If they cannot be steered, how can hot air balloons compete?
Spain hot air balloon championship
As we have seen before, pilots do have control of climbing and descending and will use the wind directions at different altitudes to manoeuvre the balloon, something that may sound impossible.
Instruments such as GPS, intuition and skills may help them with their purpose.
All the tasks are based on the abilty of the pilots to control their aircraft. The most experienced pilots manage to fly over a target, set several kilometers away of the launch site, to drop a weighted marker as close to the center as they can, sometimes the difference between first place and third can be fractions of a centimeter.
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