Breakfast on the Verandah
Ed Heltshe and friends head down to Zimbabwe, borrow a balloon from Terry Adams and meet new friends

How Low Can You Go?
Balloon Lifeexamines the recent petition seeking lower minimum safe altitudes for balloons

Petition Denied

The text of the FAA's denail of an earlier BFA petition to lower minimum sef altitudes for balloons

Choose Your Landing Site Carefully

Text from a recent NTSB decision on appropriate landing sites and low flight

Reviews
Logbook Portfolio
How Balloons Fly

Weather Information Interpretation
A balloonists guide to the new weather report symbols

Weather Quiz
Once you have reviewd the new weather report information, test you knowledge

Windsock
A new hand held calculator that provides balloon pilots with real-time, affordable winds aloft readings

Everything Weather
Balloon Life Reviews the Weather Channels new CD-ROM containing a wealth of weather information

Calendar

Preflight
News and Information

Crew Quarters
Conflict Among the Chase Crew

Repair Station
Fuel System Maintenance

Balloon Life Marketplace
Products and Services for sale

Balloonmeister
Mel Hanson

Freeflight
Christine Kalakawa
(IM)Practacle Test Standards

Postflight
Letters to the Editor

Hangar Flying
with George Denniston
The Half Rip Landing

Cover Illustration: Do you ever feel like you are having a bad weather day ?
Illustrator: Mark Pacan