Our Flight
2.7.10… We met an hour before the sun was to rise with the outside temperature 10 degrees with about 6 inches of snow on the ground. We were short on crew, but we did just fine. I took Scott up for his first training flight that was more of an intro flight, though he did get to fly the balloon for about 40 minutes. One other balloon flew for the first time in INDY, which was a new guy to ballooning with Jack as his instructor.
We purposely picked a launch site that would allow us to fly over Morse Lake, which we did and had a great gentle landing on the hard surface of the frozen lake. The folks that were watching us for the warmth of their homes must of thought we were nuts!
We traveled 6.6 miles in 1 hour & 45 minutes, but the last 30 minutes of the flight were very slow with the winds changing directions many times.
We had a great landing in the Westfield High School parking lot. Thanks Bob for crewing alone, no Beth she wouldn’t come out.
New balloon to Indy
