2025 Pilot Bios



Feisty Gizzard

Jared Miller

Macomb, IL

Sponsored by

Friends Over Vermilion


Years Flying Balloons - 18


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


Watching movies!


Why did you become a pilot?


I crewed for several years and loved it!


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


Waiting for good weather!


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


Meeting interesting people from all over the world!


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


It is COMPLETELY weather dependent, the weather is not the pilot’s fault!😊