Hot Air Balloon Pilot
The pilot is just 'the pilot'
A hot air balloon pilot is called an aeronaut.
An aeronaut flies a hot air balloon
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!
Pilot
Hot air balloons have a gas heater that is generally powered by propane. When the pilot turns the heater on, the balloon will fly high due to the hydrocarbon chamber that allows the pilot control of ascent and descent of the hot air balloon.
A hot air balloon pilot has control over the vertical axis of flight only. By heating the air in the balloon, the pilot can control the vertical flightpath in an upwarddirection. By releasing hot air or by letting the air cool down, the pilot can affect the vertical axis of flight in a downward direction. Any other directional control (the horizontal flight path) is controlled by the wind. the only control the pilot has in the horizontal flight path is by taking the balloon up or down into the wind which flows in the direction the pilot wants to travel.
Barry Del Sherman
my mom used to crew on hot air balloons (sometimes on the Disney mickey mouse ballon) and all i remember them called are pilot, co pilot, crew chief, crew , and ground crew, and ballonists as a whole - but it does seem to me i have heard somewhere in the distant past a special term for ballon pilots, i think a french term, but i cant recall what it was
He would heat it.
a human being or a passanger or a pilot
a human being or a passanger or a pilot