Betfair Community

Home › Chit Chat Forum › Hot Air Ballooning

Switch to Community Classic App Directory

We want to share an important update with our Betfair Community users.

Over the coming months, the Betfair Community platform will be winding down. The final active day for the platform will be December 21st. From December 22nd, users will no longer be able to access the platform.

Your discussions, insights, engagement, and, most importantly, feedback have helped shape the platform and guided innovation. Your feedback continues to be important to us, and we will continue to listen via our dedicated feedback channels, as well as through product testing and innovations.

To share your feedback and experience, visit: https://support.betfair.com/app/home

Chit Chat

Welcome to Live View – Take the tour to learn more

Start Tour

‹ back to topics

There is currently 1 person viewing this thread.

Hot Air Ballooning

saddo

23 Aug 17 16:39

Joined:

Date Joined: 04 Dec 05

| Topic/replies: 56,647 | Blogger: saddo's blog

Anyone been, I'm thinking there may be a lot of last minute postponements due to weather?

Pause • Switch to Standard View Hot Air Ballooning

Report Torquemada • August 23, 2017 4:42 PM BST

Do you mean actual hot air ballooning, or the sexual euphemism?

Report saddo • August 23, 2017 4:44 PM BST

You got me there, just searched for it

Report Latalomne • August 23, 2017 4:44 PM BST

Mate of mine is a commercial balloon pilot who has recently relocated to Italy because of the number of weather postponements in the UK!

I've not flown with him, but I have flown with someone else and thoroughly enjoyed it. Landing was 'interesting', though. The pilot very skillfully put us down in the corner of a park just over a telegraph pole and wires and before a row of big trees began! It was tight!

Report Torquemada • August 23, 2017 4:46 PM BST

I think he was asking about actual hot air ballooning Latalomne!

Report saddo • August 23, 2017 4:47 PM BST

I won't mind a crash landing, it involves the ground. I'm not good with heights though, but I'll give it a go.

Report Latalomne • August 23, 2017 4:52 PM BST

When the burner's not firing, it's incredibly quiet. People shouting up to you from the ground are easily heard, and they love a wave!

Report paulypaul • August 23, 2017 4:59 PM BST

I've been and I'm not especially good with heights but glad I did. We landed on the 18th fairway of a golf club while peple were trying to tee off. Very amusing!

Report saddo • August 23, 2017 5:05 PM BST

Aye, I reckon a sedative will get me through it. Just not sure who to invite if postponement is quite possible. It doesn't matter to me but I don't want to mess with people's days off work. I'm guessing lots of people booked August, expecting good weather.

Report paulypaul • August 23, 2017 5:28 PM BST

Mine got postponed 3 times before I got up and away.

Report saddo • August 23, 2017 5:34 PM BST

I figured two or three quite likely, how much notice of postponement did you get paulypaul, or did you get on site every time?

Report paulypaul • August 23, 2017 6:46 PM BST

It was with Virgin ballooning a fair while back saddo. I'm pretty sure I had to phone a number and there was a message saying yes or no, so no, I only went to the site when it looked a goer!
I was buzzing for hours after! Got some great photos and we flew (by pure luck) over my house, my place of work, my parents' house, my golf club. I called my parents and was waving out of the basket having a chat because we were so low at that point.
When we went very high I was bricking it even though falling out or crashing would be bad when low too! Wear a hat the burners are hot!Landing is awesome too

Report SlippyBlue • August 23, 2017 6:48 PM BST

I wouldn't do it if it were free and a topless Anna Kournikova serving drinks in the basket. I've got hideous vertigo, it's my only fear in life. I stopped skiing because of it, my chink in my armour.