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the subscribe. now to dw talking entry, the touch the ballooning is not just a spectacle, it's a serious sport. and re, to bet says greatest passion. yeah, that's, it'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 what it gives me on it. that's why i definitely try to reach a bit is hungary best female pilots and she'll be competing with this. he has world championships in her home country re to into team assessing a difficult course against competitors from wealthy nations. as i can mean that's all about pushing my limits. requisition

are we to bets doesn't hide a passion for heart 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 that's and it became quite a love affair. she's an engineer by profession and teaches mathematics. she's now preparing for her 1st world championships in her country hungry in the city of say good men and women will compete in the same category. but there are far fewer women, pilots, and hoss happening with many choosing. somebody likes the sports that read to says she chose bags instead of fortunately,

i included the family. sometimes we wouldn't hang gliding with the baby in a stroller. i took her to a race with us and the best net watch 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 efficient, i just feel that she has to do 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 pot. now your shift who also has piloting experience usually helps with the technique measuring the wind and driving between target some of the grounds. you know, so i'm going to talk to 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 organized the finances, try to bring the money in while she flies ish. we spend it on a common hobby, essentially, but it also on that whole standing up is that you have reached this home. life is

connected to what's happening and it's not just to to, to that proves that she and your 1st match as an event. in other words, 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. and then it's not like a new 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 lose 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 not enough. you will so need ideal conditions to take of some wind as needed too much is no good. every take off 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 for me 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. i've asked them about one of my racing balloons. is like an opal that competes against jaguar's, 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? off the blowing 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 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 sweet to has things under control. she checks the wind data on the map on her tablets. ballooning isn't cheap. the single flight costs more 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 competitively. 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, i guess it's 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. it's quite different from down there to us in seconds, the preparations to the world championships are already on the way

a day before the official. i think some of the competitors, including rita and 10 mudy recruited team coming for a test drive. they begin to take off in the middle of the city from us football page as they inflate the balloon locals watch with 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 tasking with connecting. we managed windows is 5 in the morning of the big day, the well championship begins a 130 of the world's best pilots. a gathered for the briefing. the weather is over cost and 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, 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. the 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 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 26512944 years. 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 we used to say it's 50 percent talent,

50 percent luck on for solid. 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 wait in the sense of measurement that is very accurate, you can use 10 to 15 of those got just to get an accurate reading quantity of that, that helps a lot. we used 3 prob don't, they use 15 percent? it's just a question of money to pay as good. as hesitant walter says the name of one of the tasks they have to perform in the the balloons done right. that maneuver until the foam challenges. some of them involve serving a mock up from the balloon at target. so on the grounds 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 most points winds will. so it looks nice. the weather conditions

proved tricky in this boat to climate change, just having an impact that we had 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 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 flight. the capabilities differ teams from western europe, north america or asia often have new and liked to equipment and largest teams. reach his team is smaller that might to, she's assisted by charter who is just about to go to university. they are one of the few female pilots co pilot passed the events. shara plans to follow and reach

his foot steps and become a pilot test. so you talked to yesterday and i watched the other been doing so that rita can 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 defend a check, if someone is around, i took the time, i look at the coordinates and things like that. we, i'm off to a quick leap back to the race. another doing another briefing. the team stopped 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 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 record when us then and then the others are sending smoothly. but then the wind pushes you out in

the wrong direction. it doesn't help, and maybe my balloon has a different shape, like where i don't see that so much. and 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 falls in the women's category at the world championships. who will have the numbers? okay, i'm not happy with my result. that's for sure. it was an easy flying between so many balloons. nor with my balloon. it required a lot of going up and down very quickly. it was difficult to track so many balloons at once. sort of figure out. 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 validate, so that's not a bad result. manual setup man. all the while championship is over,

this sport remains an important part of reaches. nice 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, including the 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 is budapest, as beautiful in real life, as it is on instagram,

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