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Meet Our Pilots..

Kenneth Karlstrom

Kenneth Karlstrom has flown passenger-carrying balloons for nearly 25 years. He is currently flying the Virgin Balloon, G - VBFB, "Kilo Virgin Balloon Flights", a Cameron 340 capable of taking up to sixteen passengers.

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Damon Bridger

Damon Bridger has flown passenger-carrying balloons for over 10 years. He is currently flying the Virgin Balloon, G - EVBF, "Victor Virgin Balloon Flights", a Colt 315 capable of taking up to sixteen passengers.

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Mark Shemilt

Mark Shemilt is one of Europe's finest passenger carrying pilots. He is one of the most experienced pilots in the world having flown more than 2,000 hours in large hot air balloons.


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Kevin Meehan

Kevin Meehan has flown passenger-carrying balloons for over 30 years. He currently flies a mixture of different size Virgin Balloons, ranging from a Lindstrand 77, to a Cameron 400, taking between two and sixteen people.

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John Fenton

John Fenton has flown passenger carrying balloons for many years now, being one of the first pilots to obtain an Air Operators Certificate. He currently flies a Cameron 350 which has the capacity to fly 16 passengers.

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Peter Waller

Peter first became involved with ballooning over 15 years ago, when he took to the skies in a friend's balloon and instantly caught the bug! Ballooning continued as a hobby whilst running his own insurance brokerage but eventually became full time when he sold his business.

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Richard Prowse

Richard Prowse began his ballooning career in 1990 working for a small operator in South Devon. With 3 years experience as a private pilot he gained his commercial licence in 1993 and began flying Cameron 180's.

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Mark Simmons

Mark Simmons, or "Nobby" as he is affectionately known by his work colleagues, has been a Commercial Pilot since 1991.

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Lindsay Muir

Lindsay is currently one of the leading balloonists in Great Britain, (and certainly the UK’s leading female competition pilot) and arguably the best female hot air balloon pilot in the World.

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Martin Collinson

Martin Collinson has been flying professionally for over 10 years and is one of the small group of 12 pilots qualified to fly the biggest passenger balloons.

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Max Duncomb

Max Duncomb has been a commercial pilot for 15 years. He is currently flying a new Virgin Balloon, G – UVBF, “Uniform Virgin Balloon Flights”, a Lindstrand 400 capable of taking up to 20 passengers.

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Dave Sutcliffe

Dave Sutcliffe, or ‘Sutty’ as he is known, has 17 years experience as a commercial hot air balloon pilot. He is currently flying Virgin Balloon, G - LVBF, “Tango Virgin Balloon Flights”, a Lindstrand 310 capable of taking up to 16 passengers.

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Conrad van Wyk

Conrad van Wyk has been a commercial balloon pilot for 9 years. He is currently flying a new Virgin Balloon, G - VBFE, an UltraMagic 250 capable of taking up to 12 passengers.

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Allan Calder

Allan has been a commercial balloon pilot for nigh on 27 years and in that time he has flown 30,000 passengers, in balloons of all shapes and sizes, over more than 16 different nations, in six continents.

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Gary Mortimer

Gary began flying hot air balloons in 1988 having continually bumped into them during his 17 years in the Royal Air Force (although not literally!).

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Simon Redman

Simon Redman has been flying balloons for seven years and has joined Virgin Balloon Flights to fly from sites including Blandford Forum, Shaftsbury, Tiverton, Taunton and Sherborne.

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