What Licence Does a Hot Air Balloon Pilot Need? Many of our customers ask us, when they come to fly with us: what licence does a hot air balloon pilot need? To fly any aircraft, and a hot air balloon is one, you need a pilot licence. In Europe, Flight Crew Licensing (FCL) licences are …
How Much Does a Hot Air Balloon Weigh? After their hot air balloon flight, many passengers ask us: how much does a hot air balloon weigh? Once the wonder of the flight has sunk in, plenty of questions come up, and we try to answer them through this blog. One of the most common is …
Total take-off weight is the key factor in answering the question: how big is a hot air balloon? Hot air balloons are very large aircraft, in some cases gigantic. To work out how big a balloon needs to be, aeronautical engineers must take into account a number of factors, which we explain below. The volume, …
How Far and How High Can a Hot Air Balloon Fly? Records and Passenger Flights Many of our passengers ask us: how far can a hot air balloon fly? How high can it go?To answer these questions, we need to look at things in context. First of all, passenger hot air balloon flights are carefully …
Can You Steer a Hot Air Balloon? How the Pilot’s Ropes Work Many of our passengers ask us: can a hot air balloon be steered, and what are the ropes the pilot holds for? Hot air balloons are aerostatic aircraft: they are stationary relative to the wind (not relative to the ground). That means a …
