A hot air balloon fight in the Coachella Valley

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Originally Posted by Feuer Frei!

They bought an 80-acre parcel in 1999, double-fenced it and planted it with thousands of olive trees. When the trees were grown and provided a screen, they started building a compound in the style of a "Moorish fortress castle": two sprawling buildings and a bell tower, surrounded by 24-foot-high walls — four feet thick — with turrets on each corner and a deep moat at the entrance.

Sounds like my retirement home fantasy.

FAA says that other than for landing and taking off, a minimum altitude over sparse population is 500 feet AGL and 500 feet from the edge of the walls.

If the balloons are flying below that they are in violation. If they are flying above that, they are not.