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Lance, that's my point exactly. I do fly an S-60 and it IS heavy. Heavy enough that there have been (too many) times where the effort required to go get it on short notice with only one or two people available to load it into the back of a truck or…
Is this a 56K or 65K?
Just so long as that bit of extra weight doesn't keep you from taking it out as much as you'd like because of the hassle-factor. Hopefully, though, it is too small of a difference to have that impact.
I fly in the midwest as well. I prefer morning flights for a number of reasons. There is more steering and generally lower wind speeds. Having said that, there are also a number of negatives to morning flights. The crew issue has been mentioned, (al…
I was told last week by the seller via email that this balloon is sold.
Excellent topic.
Also from the North East, both mornings and evenings can be quite nice and both can also present their own unique challenges.
The plus's with the mornings around here is they are always calm so if you go to the field you are guaran…
I'm a crew person in Kansas - Evening vs morning depends on the day of the week. It's a lot easier for the pilots to get crews on weeknights than weekday mornings. Weekends, however, we seem to have a lot more morning flights. I'd say we're about 50…
Based on your group's pictures and photos, I figured that you guys had quite a few. I did see a decent number of morning flights mixed in too, so I wasn't sure quite how much. Glad to see others are enjoying that time of day!
It seems as though nearly every article or caption I read about any aspect of ballooning in the Balloon Life archives or on here refer to morning flights. I know many climates do not allow for evening flights very often.
In being around ballooning…
Tony, every bit of what you said here is so true. You couldn't have put it any better. I would point out the good points but then it would just be a copy-and-pasting.
Excellently put!
Why are there no spectators?
How long did that end up taking for the people near the back? It must have been hours if you said there were a few hundred tanks...unless there were ten sources to distribute fuel at once.
I would take every opportunity to get some hours in as many makes and sizes as you can, and with different instructors. You will learn something different with each balloon and each instructor. I have hours in Adams, Piccard, Thunder, Raven, Barnes,…
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- Second generation balloon pilot; although still in the "student" phase; fourth in our family (Larry Salters, and Roy and Tom Caton).
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- At 11:41pm on October 9, 2009,
Mike Hernandez said… - Daniel,
You are definitely right about needing more hands for the 90 or your 105! I have had two very good friends who used to come out all the time recently move more than an hour away from me so we are looking to get a couple other people involved to fly the 90 as much as we normally do and go to Rally's with us as well.
The 54 allows us to go out on those days when you may not have those people available and actually, if pressed, my wife and I would inflate it ourselves, fly, land and pack the envelope away and then have a friend drive us back to the launch field where our vehicle would be waiting for us and then go get our stuff.
- At 2:23pm on October 9, 2009,
xxl said…
- do you guys give rides for hire?
- At 12:14am on October 8, 2009,
Mike Hernandez said…
- Daniel,
My wife and I have been looking for a smaller balloon that we can go flying with without having to get more than 1 or 2 people involved to help us. We have it set up where we can put the envelope inside our Nissan Armada and put the basket on a carrier that attaches to the hitch thus eliminating the need to bring our trailer out. I also will fly with my friends and borrow a fan to inflate the 54 and then wait for them to inflate before launching.
This also motivated my wife to begin her flight training as well and my youngest daughter will start after she turns 14 next year.
Mike
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