2024 Pilot Bios



Smile High

Tony Sandlin

Fishers, IN

Sponsored by

Courtesy Auto Group


Years Flying Balloons - 22


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


Watching son play soccer and doing taxes - 1000 in 2024!


Why did you become a pilot?


Saw an ad in the paper


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


Getting crew and dealing with weather


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


Meet the Vice President of the United States - Mike Pence - He flew with me!


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


We don't crash - we land in odd spots