here, so it gives me such a secure vision that everything will be okay. that's what it gives me on a lie. i don't wish that after the retail betz is hungary best female pilots and she'll be competing this as well. championships in her home country re to into team assessing a difficult course against competitors from wealth of nations. is that can mean that's all about pushing my limits, records be sure we to best doesn't high passion for hullstead ballooning as you can tell from her home . and i said, well, someone once tried to count on the balloon items here, but lost count. re to 1st goes into hotel ballooning, so 2 years ago at dice with a friend of mine 1st started talking about hot air ballooning and i said i'd like to try it myself. there was no gps based technology like this to help us. so each

team was assigned an observer to record the results that me and that's how i did my 1st race session. it became quite a love affair. she's an engineer by profession and teaches mathematics. she's now preparing for her 1st well championships in her country hungry in the city of say good men and women will compete in the same category. but there are for a few, a women, pilots, and hoss have learning with many choosing somebody likes the sports that read to says she chose bags instead of fortunately, i included the family with it and sometimes we went hang gliding with a baby in a stroller. i took her to a race with us and the best net watched while my mom's flu or my mom came down to watch her while life lives. and when she was older, my mom would help and take care of schoolwork and i'm sure you're fishing. i just feel that she has to do, which is one of them is also training to become a pilot. you can't take off the whole tabulated alone. you need to team 3 to is assisted by have partners. your shift too also has probably to sing experience us

helps with the technique measuring the wind and driving between target on the grounds. you know, so i'm going to thought you, i think rita, is it, that's a pilot that i am and that's why she should fly while i stay on the ground where she has been improved by organize the finances, try to bring the money in while she flies ish, we spend it on a common hobby, essentially, but at dell sonic that hostile things that he gave me reaches home life is the key connected to what's happening. and it's not just hard to to that proves that she and your 1st match as an event of what i meant. my ex husband at a hot air balloon competition. i'm after 20 years we went our separate ways. but both continued ballooning. we had met and none of us just during that time i asked him to help me out as a team member several times and eventually we got together another sample chat. it's not like any one hop does it,

and the other half of it goes along with their tool. not. i think it's like a disease and infection this flight that lose people together. and we think that are in the same way of us doing that. but it can be shipped and do that to them. to team is not enough. you will send these ideal conditions to take off. some wind is needed too much, is no good. every takeoff is preceded by intense preparations for the good. now always the burner on, we're putting the gas pipes in here behind this cover so that they don't get in the way and so that they don't get stuck on the ego from now. the burner test, the physical for the balloon holds 4000 cubic meters. we bought it 2nd hand in australia and we can carry passengers with it being a vast and while on my racing balloon is like an opal that competes against the jaguars. so it looks good and you can race with it to some extent. but while i'm on the front of it, there are other balloons that can ascend much faster. have your stomach, i do,

sir. is she a basic cape effect? often loving in 4000 cubic meters of hotel re to is ready for the take of everything goes smoothly and a few minutes late to the news. it's in the, at the more than i have a fear of heights, but i don't fill it in the list. from the, uh, everything seems different. there's a sense of calm, but only because retail has things under control. she checks the wind data on the map on tablets. ballooning isn't cheap for a single flight to cost small than $500.00 heroes. sorry, i put them unfortunately for our own enjoyment. we can really afford to fly because it's expensive until we have a sponsor and we can't afford to do it regularly. i'm so different, i guess. so we really only fly competitive way if we have passengers. let's say the racing takes the money in the passengers can make some of that back. but at 900

meters, it's no soul about money funding from. i think it's indescribable, the piece freely when you don't have to heat it. again, looks quite different when you're buying, just like that, compared to a competition where you're concentrating on the task here and you can enjoy the scenery. see what you can see from up there. drive on, that's quite different from down there. i guess management plan to us in the 2nd, the preparations to the world championships are already underway a day before the official. i think some of the competitors, including rita and 10 mudy recruited team like getting for a test draft. they begin the takeoff in the middle of the city from a simple page as they inflate the balloon locals watch with interest rates. this balloon arrives safely at the agreed spelt 5 kilometers away. the team has done well. it's a new team and we needed to prepare for the world, the cottonwood that we delayed take off until the last minute. but there wasn't

