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2025 Pilot Bios
Carried Away
Brian Koch
Byrnes Mill, MO
Sponsored by
Chevron Renewable Energy Group
Years Flying Balloons - 2
When you are not flying, what do you enjoy doing?
Hanging out with family and friends talking about flying.
Why did you become a pilot?
Had a friend take me up and fell in love with it. Just floating up there.
What do you find is the most challenging about flying a hot air balloon?
Wind direction change can be challenging at times.
Short description of something interesting that ballooning has allowed you to do?
Ballooning has allowed me to travel to different places and events and meet new people.
What do you most want the public to know/understand about hot air balloons and flying them?
When we fly, we are at the mercy of the wind. Sometimes we can change directions by going up or down but that is our only way to "steer".
