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A hot air balloon pilot is called an aeronaut.
A balloon pilot controls ascent by heating the air inside the balloon with a burner and descent by allowing the air to cool or venting it.
A pilot drives a hot air balloon. They also have to take an FAA written examination to become a pilot, because you really need to trust someone to pilot unexperienced riders!
This is the basket that is suspended below the balloon and carries the pilot and passengers.
Pilot
Heating the air makes less air take up the same space, so the air inside the balloon is lighter than the surrounding air. The pilot turns off the burner to help the balloon to maintain the current altitude or to descend.
I am fairly sure that hot air balloons use normal air. They rely more on the idea of bouyancy rather than using specal gases, such as helium. The hot air inside of the balloon is more bouyant than the cold air outside of the balloon. So that makes the balloon ascend till the temperature of the air inside of the balloon is equal to the temperature of the air outside of the balloon. Then as the air inside the balloon gets colder, the balloon starts to descend.
A hot air balloon pilot is called an aeronaut.
By pumping water or air into the ballast tanks.
A gas of low density has the tendence to ascend.
Hot Air Balloon Pilot
A balloon pilot controls ascent by heating the air inside the balloon with a burner and descent by allowing the air to cool or venting it.
Hot air balloons go down by releasing the hot air in the balloon. Normally you just let the air inside cool and descend slowly. You release hot air only if you wish to descend more quickly.
An aeronaut flies a hot air balloon
An air bounce is a throw of a frisbee at a downward angle causing the frisbee to start to descend and then ascend later.
The pilot is just 'the pilot'
They have to let out the hot air a little at a time.