Section 105IAC4-1-2. Operations

   Operations. All operations of balloons, airships, and other lighter-than-air aircraft operating in the State of Indiana shall be in compliance with the Federal Aviation Regulations and the Regulations of the Aeronautics Commission of Indiana.

  All lighter-than-air aircraft shall carry airworthiness certificates, registrations, certificates of inspections, and display the state registration sticker with the airworthiness certificate.

  For purposes of this article, a person, other than a student pilot, shall be deemed to be the pilot-in-command with respect to any period of time during which he is manipulating the controls of a lighter-than-air aircraft or acting as flight instructor on said aircraft. A student pilot shall be deemed to be the pilot-in-command only when he is manipulating the controls of a lighter-than-air aircraft during a solo flight.

  Each pilot-in-command of lighter-than-air aircraft shall assure the following items:

(1) Before beginning a flight, familiarize himself/herself with all available information concerning that flight including weather reports and forecasts.

(2) All flights shall be properly logged in the pilot log book and shall contain information locating initial takeoff and final landing sites, date, time of flight and number of intermediate landings.

(for the purposes of this article, an intermediate landing, shall be any contact of the aircraft with earth or any object thereon).

(3) Minimum fuel required for initial takeoff will be sufficient to allow for an estimated 30 minutes of flight on hot air balloons with airborne heaters.

(4) Maximum flight time will allow for a minimum of 15% usable fuel, by volume, to remain in one tank at the time of final landing.

(5) Before inflation and initial takeoff passengers and crew members shall be instructed as to the appropriate procedures relating to the operation of said aircraft, the retrieval of said aircraft after final landing and the appropriate methods of crowd control to promote the safety of persons and property within the near vicinity of said aircraft.

(Indiana Department of Transportation; 105 IAC 4-1-2; filed Mar 26, 1980, 4:05 p.m.: 3 IR 925; readopted filed Nov 7, 2001, 3:20 p.m.: 25 IR 899; readopted filed Jun 14, 2007, 2:45 p.m.: 20070627-IR-105070237RFA; readopted filed Oct 2, 2013, 11:39 a.m.: 20131030-IR-105130295RFA) NOTE: Transferred from Department of Transportation (100 IAC 4-1-2) to Indiana Department of Transportation (105 IAC 4-1-2) by P.L.112-1989, SECTION 5, effective July 1, 1989.