What?
Ballooning is one of the most comfortable ways to observe our wide world from an alternative perspective. It isn't cold up there. You can hardly feel the difference in temperature on the ground. Because the balloon is flying with the wind, you don't feel the wind and you can wear casual clothes.

When?
Because of the air stability, we fly just before after sunrise or just before sunset. We stay on the ground when there is too much wind or when the visibility is not sufficient. We want you to enjoy your balloon flight in perfect conditions.

How?
Each flight we can take up to 6 passengers in our "little Opel Willy" balloon, up to 12 passengers in our "big Opel Willy" balloon and up to 3 passengers in our special shape "Nelly-B". We accept bookings from 1 up to ... passengers. We can also take care of your group activities. Our minimum guaranteed flight time is 1 hour and can go up to 1 hour 45. During the flight we do between 10 - 50 kilometres, depending on the wind speed and landing possibilities. You have to count about 4 hours for the whole ballooning experience, from the start till the moment we are back at the launching spot. After ballooning, we always talk, with a glass of champagne, about the unique experience you had. Each passenger gets also his personnel flight certificate with a personal gift.

Where?

Usualy, we fly in Belgium, Oost Vlaanderen. But on request we can almost realise miracles. Call or mail us for more information.  

The pilot, Peter Van Overwalle, who is a professional balloon pilot (he has  1000 hours experience as Pilot in Command in hot air balloons), and his friendly crew have a long experience with hot air balloons. We are proud to be one of the safest ballooning teams in Belgium.

Peter proves his nature for responsability as President of the "Belgian Professional Balloon Pilot Association".

Participation at many balloon festivals in Europe, United States and Canada prove the professionalism of the team. Peter has flown balloons in: (of course) Belgium, Netherlands, France, Germany, Eireland, Switzerland, Canada, USA, Japan, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Malaysia, China...

  
A 1st place (ABQ Scoring List) in the New Mexico Long Distance Challange at the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta 2003 and 2004 (750 participants) together with co-pilot Dennis Waldron from Billings, Montana: a proof that good weather forecast, experience, concentration en a perfect coöperation between 2 international friends can lead to a wonderfull victory.

A 2nd place at the Billings Big Sky Fest in 2003, before the American and Canadian champion: this proves our precision and professionalism.
 

A 2nd place as co-pilot at the German Championship Gasballoon in Bitterfelt in 2007 with pilot Bob Berben. A challenge in a complete different way of ballooning...

peter@american-ballooning.be