Originally Posted by Granny Quilter
I've seen the show in Albuquerque several times. beautiful! But every year someone gets hurt, so I would be afraid to try.
Any time you place that many balloons...or ANYTHING... together in such limited space, there's bound to be some incident. The capability to control speed and direction of a balloon is almost non-existent. Anyone who has a licence to fly a balloon, even if the ink on it isn't even dry yet, can fly at Albuquerque. Tooooo many people having too good a time for too many days with very little sleep... the Festival is absolutely awesome! But stick with smaller balloon rallys for safety. When I was the director of the rally in my area, pilots were required to have 100 hours of incident-free balloon flight before being invited.