much time to talk to task dealing with connecting. how do we manage and windows is 5 in the morning of the big day, the world championship begins a 130 of the world's best pilot sagacity for the briefing. the weather is over the cost on the teams of waiting for the latest wednesday to find the lead. the pilots get ready for the situation remains on something about if the flight was free, i'd go back to bed. the teams begin to gather, waiting for the race judges final decision. but the weather intervenes. the weather is not right for the flight because it's already raining and their strong wind up high, which is set to come down. you will have 10 meter per 2nd wind soon. that's just a part of it. the one to is press 2 in the afternoon and the full cost is good. teams don't to impact. that's so close together that sometimes the balloons of

touching the more than a $120.00 balloons take off the pilot. so supported by data from the ground. the. the data didn't come up quarterly. it's uh 265129. 44 just makes measurements. with balloons and transmits it to the sky. technology is that for everyone as a team from a well see, a country has a better option to collect the data. we also to, we used to say it's 50 percent talent, 50 percent luck on for so you can fly precisely. but the wind might turn in the last 50 to 150 meter. that's what you want. it. obviously if you want to wind sense and measurement that it's very accurate, you can use 10 to 15 of those guy just to get an accurate reading. quantity of that helps a lot. the 2nd we use 3 probes, i don't, they use 15 percent of it's just a question of money to finish. good. positive. well says that name of one of the

tasks they have to perform in the yeah. the balloons don't race, but maneuver and perform challenges. some of them involve serving a mock up from the balloon at target on the ground. they also have to fly into certain areas which are checked by officials using gps data. they have multiple flights during the week, depending on the weather. pilots get points for that performance each day. and the pilot with the most points winds will though it looks nice. the weather conditions proved tricky in this boat to climate change, just having an impact on 1000 feet, the wind stopped completely and so we didn't expect it to be that strong on the ground instead of ship. it was almost stronger than any wind up there. the weather is not changing favorably. very often the wind is still good on the ground level, but it's already stronger at 3 level. it's not favorable and these thunderstorms and so on becoming much more unpredictable academy. regardless of the weather,

the competition requires a lot of background work. no, certainly from the pilots, but also from that teams. the balloons a heated with gas, which has to be refilled off to each flight. the capabilities differ teams from western europe, north america or asia often have new and like to equipments and largest teams, reach his team is smaller that might to, she's assisted by shorter who is just about to go to university. they are one of the few female pilots, the co pilot passed the events. shara plans to follow and reach his foot steps and become a pilot test. so i think dr. young, i mean, i watch the other big ones so that rita can keep an eye on the instrument. well, i mean, because it's always the low up and the one that has priority because you cannot see of course, if someone starts to rise above us, we have to rise to so that they don't hit us. if we want to send a check, if someone is around, i took the time, i look at the coordinates. thanks. i the suite. after

a quick sleep back to the race. another doing another briefing. the teams smelt to get ready in 6 folk as it lift the balloons can take off even in the add, the balloons almost touch. after a difficult stops, everything goes smoothly in the sky and rita has her best day at the world championships. but the winds make navigation tricky once again as on record when you is then and then the other is the send it smoothly. but then the wind pushes you out in the wrong direction. it doesn't help. maybe my balloon has a different shape, like where i don't need it so much because i'm trying to take care of it and then we'll get you on that. or maybe it's just bad luck. i don't know what she for, but i don't feel that deluxe actors working for me yet. to me, as i'm going through the settings of folks to doesn't assemble it was due to the volatile weather conditions. early 5 of the 10 planned flights could take place that the whole event retail finished false in the women's category at the world

championships. who have the number to i'm not happy with my result. that's for sure . it wasn't easy flying between so many balloons, nor with my balloons. it required a lot of going up and down very quickly. it was difficult to track so many balloons, that one's sort of to do. i mean, i can ignore them and not care about what might happen if we crash. but i moved up a 117 places in the world rankings. so that's not a bad result of my mental setup man. all the while championship is over, this sport remains an important part of reaches life. hotel, ballooning is no, certainly an unpredictable sport that always brings has something surprising. it's a passion that connects with her family and friends and a special way of life. inquiry. oh, it's good deposit for a moment to see where you've been, stay, the only make it squarely a. for example, if the women's world championships are held there. i've been new america, japan and ballooning is what got me there. despite the financial implications

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