My first lesson in hot air balloon - 15 feet off the ground in neighborhoods!

[@ryandoe11]

This guy is crazy!! It looks like he has no control at times but he absolutely knows what he is doing, amazing!! Thanks for posting this video!

[@slcfloater9443]

I watched this video, called Kent, bought a balloon, took lessons, got my cert, and now I fly religiously. It’s the funnest, most relaxing way to share a view with a friend or loved one. Thanks Bruno.

[@BrunoVassel]

I love it! Kent is a great guy and I'm thrilled to hear you have taken up flying. Congrats on your new hobby and stay safe!

[@chartphred1]

Great instructor. Amazing illustration of the control they have. You'd want to be very confident, experienced and skilled to fly so close to any neighborhood like that. Do that here in Perth (Western Australia), & you'd end up with the CAA, cops and local TV all over you.

[@bluberrybuddy420]

I have to laugh...this guys is awesome but if I did half of what he did with my drone people would be calling the cops on me!! lol

[@westsideloyalty]

Wow, that is just amazing! I never thought you control a balloon like that. Unbelievable how you hovered through those gardens. There is now one more thing on my lifetime to do list. Thanks Bruno

[@crgonzalez08]

that is so cool, I always thought balloons where boring, but it has its science.

[@theburpman8006]

I rode a balloon in Canada when I was 15 and I got to co pilot the balloon. The scenery was beautiful. We went kayaking, rode on a gondola and cable car, went mountain hiking, went cycling and went whale watching.

[@snafu9204]

I just got my commercial balloon rating in January with Balloon the Rockies flight school in Utah and Kent was one of my instructors down there! He is a great guy, amazing pilot and excellent instructor!

[@slcfloater9443]

SNAFU920 just got my private cert with Kent here in Utah. Life changing

[@davidchunko]

Wow thanks for sharing I enjoyed watching you had a beautiful nice day for hot air ballooning

[@bradarmstrong1656]

Nice video Bruno. Up close and personal. A new mind-broadening experience. Thanks :)

[@rustynail3893]

Wow, just amazing! I never would've thought you could do this kind of stuff in a balloon. I actually LOL'd while you guys were floating over streets and houses! Just imagine someone walking out onto their back porch and seeing this overhead! Thanks for sharing, Bruno!

[@BrunoVassel]

I was waiting for the backyard sun bather to show up but then remembered it was 7:30 in the morning. ;)

[@BlazedOutKing818]

I just moved to New Mexico and damn one thing on my bucket list is to hop on one of these bad boys for he Balloon Fiesta next year (2021)

[@thesportsstreamer537]

Heck yeah. The Balloon fiesta is one of the best times of the year.

[@m0rph3u5.]

Thanks for sharing! I thought making a videogame about air balloons would be easy, but I am learning a lot with each video and this one is very informative, had to add physics to make it more realistic

[@BlackWarriorLures]

Wow! That pilot was good.

[@casaamaril]

Cool Bruno, sometimes a little too close for comfort but nice to ride along

[@gonegliding2966]

So thats what you look like. Nice to put a face to a name.We normally see a white hat and sunglasses from the side. Interesting to see the different control method. Thanks for the ride.

[@fredericborloo1910]

That was amaaazing!! Love your videos! Keep em up!

[@Mike-01234]

Nice video Balloons are so cool last winter I saw one flying over roof tops and it was so big looking I followed it kept dipping down then going back up before I knew it several other cars started to follow with me watching it. The wind was stronger then in this video I guess they got blown into the area. The balloon company truck was following from the ground. I lost track had to break off needed to go home sure looked fun.

[@bentlepa]

Wow,that was an amazing ride ! Must admit I was thinking about the safety aspects of flying so low in a built up area but good fun

[@joblessalex]

Its a 2 mph balloon.

[@Snyper1188]

Excellent video! It answered my questions I had about ballooning. I've been flying since I was little, but never in a hot air balloon!! Great insight into how they operate!

[@ThomasGrillo]

Congrats on the first lesson! Nicely done! :)

[@kelcritcarroll]

Well this is just way too cool! I want to learn to fly!

[@danielcarpenter9396]

Awesome video! That looked way too fun skimming rooftops.

[@MontyWolf]

I've made a couple of flights. I really enjoyed flying low over neighborhoods (carrying on conversations with residents, at a normal speaking voice) and scraping sagebrush as we skimmed over a hillside.

