1. Federal Aviation Regulations A Practical Application

2. Our Tale Begins  Balloon Race – Helen to the Sea 2003  Objective to fly from Helen, GA to I-95  Requirements –  Crew  Aircraft  Pilot  Planning –  Support equipment  Crew & Pilot

3. Support Equipment  2 chase vehicles  Radios & spare batteries  Food & drinks for crew  Spare fuel tanks, Fuel hoses & adaptors  Maps for Georgia & South Carolina  Logbook for position enroute reports  Camera

4. Our Crew & Pilot

5. Our Balloon

6. Our Launch Site

7. Helen, GA

8. Helen to the Sea

9. First Two Legs

15. First leg

16. Landing in Anderson, SC

17. Depart Anderson

18. Maximum Altitude

19. First landing: Approached from the North Took on Fuel & Food N

22. Anderson Radio

24. Thermal

25. Landing in Fairfield

26. View From upwind

27. Looking Downwind

28. Access Road

30. Departing Fairfield Airport

31. Climbing Fast

32. Get to Altitude Quickly

33. Still Climbing

34.  Magnetic courses  0 – 179 degrees VFR – Odd thousands plus 500’  180-359 degrees VFR – Even thousands plus 500’  Applies above 3,000 AGL Below 18,000’MSL Cruising Altitudes 7500’

35. Third leg

36. Helen to the Sea

37. Rescued by my crew

41. Statistics  Take off at 7:11 AM  Final Landing at 8:16 PM  Flew 225 miles  Chased ??? Miles  Used 146 gallons of fuel  Total flight time 9:46 hrs

42. Lessons learned  Have crew lay out balloon  Food in basket  Extra pens with lanyards  Map board  Straight Edge  Refueling adaptor in van  2 Cameras