Adirondack Balloon Flights Blog

Time to update recent flights. Earlier in the month, the reservations slowed some, probably because of the children fighting down in DC, making people hesitant to do? And now, it appears that we are past our dry period for the season, check-out the Climate Prediction Center forecast for the balance of the month, at least for now.

Last Friday morning, we flew Sheila, Rob, Anna and Duncan.

The end of a beautiful, late Friday afternoon flight for Jim and Beth.

Saturday morning was the last of the good flying weather. I flew James and his daughter Alexis, who James was sharing some quality dad time with, before she heads-out to college at Fredonia toward the end of the month.

The weather forecast for the balance of the week, as posted today, looks somewhat promising for getting some flights-in. But, if you read the forecast discussion, the weather is not quite as promising past late Thursday into the weekend. So, hopefully, the glass is half full scenario works-out. We could use some dry-time after all the rain from the last couple of days.

The afternoon flying weather hasn’t been the best as of late, and unfortunately, I haven’t had much luck convincing folks on vaca to get up early to enjoy the nice, early morning flying conditions we have been getting this week, except for the one morning flight we did on Wednesday for David and Jennifer.

David arranged a Private Flight for he and Jennifer, his soon to be fiancee.

It was a beautiful morning for a balloon ride.

The proposal.

It's a YES!

All smiles, and the ring.

The weather forecast looks to become unsettled for this weekend, and into next week. While there should be some opportunities to do some flying, it is difficult to determine just which days or flights will work at this time, since the National Weather Service forecast models are all producing a different forecast.

My flying weather looks good for the next 3 mornings, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, plus the Thursday and Friday PMs. I have space available on all flights, so contact me if you want to fly! 518-793-6342.

The flying weather wasn’t the best for my rides over this past weekend. Only flight was on Sunday morning. The weather forecast for the first week of August looks good for flying, especially on Wednesday through Friday. Rain is forecast to return just in-time for the coming weekend.

This is Gina and Katie on the Sunday morning flight.

After a very busy and productive first 2/3′s of July, the bottom 1/3 of the month has not been so productive in producing flights. The weekend is busy, hopefully the flying weather will cooperate better than last weekend’s. Only flight during the week was on Wednesday morning.

On Wednesday morning, I flew the Tobias family from CT who were vacationing in the area.

My flying schedule is full for this weekend, and the weather forecast looks promising, Next week, I have space available on most flights. The flying weather forecast looks best on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday for flying during the week, at this time. Call or email me if you are interested in flying, I have space available.

This past week was not the most productive flying week for me in July. The only flight was on Friday morning. I chose not to do afternoon flights this week due to the heat and humidity, and the weekend didn’t bring conditions suitable to fly my customers. I did notice that some of our newly minted commercial pilots did fly their passengers on Saturday morning with rain and storms just on the southern edge of our flight area most of the morning. More on that later. Friday morning brought us decent, but hot flying conditions, so I could fly my customers who were visiting from Bogota, Columbia. They included a flight with us in their itinerary while in the states.

This is Jose Martinez and his wife Maria and son Juan on the flight.

An apres flight photo of a somewhat windy landing, with the balloon nicely laid-out by the wind

The weather forecast for this week offers a some good flying weather mid week, being wrapped by rain at the beginning and the end of the week. The flying weather should then improve for the last weekend of the month, and then on to August. How the time does fly bye. It will be the fall flying season before you know it, so, our fall flyers may want to get their reservations in soon. Our fall season will be here before you know it.

We have been getting some decent weather this month for flying. It is a definite improvement from all the rain we got during our Spring flying season. Now to catch-up on some of our recent flights -

On Wednesday morning we flew Sara and Jeff, which was Sara's birthday.

Next up, on Friday morning we flew 2 couples. This is John And Maureen from Lake George

Our other Friday morning couple is Daryl and Jan. They hail from Valdosta GA

On Friday evening, we flew Doug and Inga from Scotia who were celebrating an anniversary.

This morning, Saturday the 16th, I flew Ken and Joe from the Baltimore area.

There are more flights to come this weekend, as our flight weather should hold through tonight and at least Sunday morning, if not right through Monday morning. It’s a beautiful summer weekend for folks in the area for vacation. And, as just a hint on what we’re expecting for next week’s weather, HHH summer weather is on the way!