[@JimForeman]

Looks like you had a great balloon ride with a great landing. My one and only ride in one ended on top of a 14 story building in downtown Albuquerque. Got becalmed and the sun shining on the side of the building created a thermal which held us in place. Landed just before we ran out of fuel. It was Sunday and the building was closed, took all day to get down and had to have a helicopter lift the balloon off. I never trusted anything that requires moving parts or an open flame to fly :-)

[@joeya5438]

What flies that does not require moving parts or open flames?

[@JimForeman]

Obviously, from your question, you are not a pilot.

[@joeya5438]

Yeah, i'm not. Could you please fill me in?

[@JimForeman]

They don't make it fly, you can pump them as fast and hard as you like but the airplane won't move an inch.

[@joeya5438]

Jim Foreman You are technically correct but in a real life setting you would not be able to get off the ground much less fly for any length of time without control surfaces, so you can understand my confusion.

[@BunnyR13]

Hot air balloons are sub-zero cool, gotta love the look on your face just after lifting off.... Priceless! I used to make small 6ft tall envelops out of Japanese Tissue with a meth burner as a kid, flew them on still mornings / evenings on 100ft fishing line tethers or in the stairwell of the family home - burner replaced by a hair-dryer - when the wind was blowing, which it seems to do constantly in the UK.

[@ginocavicchioli7559]

Great fun 😎 thanks for posting Bruno 😀

[@gavincrouch]

Very interesting. Also had no idea there could be so much control. I guess wind would play a large role in that though.

[@Rando104854]

Awesome! Great video. Love watching your videos. Thanks for sharing. 👍🏼

[@pixelum2023]

Wow! That's really impressive. I didn't think balloons where allowed to fly so low over a built-up area.

[@donboyer1609]

Good job Kent!

[@Channel60291]

I know 0 about hot air balloons but after watching your video i want to buy one now. Thanks

[@MountainHobbler]

Bruno that is literally my neighborhood! At 12:34 I can clearly see my house by the church, neat!

[@BrunoVassel]

Nice! :)

[@TheRCfunny]

What city is there ?

[@Xantec]

more importantly, can you see the bar?

[@SayHii2Bob]

where is this place all those houses are beautiful

[@angelblue52]

Hot air balloons are just so beautiful and that view is just amazinggg, I could never go on one though cause I’d have wayy too much anxiety being that high in a short basket

[@chadchaumont]

That was unbelievable!

[@abdul_maajid]

Nice video.... felt like a self experience..... What is this beautiful place called?

[@txm100]

Thank you for this awesome video!

[@66tbird1]

Thank you for the ride.

[@joshuajeter347]

66tbird1 where is that Utah??

[@redwhaleage]

Very pretty looking neighbourhood.. not sure how much I'd love a balloon cruising over my backyard at that height tho.. especially if im chilling by the pool in my budgies 😅

[@TheGreatBoppino]

That is so cool!!

[@sibusisosbuda4914]

Wow, this has been my best video on KZbin thanks guys 💕😍

[@kelcritcarroll]

Alot of comments on how you could get in trouble being so low….but I would love a person to fly over my house barely, and say hi….that would just make my whole week!….probably my whole year actually!!!

[@DavidReese2ndA]

What a Cool little trip, You got a lot of attention! And a change from flying, it's kind of like the difference from a Fish and a Jellyfish? Weird right? Lol!

[@tpelton]

love your gliding videos. having said that, i'm surprised by this video. this seems more like a video of a cautionary tale of things not to do in a balloon. stuff like this is why these balloons keep killing people. and further, the distraction to the people driving, when a balloon comes skimming over the roads. i can't believe the FAA even allows that kind of ballooning over populated areas.

[@tpelton]

i had to go look. this document www.faa.gov/documentLibrary/media/Advisory_Circular/ac91-71.pdf seems to be suggesting that the operator should have been no less than 1000' AGL.

[@BrunoVassel]

Interesting. I was just as shocked as you when we went low. I guess I just trusted him that he knew what he was doing - famous last words I know. :) Thanks for watching.

