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Old 31st Jul 2012, 10:16
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Just out of curiosity I looked up the rules regarding helium-filled balloons. This is the page describing the Dutch rules (courtesy of LVNL, the Dutch NATS). I would assume other countries have more or less the same rules.

Special activities - OPS help desk LVNL (Click on "toy balloons")

So you only need to report your activity and/or seek permission if you are launching more than a 1000 at the same time, in the vicinity of an aerodrome.

So filing an airprox for a single balloon - I don't think anybody is going to act upon it as there's realistically nothing that anybody can do about it.

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