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real media. much now on youtube, the touch the ballooning is not just a spectacle. it's a serious sport. and re, to bet says greatest passion. yeah, that's, that's incredible. and you can feel the com. that's an order from up here. so it gives me such a secure vision that everything will be okay. that's when it gets paid on it. that's why i definitely said after that, re tibbetts is hungary best female pilots and she'll be completing this as well. championships in her home country re to into team is setting a difficult course against competitors from wealthy nations, as i can mean. that's all about pushing my limits, requisition a

we to best doesn't hide a passion for hot tabulating 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 it's actually the place 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 mean, 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 said good men and women will compete in the same category. but there are far fewer women, pilots and hoss had ballooning with many choosing. somebody likes the sports, but rita says she chose bags. instead of fortunately,

i included the family. sometimes we went hang gliding with the 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 when i go with the new hampshire disposition, i just feel that she has to do, which is one of them is also training to become a pilot. you can't take coffee, the whole tabulated alone. you need to team 3 to is assisted by have pot. now your chef who also has piloting experience yourself, helps with the technique measuring the wind and driving between target some of 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 or she has an improve. i organize the finances, try to bring the money in while she flies ish. we spend it on a common hobby, essentially, but it's also not a federal standing up in study. you have reached this home. life is connected to

what's happening and it's not just hard to to that proves that she and your jeff 1st met to us in events, you know, with i met my ex husband at a hot air balloon competition. after 20 years we went our separate ways, both continued ballooning. we had met jo 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 it or not. i think it's like a disease and infection this flight that leaves people together. and we think that are in the same way of doing that, but it can be shipped and do that to them to team is nothing off fuels so need ideal conditions to take of some wind is needed too much is no good. every takeoff is preceded by intense preparations for the good. now we for 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 me. was eager from now the burner test. the physical for this 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. your show back, i do, sir. is she a basic cape effect? often loving in 4000 cubic meters of hotel re to is ready for take of everything goes smoothly and a few minutes late to the news is in the, at the and we didn't have a fear of heights, but i don't fill it in the list from the uh, everything seems different as

a sense of calm, but only because we to has things under control. she checks the wind data on the map on her tablets. ballooning isn't cheap. a single flight cost small than $500.00 heroes. sorry after them. unfortunately for our own enjoyment, we can rarely afford to fly because it's expensive until we have a sponsor and we can't afford to do it regularly. so we really only fly competitive way. if we have passengers. let's say the racing takes the money. the passengers can make some of that back. but at 900 meters, it's no soul about money. anytime 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. that's quite different from down there, i guess management center. in 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 accounting for a test drive. they begin to take off in the middle of the city from a football page, as they inflate the balloon low close watch. with the interest rates, this balloon arrives safely at the agreed spelled 5 kilometers away. the team has done well. maybe it's a new team and we needed to prepare for the world. the cottonwood we delayed take off until the last minute, but there wasn't much time to talk through the tasking with connecting. we managed windows is 5 in the morning of the big day, the world championship begins a 130 of the world's best pilots gathered for the briefing. the weather is over the cost and the teams of waiting for the latest wednesday to finally the pilots get ready for the situation remains on something about if the flight was free, i go back to bed. the teams begin to gather,

waiting for the race judge's 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 meters per 2nd wind soon. that's just a part of it. the ones that is dressed 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 world in a $120.00 balloons take off the pilot. so supported by the 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 wealthy, 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 to obviously, if you want to with incense and measurement that is very accurate, you can use 10 to 15 of those. got just to get an accurate reading, quantity of that helps a lot less packing. we use 3 prob don't they use 15 percent of? it's just a question of money to fix. good, hesitant, well says the name of one of the tasks they have to perform in the yeah. the balloons to race, the maneuver and perform challenges. some of them involve serving a mock up from the balloon at target, so in 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 to that performance each day and the pilot with the make it points with well,

so it looks nice. the weather conditions proved tricky in this boat to climate change is having an impact and that's not on 1000 feet. the wind stopped completely . and so we didn't expect it to be that strong on the ground, better 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 have become much more unpredictable academy regardless of the weather, the competition requires a lot of background work. not certainly from the pilots, but also from that teams. the balloons, the heated with gas, which has to be refilled off to each client. the capabilities differ teams from western europe, north america or asia often have new and like to equipment and largest teams. reach his team is smaller that might to you. she's assisted by shorter who is just about to go to university. they are one of the few female pilots,

co pilot pass 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 been doing so that recheck and keep an eye on the instrument. well, i mean, because it's always the low up and doing 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 and things like that. we. 2 after a quick sleep back to the race, another doing another briefing, the team smelt to get ready in 6 folk as it lists the balloons can take off. even in the add, the balloons almost touch. after a difficult stopped, 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 me when you is then and then the other is the senate smoothly. it was,

but then the wind pushes you out in the wrong direction. it doesn't help, but maybe my balloon has a different shape like where i don't need it so much. and because i'm trying to take care of it and then we get you on that, or maybe it's just bad luck. i don't know what she felt. 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 will have the number to? i'm not happy with my result. that's for sure. it was an easy flying between so many balloons, nor with my beloved. it required a lot of going up and down very quickly. it was difficult to track so many balloons at once. sort of forget 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 validated, so that's not a bad result. manual setup man. all the world championship is over,

this sport remains an important part of reaches life. hotel, ballooning is no, certainly an unpredictable spot that always brings has something surprising. it's a passion that connects with 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 strictly a for example, if the women's world championships are held there, i've been to america, japan and ballooning is what got me there. despite the financial implications through how tabulating rita can explode the wealth from new heights, the, the 77 percent of the world to be shown, causing a disadvantage. a 140 years ago, africa was carved up at the berlin conference, dividing people's destroying relics,

and plundering cultures. i was actually quite shocked the terms in the i was just a completely independent young africans are looking back. and there are still a lot of questions. 77 percent next on d, w. i's omega book event today. welcome to the show, i am your host, ok to english level coming up on the show intends on here, we need students to feel what they learn about colonial history at school. in kenya, the community a still waiting for the return of a sick with drunk that was stolen by the bridges and the mayor or free tell them you see.