments to expand their powers the sooner the public will find themselves powerless to manage their own lives. A smart public would start working to reduce government power.
Obviously you don't live in a typical residential neighborhood, context is everything. I definitely would take issue with someone operating a helicopter out of their backyard, I doubt many would want it, I think my home owners insurance company would fall over laughing and cancel my policy. But in the typical residential neighborhood, you'd be an idiot to even consider landing a helicopter in the backyard, or the street for that matter. As rule even medivac goes to the closest open area and they ground transport to it.

I can think of a lot of areas where I'd make a stand before this one, there are laws in this country that are genuinely harming people I'd go to war over first, sounds like an issue that will make lawyers money, and if he wins, they'll just pass a law to close the hole, and now days all they'll do is show ads with helicopter crashes and people will get in line without any actual knowledge of risk.
 
I can think of a lot of areas where I'd make a stand before this one, there are laws in this country that are genuinely harming people I'd go to war over first, sounds like an issue that will make lawyers money, and if he wins, they'll just pass a law to close the hole, and now days all they'll do is show ads with helicopter crashes and people will get in line without any actual knowledge of risk.
hmmmm, drunk drivers and texting have killed more people than helicopters landing in a yard. So lets get rid of booze and cell phones.
 
hmmmm, drunk drivers and texting have killed more people than helicopters landing in a yard. So lets get rid of booze and cell phones.
do a risk assessment of taking off and landing a helicopter in a typical residential yard in a typical residential neighborhood, let us know what you come up with, seriously.

drunk driving and texting are problems because we don't treat the criminals like the sociopaths they are so there's no real consequences.
 
Urban tract houses are certainly not the place for manned aviation activities and don’t have space large enough for a helicopter to fit. In that we agree.

Mountain tops and ledges too small to set a helicopter down are often used to ingress and egress troops or rescue personnel while the aircraft remains in hover so if conditions are otherwise acceptable a small space is not excessively dangerous.

Police helicopters commonly fly only 200’ or so above residential areas during their patrols yet their activity is considered safe?

Far too many “common” things, slip and fall, medical malpractice, accidental poisonings, trees falling on cars and people, etc., kill a very large number of people every year despite tons of regulations.

How much freedom are people willing to give up to gain a false sense of safety?
 
I live in a state full of alcoholic religious hypocrites so I tend to be cynical about what freedom actually is.
 
nope, Iowa, land of socialism, snake handlers and booze, and welfare farming of course
 

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