2024 Pilot Bios



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Glenn OConnell

Gilberts, IL

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Years Flying Balloons - 42


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


Spending time with my family.


Why did you become a pilot?


As a young boy I had the dream of flying.


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


Picking the safest weather to fly in


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


To see different parts of the our country and Canada


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


That we can only fly in light winds -preferably less that 5 mph with no rain in the area