2025 Pilot Bios



Knot Crazy

Al Reusch

Macomb, IL

Sponsored by

Shore Wealth Management


Years Flying Balloons - 35


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


Spending time with family, traveling, fishing


Why did you become a pilot?


I went for a ride in 1986 and I was hooked.


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


Weather


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


Travel off the beaten path and meeting so many new people.


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