You can actually steer them. Winds go in different directions in different heights.
I feel like these guys severely skew balloon safety statistics.
Team Rocket are actually great pilots! The spots they can get that balloon into and out of are absurd. They can take it seemingly whatever direction they want, with people and critters jumping into and out of the balloon at random.
They could be professional aeronauts, but their boss keeps making them chase a living high voltage hazard and his balloon-wrecking friends.
they blew up all the budget for tools, travel and hotels in a giant balloon shaped like their pet.
Lots of questionable choices, but cant deny their dedication to camp.
They weren't the only members of team rocket to use balloon travel.
We have no idea how it averages out.
They are quite safe and you can land pretty quickly if need be, but yes steering is nigh impossible.
Not impossible if you know what way the winds are blowing at different heights
Yeah thats why i said "nigh". Its not really steering because you cant freely decide, its more like choosing from a limited set of directional options.
omg, life is just a hot air balloon ride
Very zen.
Just depends how high you are
always.
"Depends. For those times when you're too high to make it to the bathroom."
(For the non-aware, "Depends" are an American brand of adult diapers.)
Depending on how things go, you can land very quickly indeed.
Snail Mail shot a whole music video in a hot air baloon. It kicks ass
Kriss Kyle did BMX bike tricks in a tiny skatepark under a hot air balloon. One of my #balloons posts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSVuDBKLC5A https://feddit.online/c/floatingisfun@fedia.io/p/1714852/dont-look-down-by-kriss-kyle
I have taken off in a hot air balloon a dozen times or so....
Not once did I land with it. Even good landings seem to leave some things to luck.
Edit: added forgotten T.
You never landed? You’re still up there?
I jumped...
Some say I'm still falling to this day.
In all seriousness, balloon jumps are a unique experience in skydiving... Because you go from dead silence to the rush of air at terminal velocity. Sure you can jump a helicopter that is hovering, but they are louder than airplanes.
Exits from a balloon also tend to catch less experienced jumpers off guard, because you can't fly your body till the speed builds up. First timers tend to flail a little. By the second jump they do just fine.
10 points to anyone who gets this reference
Better still, how does taking off in a hot air balloon while you're still in another one work?
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