BALLOON METEOROLOGY

For all lovers of aerial sports, but also for nature lovers, let's discover together the atmosphere and its low layers. We will make beautiful flights and fill our logbook. Our balloon trip is going to be long but so captivating and enriching. We will evolve with the winds in the atmosphere on board our balloon. You will be amazed to discover, to surprise even the deepest secrets of this aerial environment which is at the same time grandiose, majestic, serene, dark and sometimes mystical. During our flights, which will take place in progressive stages, we will approach the study of meteorological parameters and the physical laws of the atmosphere. We will also do some experiments and observations. Ballooning is not a fight against the forces of the atmosphere and the earth. On the contrary, it is to be in harmony with them. The balloon "floats" and only the pilot can maintain his altitude. For example, he must avoid the updrafts caused by the sun that warm the ground. He must be aware of the existence of downdrafts over forests and bodies of water and many other meteorological phenomena.…