what we're doing now in flying the bloom
once we've taken off and we got
ourselves in the air what we have to do
then is plan our flight so we're looking
to see the area we want to get to where
we can make a safe landing now we do
that by using the wind at different
heights so up higher at the moment we're
going more to the right we're down lower
we're going to the left so we're keeping
it at a level so we're going in the
direction we want to go to and we use
those winds at different heights to
bring us into a safe place to land we
can't control it anywhere else because
basically we go when the winds going so
what we do we put the burner on every
now and again to keep this flying level
so I'll just show you now we'll put a
five-second burn in and that will keep
us flying level
it's perfect so now while we're flying
along we can turn the bloom are using
our turning vents that's the black line
and the green line and that will turn us
left or right as far as the basket is
concerned so that we are facing the way
that we're traveling so we can see Sally
where we are and feel comfortable when
we're in the pilots composition we need
to check our fuel make sure that we're
not running out of fuel so we need to
make sure that we keep checking our up
tanks and keep checking the fuel levels
we've got two burners one on either side
of the blue and they're both fed by
different tanks
I'll just put both on now just to show
that they're both working so that's
on the right one
we also have two types of burner so
we've got the liquid burner which is the
ones I've just used and we've got the
main burner the main burner is more
noisy but it's more powerful so this is
the main burner
a little bit more noisy and what we tend
to do is we fly on the main burner but
when we're anywhere near animals or
anything that we want to you know
obviously not disturb we use the liquid
burner and then that is quieter and it
doesn't disturb the lifestyle one of the
important things when we're flying is we
are cautious about livestock so when
we're flying we're out the countryside
we need to make sure that we're not too
close to animals pigs horses etc so we
don't startle any of them so if you're
always on the watch out to make sure
we're flying if we're flying low that
we're an area that won't disturb those
animals so we control our our fuel to
make sure it feels good
we then fly by using the burners we're
using our navigational ace to see where
we're going so we've got the iPad on
which is actually giving us all the
local maps and then we plan the area
we're going to fly to and where we're
going to land and then we'll talk about
how we're going to bring the balloon
down we can do that if we don't burn we
start going down but also we can let
some air out of the top of the balloon
if we need to if we're going to go down
a little bit quicker
How do people navigate a hot-air balloon to the desired landing site?