[@mrepicchickenman]

Student hot air balloon pilot here, balloons aren't big killers (as soon as you are in the basket and off the ground, you statistically are safer than you ever will be on the ground). The 1000' AGL thing you are looking at must be night flying or pure misunderstanding. Your point of distraction to the people isn't balloons fault, its the person driving. I also do not understand what the point of "not believing the FAA even allows that kind of ballooning over populated areas." is. Hot air balloon pilots during training have to show their 'teacher' that they can fly at any form of height whether it be 15 feet (usually not a viable option as its common for powerlines to be that low but this setting is an exception) to 2,000 feet, at an even elevation. Given said that, it is rare you find a pilot who is willing to dip down into neighborhoods then go up to get above the treeline/houses. And after saying that, I know this pilot, and he is very good at what he does. He knew the winds weren't more than 1-3 mph and kept a reasonable margin for sudden shift in wind.

[@tpelton]

you might want to consider who you are getting instruction from if you haven't covered these topics. it's common sense really. don't fly low over people and property so you don't have accidents that kill people. simple. rules and regs and sources provided. enjoy. www.faa.gov/documentLibrary/media/Advisory_Circular/ac91-71.pdf 7. MINIMUM ALTITUDES. a. In accordance with 5 91.119, balloons must maintain a safe minimum altitude above the surface and safe minimum distances from obstacles. Section 91.119(b) requires that all aircraft, except when necessary for takeoff and landing, operate over congested areas of cities, towns, or settlements or over open air assemblies of persons at an altitude no lower than 1,000 feet above the highest obstacle within a horizontal radius of 2,000 feet of the aircraft. (See figure 9.) b. Section 91.119(c) requires that all aircraft, except when necessary for takeoff and landing, operate over other than congested areas at an altitude of 500 feet above the surface except over open water or sparsely populated areas. (See figure 10.)

[@mrepicchickenman]

+Tony Pelton alright that is what I saw but I am going with the FAA has a different definition of congested than you. Quite a few balloon events go over cities (not very large ones like Seattle) but like Provo (this video), Boise, and Albuquerque.

[@Kimtwister]

HEY BRUNO this is amazing i actually helped put up a hot air balloon and actually put off the burner and waallllllaaaaaa i was a pro was such an amazing experience

[@holguensphilippe9687]

No parachute no safety woww y’all brave 😅😅😅😅

[@WORRO]

That was a bit nerve racking to me lol.. Thumbs up video!!~John

[@Lizlodude]

8:00 Holy crap I thought he was joking! It's amazing the amount of control he has over a craft that can effectively only control altitude.

[@zerocooljpn]

you can control that thing?

[@Melvorgazh]

Greetings and subscribing from Belgium 😼👍🏻😎 Boss video!

Wow ! this is cool, OMG great experience... What did you feel when you fly a balloon? fear? relax? or... ?

[@starwizardmanonthestarwiza2469]

How far do the balloons go before you have to land them?

[@BlackWarriorLures]

How much fuel do they carry?

[@mrepicchickenman]

25-45 gallons typically, the bigger ones sometimes carry 50-60. This exact one had two 18 gallon tanks

[@starwizardmanonthestarwiza2469]

Do the balloons actually ever have a collision?

[@starwizardmanonthestarwiza2469]

That looks like fun I'd like to take a drone with and fly around it

[@MaxMartini22]

Wow, didn't know balloons can be fun, I thought they are only good to jump out of

[@MaxMartini22]

Quake120 Actually Paraglider ;-)

[@kimzafra]

What is the fire accidentally burn the balloon?

[@tashdog1]

Did you continue and keep up with the lessons regularly?

[@BrunoVassel]

Great question. No - this was my only lesson and flight. Very fun but my other aviation hobbies are good for me for now.

[@tashdog1]

​@BrunoVassel yeah disappointed you are not, thought I was going see me ballooning videos. Your actually flying right now 11:07 no your not flying, your hovering

[@andrewstrange6570]

Just seen the little child in the basket. Seems they are so busy to keep and eye on him/her.

[@brunovassel8417]

Good eye - the good news is that the child was the instructor's grand child and had been on over a dozen balloon rides before. A young/old pro at it. :) Thanks for watching.

[@andrewstrange6570]

@@brunovassel8417 I figured as much. Happy landings.

[@justinorourke6852]

Hi Bruno I am glad you enjoyed your Balloon flight,very big difference from your gliding tour of the Teton Peak , What was your Max Height you went to ? I know your min height a few inches ! Yours Justin

[@BrunoVassel]

We only went up about 1500 feet at our max. Seemed like my instructor was much more interested in showing me how much we could do down low than stay high.

