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About Me:: I'm born in 1981, I'm balloonpilot for hot air balloons since 2000. Since 2003 I fly also gasballoons. the last few years I started to perticitate at competitions in Germeny, Switzerland and some other Europe countries. I do every year about 5 gasballoonflights and 100 hotairballoonflights.
I like longdistanceflights wit hot air and gasballoons. The nicest time to fly is in the winter, than you can cross the alps.... I'm not married, but I have a girlfriend. I'm a gardener and work in a small gardencenter in a small city.

At 10:30pm on July 22nd, 2008, Marty Miller said…: Wow I just looked at the track for the night flight and the last gas one -that's 5 hours in the air! crossing half of switzerland- that's awesome mate! did you start in canton st gallen and landed in Argau?

At 10:06pm on July 22nd, 2008, Marty Miller said…: Hoi stefan, Danke I proberi zu swizer duetch scriba mal. I hoff das ich ca mak de pruffig in da shwiz fur private pilot. oder sonst make fertig mi australish PPL das ich can fliga in da schwitz. ich luga malauf dei website und anruf die lueute:-) merci fur das link. bis spater Martin down under

At 9:19pm on July 20th, 2008, Marty Miller said…: Hi Stefan, Congrats on your win! wow...I wanted to ask you whats available in CH for balloon instructors and whats the private pilot structure there if I'm coming from Australia? is there a swiss balloon Verein?

At 12:17am on May 15th, 2008, Shawn Mackinga said…: Hi Stefan, Congratulations on winning the Nationals! I'm sorry that I could not be there. It was very painful for me to sit here in England during the event. I only managed one (rain) flight during those days. Ouch! Oh well, shit happens... I hope the summer will bring you good weather.
:-) Shawn

At 1:41am on March 11th, 2008, Mark Caviezel said…: Stefan: Thanks in part to your excellent advice, I recently made a BEAUTIFUL flight across the Rocky mountains. If you send me your normal email address, I'd love to share the flight report and pics with you.
- Mark

At 6:49am on December 24th, 2007, Witprächtiger Pascal said…: Hi Stefan, well it was that I randomly found this page and so I signed myself on. Ich hoffe wir können die geplante Sylvesterfahrt machen. Mit besten Grüssen, schöne Weihnachten und wenn wir uns nicht mehr sehen einen guten Rutsch ins 2008... cu Pascal

At 1:14am on December 18th, 2007, Stefan Zeberli said…: It's true that you should cross the ridge minimum 100 meters per 10km/h. Than you'll never have any turbulances. How long will the distance be from take of to the estimated landing place? With witch minimum Speed do you tink to take of for this fligth.
The other thing witch you have to look: If you take of in a valley. the wind shouden't be to strong!
It's doesn't matter if you have 50 knots or 150knots in FL 170. (also possible with 200 knots) But in the lower levels the wind shouldn't be to strong. (That only, when you take of out of a valley) On top of the mountains the wind sould not be more than 20-35 knots. If you take of in the flat aera and climb before the hills than is it no problem to have >than 35knots in the mountain top- level....
I hope you understand what I mean. Sorry I can't speek (write) better English...

At 4:56pm on December 17th, 2007, Mark Caviezel said…: Yes, there is snow in the winter. I have climbed many of those mountains before. I plan to have appropriate gear with me in the event that I am forced to land up in the hills. One question I have is minimum altitude over a ridge line. I have heard 1000 feet over the ridge for every 10 nauts of wind speed. Every time I hear that, the person saying that says it is very conservative. Do you have a recommendation?

At 4:52pm on December 17th, 2007, Mark Caviezel said…: Hello Stefan,
There are many mountains of about 14,000 feet (about 4300 meters), but none over 14,500. I am planning to ascend to about 17,000 feet to clear the peaks and turbulent air or downdrafts that may accompany them. The airspace is all Class G and E, so I don't anticipate any ATC issues. There are flights to good landing areas with winds from 310 degrees to 260 degrees. Distance to the San Luis Valley is about 60 miles. Check this:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&saddr=Lake+City,+CO&daddr=Alamosa,+CO&sll=38.03167,-107.31444&sspn=0.068282,0.160675&ie=UTF8&t=p&z=9&om=1
and it you zoom out you can see that after getting to the San Luis Valley (huge flat area around and north of Alamosa) there is the option to continue flying over the Sangre de Cristos mountains, then the Wet Valley (Westcliffe) east of there, then finally the Wet Mountains and Eastern Colorado.
I have a 90,000 cubic foot balloon and plan to fly it solo for this flight.
- Mark

At 11:12am on December 16th, 2007, Mark Caviezel said…: Stefan:
Hello, I looked through your website, thanks for putting the photos and information up about your alps flights. I am planning a flight over the Rocky mountains of Colorado this winter. Mountain flying is not common in the USA, so I was happy to see your experiences on your website.

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