Peaceful, exhilarating, unbeatable.
Hot Air Ballooning from the foothills of Mt Hutt的点评
点评:The weather on the day we'd originally booked was forecast to be pretty awful (wind / rain / low cloud). However, a quick enquiry asking to be transferred to a flight a couple of days later was quick and easy. The organisers were super helpful and responsive.
On the morning of the flight everything worked like clockwork. Graeme (pilot) and the team were very friendly and allowed us to help out with inflating the balloon and packing up at the end, accompanied by the traditional post-flight glass of champaign!
The flight itself was fantastic. It was a cold frosty morning, but the burners kept us warm. We got up to 8000' with a view over the Alps as far as Mt Cook and out over the Canterbury plains to the Pacific. Graeme was very informative, explaining how we could use the katabatic wind from the Alps to blow us away over the Plains until we gained enough height to catch an Easterly to move the other direction. Fascinating stuff.
Overall, an awesome experience!
翻译:我们原先预订的那天天气预报很糟糕(刮风/下雨/低云)。不过,我们很快询问是否可以改签到几天后的航班,过程非常顺利。组织者非常乐于助人,回复也很及时。
飞行当天早上,一切都进行得非常顺利。飞行员格雷姆和他的团队非常友好,还让我们帮忙给热气球充气,并在飞行结束后收拾行李,当然,还有传统的飞行后香槟庆祝!
飞行本身非常棒。那天早晨很冷,还有些霜冻,但燃烧器让我们感觉很温暖。我们升到了8000英尺的高度,可以远眺阿尔卑斯山脉,一直到库克山,还能看到坎特伯雷平原和太平洋。格雷姆讲解得非常详细,他告诉我们如何利用阿尔卑斯山的下坡风吹过平原,直到我们爬升到足够的高度,然后借助东风改变方向。真是太精彩了!
总而言之,这是一次非常棒的体验!