ORIGINAL: rgburrill
ORIGINAL: Sport_Pilot
"At the same time, the law, and the Supreme Court, recognized that a landowner had property rights in the lower reaches of the airspace above their property. The law, in balancing the public interest in using the airspace for air navigation against the landowner's rights, declared that a landowner owns only so much of the airspace above their property as they may reasonably use in connection with their enjoyment of the underlying land. In other words, a person's real property ownership includes a reasonable amount of the airspace above the property. A landowner can't arbitrarily try to prevent aircraft from overflying their land by erecting "spite poles," for example. But, a landowner may make any legitimate use of their property that they want, even if it interferes with aircraft overflying the land."<sup style="white-space: nowrap" sizcache08639037385570287="38 105 56" sizset="false" class="Template-Fact">["</sup>
And this is why other laws and regulations exist. A simple minded, one-sidedinterpretation of this says that if I won a large farm and my enjoyment of that farm includes flying RC planes from an airstrip on that farm and that my enjoyment further means I can fly as high as possible even up to the edge of space with an RC balloon so I can take pictures of my house from near space then I can do it! Right? Simple minded and one-sided!
Afraid not! Above 18,000 or so, the airspace is "positive control" regardless of where you are in the USA.
The Rocketeers flying LARGE rockets in contests do so with the FAA's knowledge and concent. The airspace above such activities is sort of a restricted area.