Balloon Life - July 1998

THE MAGAZINE FOR HOT AIR BALLOONING

July 1998
Volume 13, Number 7

Features

A First Time Crew's Eye-View
What is it like to crew for the first time. And not just at any rally, but he Big One, KAIBF.

Experimental Balloon and Airship Meet
Jon Radowski takes you inside the gathering for home-builders. Three days of sharing ideas and testing out the new creations.

Spirit of Peace
Jacques Soukup, Crispin Williams, and Mark Sullivan toss their hats into the ring to become the first to circumnavigate the world by balloon.

Spirit of Peace Team

Ballooning in Canada
How and where ballooning in Canada got started and the state of ballooning up North today.

BFA Conflict - Commentary
The BFA Board of Directors continues to waffle on reining in its errant competition division. At the same time a committee has been formed to examine how the organization might be restructured. The committee's current focus is on whether to split the BFA in two.

Motion to dissolve the competition division

Poll of BFA Board members

Restructure committee members and how to contact

Special Report: FAA Compliance/Enforcement Program

FAA Ticket Program
The FAA plans to simplify its life in issuing Administrative Enforcement actions against airmen. Balloon Life examines whether it is simplification or a pilot's nightmare?

Compliance/Enforcement Bulletin 98-1
The full text of the FAA's bulletin that creates the new "ticket" program.

Checklist

Editor

Calendar

Preflight
News and Information

Reviews
How To Write, Publish & Sell Your Own Aviation Books
The Ultimate Adventure - Video

Balloon Life Marketplace
Products and Services for sale

Balloonmeister
Sam Baxter

Logbook
La Garita Springs Creek, Colorado
Walla Walla, Washington

Hangar Flying
with George Denniston
Splash 'n Dash

Cover Photo: Carol Weiner's latest special shape balloon. Photo by: Kay West