2024 Pilot Bios



Memories In Flight

David Boesdorfer

Springfield, IL

Sponsored by

CCMSI


Years Flying Balloons - 9


When you are not flying, what do you enjoy doing?


Spending time with family and friends


Why did you become a pilot?


I enjoy flying and seeing the balloons


What do you find is the most challenging about flying a hot air balloon?


Finding crew and the weather


Short description of something interesting that ballooning has allowed you to do?


Meeting other pilots and crew


What do you most want the public to know/understand about hot air balloons and flying them?


We cannot “steer” the balloon, we can only go where the wind takes us, we can’t fly anytime, we are very weather dependent