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You know where you take off, when you take off. you never know where you land and when you land. yeah, this is what i understood this morning listening to the pilot briefing — small changes, you know, that wouldn't affect many other leisure activities have such a big impact with the hot—air balloons. yes. but you have to know that every season is different to fly. that's why if you want to be a good pilot, you have to fly every week. otherwise, you are a bad pilot. with some balloons starting to take to the skies, ijoin nick in the basket. oh, wow! and within just a few seconds, we are whi...

The alps, it's a new dimension. a basket in the sky is like a balcony in the sky. it's — it's a dream. it's beautiful. you know where you take off, when you take off. you never know where you land and when you land. yeah, this is what i understood this morning listening to the pilot briefing — small changes, you know, that wouldn't affect many other leisure activities have such a big impact with the hot—air balloons. yes. but you have to know that every season is different to fly. that's why if you want to be a good pilot, you have to fly every week. otherwise, you are a bad pilot. with ...

You land and when you land. yeah, this is what i understood this morning listening to the pilot briefing — small changes, you know, that wouldn't affect many other leisure activities have such a big impact with the hot—air balloons. yes. but you have to know that every season is different to fly. that's why if you want to be a good pilot, you have to fly every week. otherwise, you are a bad pilot. with some balloons starting to take to the skies, ijoin nick in the basket. oh, wow! and within just a few seconds, we are whisked high up into the air. nick, can you tell me what you're doing? i...

Yes. but you have to know that every season is different to fly. that's why if you want to be a good pilot, you have to fly every week. otherwise, you are a bad pilot. with some balloons starting to take to the skies, ijoin nick in the basket. oh, wow! and within just a few seconds, we are whisked high up into the air. nick, can you tell me what you're doing? i mean, there's all sorts of things going on. yeah, so at the moment, all we're doing is keeping the balloon nice and level, so we're putting in little bits of heat every now and again to keep the buoyancy up. uh-huh. so, tell me a little...

It is, yes. yeah, it's not the easiest. but i think that's what attracts most of us here is the challenge, so... the festival began over 40 years ago and has grown from just a few balloons to the 60—plus balloons they have coming today. back when it started, it was the idea of founder charles—andre ramseier. we started ballooning here in �*76 and ballooning in the alps was brand new. nobody was doing it. i'd seen balloons in us but in the alps, it's a new dimension. a basket in the sky is like a balcony in the sky. it's — it's a dream. it's beautiful. you know where you take off, when ...