BOP.BAS.120 Carriage of special categories of passengers

Regulation (EU) 2018/395

The pilot-in-command shall ensure that persons requiring special conditions, assistance or devices when carried on board a balloon are carried under conditions that ensure the safety of the balloon and of any persons or property carried therein.

ED Decision 2018/004/R

The pilot-in-command may exclude children or persons with reduced mobility from transportation in a balloon when:

1. their presence may impede:
   1. the crew in their duties;
   2. access to emergency equipment; or
   3. the emergency evacuation of the balloon; or
2. those persons are:
   1. unable to take a proper brace position;
   2. smaller than the inner height of the basket wall; or
   3. unable to understand the passenger briefing.

BOP.BAS.125 Submission of the air traffic service flight plan