[@XIXMeZoXIX]

holy crap! at 2:00 the blue balloon with the rainbow patterns down the side is an exact twin of my balloon!

[@srafitzpatrick]

MeZoPredatoRGaming mezz.... is that you?

[@williambuchanan2542]

yep…i have a drone too…and you are correct…i think you get a free pass when in a balloon. a drone has a camera. and you cant see who is looking.

[@ginnielacy170]

I love hot-air balloons!

[@derekwilken8181]

I just subscribed and liked your video,Iam from ON Canada & WOW!!! ,it looks like that neighborhood is really friendly waving to other people!!! We have an actual accidental place where the Hotair balloon companies found a really perfect spot in behind a retirement home by a park and they keep on putting up a lot of hotair balloons mostly every summer except this year cause of Covid.2018 my family saw 5 or 6 hotair balloons take off behind the retirement building,it actually is 2 buildings down from my families house,we’ve actually talked to the people in the basket cause they were right beside the house but,the balloon was maybe 20,000 or 30,000 feet,we always take lots of photos!!!! , actually just a week and a half ago,we just saw our local radio station,their blue 96.7 chyme balloon go through fog and disappear,have never experienced that and them go above the clouds,I think if my math is correct,it was about 50,000 to 150,000 feet. My mom,my brother and I want to go in a hotair balloon sometime,Iam not afraid of saying this but,I am scared of really,really huge heights!!!! 😬😬😬🤣🤣🤣 ,just a question,sometime my family wants to travel to the states,can we hook up with you guys,if you guys are still having the balloon festival in 2021?!!!!! 😁😁😁

[@Aviation-kx6wf]

How do they go to the side?

[@EnthusiasticCoder]

silly question but was your balloon being steered or was it going with the wind?

[@mrepicchickenman]

Hot air balloons only steering is using heat to go up or down, the wind takes you everywhere else.

[@EnthusiasticCoder]

Thats extremely scary if you ask me.

[@mrepicchickenman]

Its not scary though? You can clearly see in the video they hit no more than 4 mph and have a lot of up and down maneuverability. Plus, the max you will be going in a balloon is 15, max allowed launch winds is 8 mph.

[@EnthusiasticCoder]

Ok fair enough but what about ballooning in a city full of sky scrapers.... I have seen one video with fun for louis (not promoting anyone:-)) where he was floating around a city center and buildings as tall as can be and them flying around them with city traffic below. I would have been praying hard I tell you.

[@mrepicchickenman]

Ballooning in a city is extremely rare in the US, and even rarer is flying with sky scrapers beside you. That video you are referencing is in Melbourne Australia, not the US. The US has the strictest hot air balloon laws, where this video takes place.

[@Vectorh]

I definitely would not have been comfortable flying as low as that! I think my minimum altitude would be no lower than the height of the highest power lines in the area…

[@pichofiraviyah8492]

such a beautiful town

[@cicci0salsicci0]

One time one of those got stuck into my roof.

[@BrunoVassel]

I can totally see why after that flight.

[@footsy420]

I'm just about to get my glider license and one of the first things I want to do is trade a glider flight for a balloon flight. I live in Banff, AB and fly in Invermere, BC. Any takers?

[@JasonEllisBuilds]

How much fuel do they typically carry?

[@BrunoVassel]

60 gallons of propane which is good for 2 hours air time.

[@XIXMeZoXIX]

uh, not sure where you got 60 gallons, you were close though, most balloon carry two 25 gallon tanks. so about 50 gallons

[@srafitzpatrick]

MeZoPredatoRGaming lay down 25s?

[@XIXMeZoXIX]

+William Fitzpatrick, the only company I know of that ever manufactured lay down tanks was Aerostar. but they pulled out of the hot air balloon industry after the market crash in 2007. they now do weapons and weather balloon research for the military. there are still a few out there but most systems only have one laydown and one vertical tank. not sure how much the lay downs hold, but I don't think any normal system for fun flight carries 60 gallons, 50 at the most, but usually 40.

[@starwizardmanonthestarwiza2469]

Can you rent one of these balloons and then put it on a tether I'd love to look at the view from my house way up in the air.

[@broncojills7084]

Haha the kids on the floor terrified

[@garlandsue46]

Where?

