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Hot Air Ballooning SA

MAGALIESBERG, we fly from Hunters Rest, a 4-star lodge in the heart of the mountains, 60km from Sun City.

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TEL:033 2677370

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Description

The areas you fly from, and over, your host’s hospitality, the quality of balloons and equipment, the expertise of your pilot, the post-flight celebration, fun and involvement, all contribute to a real ballooning experience.  It is for these reasons that we fly from our carefully selected venues - Toadbury Hall, The Cradle Game Reserve and Clarens. Our balloons are smaller and more intimate, our pilots are national champions, and our hospitality provides for lots of fun and involvement. We call this REAL ballooning. Hot air ballooning is about an intriguing blend of personal challenge, adventure, romance, the unknown, colour and fun, of getting closer to nature’s elements of earth, wind, fire and firmament. If surreality has a place in life’s list of experiences, then perhaps hot air ballooning best provides it. It’s about experiencing mankind’s oldest form of aviation, suspended animation beneath a colourful canopy of hot air – destination unknown!  - momentarily leaving the loving arms of Mother Earth, outside the confines of aircraft, at one with nature. It’s gentle, it’s safe, and we at Hot Air Ballooning SA are privileged to provide the very best of it. 

We offer the full spectrum of hot air ballooning services throughout South Africa, subject only to capacity and venue suitability.

 

MISSION STATEMENT
Our mission is to provide a safe and reliable opportunity to experience the very best that hot air ballooning in South Africa has to offer by flying in the best areas, employing the best pilots and flying the finest balloons. We acknowledge that our passengers are entitled to experience adventure, romance and excitement, that many flights are undertaken to celebrate a milestone in their lives, and in this regard, we undertake to provide the very best, fun-filled occasion.

THE TEAM

MARC NUTHALL
CEO of Hot Air Ballooning SA and Chief Pilot, 9 years in hot air ballooning, 3 times South African hot air balloon champion, represented South Africa in the World Championships in France in 2002, member of the board – Aeroclub South Africa, Balloon and Airship Federation of South Africa and the Pioneer Hot Air Balloon Club.

Marc competed in the World Championships, held in Japan in November 2006.

WARWICK COOK
Responsible Person: Safety and Aircraft for Hot Air Ballooning SA, 10 years in hot air ballooning, twice the Provincial champion, and achieved second place to Marc in the 2006 National Championships. Chief crew member for Marc in the World Championships in 2002. Member of Balloon and Airship Federation of SA and Pilot of the Year, Pioneer balloon Club. Flew the balloon which dropped the Da Vinci parachute in Mpumalanga, 2000.

ANN COOK
Responsible person: Ground Operations for Hot Air Ballooning SA, 10 years ballooning experience as crew. Office administrator and bookings.

TERRY ADAMS
We are honored to have Terry, the founder of hot air ballooning in South Africa, as a member of our team. Terry first began ballooning in England in 1972, emigrated to South Africa in 1976 and started Flamboyant Balloons. In so doing, he got ballooning off the ground in South Africa; he has built over 50 balloons. Amongst his most memorable achievements was launching his balloon from the Ark Royal, an aircraft carrier, landing in Malta in the mid 1970s. Terry has ballooned the length and breadth of South Africa and is a legend in international ballooning circles.

Most present day balloonists owe our ballooning involvement to Terry.


Hot Air Ballooning SA was established in 2004, is a fully licensed and insured non-scheduled airline, Air Service Licence category A4, N1 Class II, N807D and G2 Class III, G808D.

SAFETY RECORD

Incident-free since inception.

Our balloons are inspected annually by the Civil Aviation Authority.

All flights are conducted with a pre-flight safety check, in-flight safety checks and landing checks.

All flights are conducted under the control of Civil Aviation regulations of South Africa.

All flights are conducted weather permitting, and the decision of the pilot is final.

 

Directions

Hot Air Ballooning SA covers an extensive area. For the Nottingham Rd area join us to fly the magnificent rolling hills of the Kamberg.......just 20mins out of town. Further North taking in the majesty of the Berg flying largely in the Winterton area. Our southern jewel in nestled in the Tala Valley. Tala Game Reserve just outside Camperdown offers a game viewing opportunity from the balloon.