Federal Aviation Regulations A Practical Application

Our Tale Begins  Balloon Race – Helen to the Sea 2003  Objective to fly from Helen, GA to I-95  Requirements –  Crew  Aircraft  Pilot  Planning –  Support equipment  Crew & Pilot

Support Equipment  2 chase vehicles  Radios & spare batteries  Food & drinks for crew  Spare fuel tanks, Fuel hoses & adaptors  Maps for Georgia & South Carolina  Logbook for position enroute reports  Camera

Our Crew & Pilot

Our Balloon

Our Launch Site

Helen, GA

Helen to the Sea

First Two Legs

First leg

Landing in Anderson, SC

Depart Anderson

Maximum Altitude

First landing: Approached from the North Took on Fuel & Food N

Anderson Radio

Thermal

Landing in Fairfield

View From upwind

Looking Downwind

Access Road

Departing Fairfield Airport

Climbing Fast

Get to Altitude Quickly

Still Climbing

 Magnetic courses  0 – 179 degrees VFR – Odd thousands plus 500’  degrees VFR – Even thousands plus 500’  Applies above 3,000 AGL Below 18,000’MSL Cruising Altitudes 7500’

Third leg

Helen to the Sea

Rescued by my crew

Statistics  Take off at 7:11 AM  Final Landing at 8:16 PM  Flew 225 miles  Chased ??? Miles  Used 146 gallons of fuel  Total flight time 9:46 hrs

Lessons learned  Have crew lay out balloon  Food in basket  Extra pens with lanyards  Map board  Straight Edge  Refueling adaptor in van  2 Cameras