2026 Pilot Bios



Knot Crazy

Al Reusch

MACOMB, IL

Sponsored by

Shore Wealth Management


Years Flying Balloons - 36


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


Spending Time with family, traveling, golfing, fishing


Why did you become a pilot?


Sponsored a hot air balloon in Macomb and went for a ride and fell in love with the sport. Enjoy the joy on the faces of the people I meet when I am flying.


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 to new places and meeting so many new people


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


There is a lot of preparations that need to be done prior to going for a flight