2025 Pilot Bios



Smile High

Tony Sandlin

Fishers, IN

Sponsored by

thssenkrupp Dynamic Components, Danville LLC


Years Flying Balloons - 23


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


Watching my son play soccer:)


Why did you become a pilot?


The thrill of being in the sky!


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


Landing spots, they are getting scarce!


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


I flew over the Grand Canyon in a hot air balloon three years ago:)


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


Balloons do not crash. They just land in places you wouldn’t think they could.