adamchikas

Are these robots heads up only? Are there robots who can play tournaments?

I've witnessed a total of 3 marriage proposals in my basket. And one of them wasn't quite succesful. It was a very nice couple of two students most probably, she was slightly out of his league. Long story short she said 'I don't know'. It was pretty awkward at first but we landed in a super nice neighbourhood. Local people invited us for breakfast and they shared their morning wine with us. So I didn't find it awkward anymore, but felt really sorry for the guy who proposed.

Hey, I believe you refer to the 16 killed in a crash in Texas. I have to mention that balloons are really safe statistically and you don't get these tragic news too frequently. It was most definetly human error as the visibility wasn't good enough because of mist and the balloon flew into transmission tower and nobody survived. Plus recent news suggest that pilot had drugs in system during a flight and he fought depression.

Hey I am from Lithuania so I'll speak from my perspective. I made my license for roughly 3,5k€ with theory and 15 hours of flights with an instructor. All in all everything here is rather expensive. 10k€ is the cheapest you can get with all incuded the envelope, basket, burners, van(without a car) etc. And gets to as much as 100k€ if everything is brand new. Balloon uses arround 100 litres of propane butane per hour with 5-6 people in the basket and average summer temperature (it burns less gas when it's colder). So again ~~50€ per hour of flight. Now when it comes to tickets we used to charge 80€ for one person per one hour of flight, but as the demand is huge here in Lithuania we are making it 100€ per person from 2017. That being said Lithuania is most probably one of the cheapest you can fly and get a license in Europe.

Didn't have this kind of situation just yet :D . We land if someone is sick. However we can't land wherever we want to so I guess in a most unfortunate situation we do our stuff and drop it outside the basket. So yeah, no toilets on a balloon :D.