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The odds were not really in our favour for a Gordon Bennett training flight last week – but we did it nevertheless. As the new gas balloon of the Ballonsportgruppe Stuttgart e.V. is not yet registered, the Freiballonverein Augsburg was friendly enough to charter us their D-OFVA – a huge thankyou for that guys! :-) [...]
Another lovely autumn weekend lies behind us, and we’re enjoying this season to the fullest! =) Saturday brought a wonderful flight from Eglofs to Seeg with friends – thank you Bavaria Ballonfahrten for the balloon, Ballonfreunde Allgäu for the launch site, Daniela for the organisation and Christian for a perfect retrieve! ;-) [...]
Yesterday, our friends from GT Ballonfahrten visited us to pick up their new basket from Kubicek Balloons Deutschland and to do a proficiency check flight for their pilots with their all new Gasometer Pforzheim balloon. The scenery couldn’t have been better…! :-) [...]
On Friday, October 4th, it was time for the first Alpine Crossing of the season! Wonderful warm weather, a nice direction and perfect ATC made it a fantastic opening for the 19/20 winter. A very special moment for me was when we fly over the lovely Val Sarentino between Vipiteno and Bolzano: Having spent many [...]
This year, the International GermanCup at Pforzheim for the first time was held together with the German National Championship. Hopes were high, as the last edition of the event back in 2017 had just been fantastic, but the weather obviously had a different opinion about it. Strong winds and rain showers made us skip most [...]
On our way home from the welcome-back-party of the Coupe Aéronautique Gordon Bennett, we dropped by at the 30th club anniversary of the Ballonsportgruppe Horb am Neckar e.V., the organizers of the famous Horber Neckar-Balloncup, to have a nice evening flight with friends. Thank you for your great hospitality guys! ;-) [...]
After our fantastic participation at the Coupe Aéronautique Gordon Bennett 2018 in Bern, Switzerland, we decided to pause for one year and not qualify for 2019. However, we couldn’t resist the offer to support three teams from the ground again, just as we had done in 2016 and 2017. So, we booked an Airbnb at [...]