Dear fellow gliding peoples,
On 21/03/2012 4:24 PM, Christopher Mc Donnell wrote:
Having had an academic interest in easements and rights of way for many years I found the link below very interesting.
OK - it morphed into an interesting discussion of alternative power options, (which I was enjoying actually).
However may I raise an issue of glider pilot's rights in a parallel area. Some years ago I was confronted by a friend - a fellow farmer - who lives on the other side of the local village. He was somewhat irate and wanted to know what right a glider pilot had to land on someone's property without their permission (his in this instance - because it _had_ happened), or to even to fly over their property without permission. There _were_ reasons for the second question which I won't detail here.
I was struggling for a solid convincing answer at the time. I actually wrote an article for AG (yes it's that long ago) about this whole outlanding business from a farmer's point of view, but after my previous journalistic efforts which had quite adverse results in one particular instance, I backed off. It was never submitted. Nor did I offer an answer in the article because there didn't appear to be one.
I suggest that the concept of a persons "rights" has strengthened throughout society since that time. So I'll ask it now. Exactly what is our 'right' to fly over someone else's property without their permission, or perhaps more importantly, to land on their property - again without permission - when the wind stops blowing?
regards, TN
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