[@lucywucyyy]

thats really cool

[@KJ4CTZ]

About how much fuel was used?

[@raganusmc]

I just took my first nonpowered fight in a Balloon today I had a Blessed. I need a new Certification. Lol

[@lw216316]

It bothers me how short the rim of the basket is. It came up to the neck of the little boy but only to the waist of the adults...the best I could see. I am uncomfortable in high "open spaces " - fear of falling. In airplanes I feel enclosed and safe and enjoy flying in commercial airplanes, small aircraft such as a Cessna 172, and even took my first glider flight recently and enjoyed that. In the glider, sitting on the nose of the plane, when we made a steep bank, it almost seemed as if I was just hanging in space because the view is unobstructed, it took my breath at first but I got used to it. But put me in an high open space and I feel uncomfortable - so I have a feeling I would not like being in a balloon with a basket rim that only came up to my waist.

[@mikercflyer7383]

I had a ride there was no wind at dawn we took off and almost landed in the same field. it was a lot of fun.

[@rcfreakmartini]

Awesome dude!

[@gewiener]

In German we actually say "driving a hot air balloon" instead of "flying", which makes much more sense to me now. :)

[@longflyer63]

Hi Bruno, where was You? city ... :-)

[@dillonbledsoe7680]

Pops got skillz

[@Turner9090]

I could never do this...my palms are sweating just watching it...I mean it’s really cool I just don’t know..maybe I would like it...but I doubt it

[@andrewstrange6570]

OK Bruno, by now you should have qualified, so maybe we'll be seeing you at the Worlds Championships soon. Then you can really show your instructor what you know.

[@serhanrizaleki2214]

I hıghly recommend opening the envelope before inflating

[@Marylegz_1]

Sup Bruno.. what’s the name or contact number for the instructor?

[@tophitske2181]

Hi my name is Fredrick from Kenya.I really love air ballons and I would want to study air balloning but I need help please.Kindly would you sponsor me

[@ryandoe11]

Your "first lesson" seems like the most advanced training you could get in a hot air ballon, probably not the best start lol!

[@BrunoVassel]

Haha - I was amazed at this as well. Oh well - was really fun.

[@paytonblack2469]

Not very advanced that was pretty basic

[@thepilot9796]

Did he get a violation for min alt? That is the most common violation for balloon pilots.....

[@tlwwwalter]

Vielleicht ist er Dachdecker?!

[@CarLoverPhotography]

Cool

[@davidjeffreys9063]

I wouldn't feel comfortable being that high up. 3:40

[@thomasm6876]

My friend, her boyfriend, his father and grandfather, my brother in law sisters husband and sister in law his sister all have pilot licenses. My friends grandfather had a license because in world war 2 he flew the plane. I was in a hot air ballon and I weed myself.

[@medico_ansary]

How it cost

[@BrunoVassel]

I did it for free. Got lucky. :)

[@rogeranderson8763]

I am glad you had a good first flight, It's too late now, being as how this was 5 years ago....but it would be a good idea to engage with an instructor who keeps a better handle on the FAR's. Federal Aviation Regulations state that all aircraft except helicopters maintain 500' elevation above man made objects....and 1000' over congested areas except when landing or taking off. A recording like this is evidence for suspension or revocation.

[@LinkTheFusky]

they need to add realistic hot air balloons in GTA online that you can add custom designs onto

[@AbdallaAwad]

Eye fish camera lense like NASA, why you ruined this awesome view

[@kbuss10]

thats weird... in the USA the rules are so relaxed? i mean its fun, but here in europe some1 would call the cops if you fly in to a backyard like that not to mention the train with its powerlines. i mean thats an accident hazard if they let anyone do that. just sayin, it was obvious that the instructor knew what he was doing and the equipment was perfect

[@kbuss10]

oh yes and in the end they can pull down the balloon so it font lie flat on the big road ahead?

[@BrunoVassel]

I totally agree. I was expecting to go up a few thousand feet and hang out for an hour. I was just as shocked as you were to see how low we got.

[@rnzoli]

Come on, In our country, the home owners would have attacked the balloon from their roofs, with stones, sticks, spitting, and the occasional AK-47s.... :) Plus 500 calls to the national aviation authority, police, local mayor, the left wing party, the right with party, and the head of the state as well. I just couldn't believe my eyes this can be done in the USA, and live to tell about it ! :)