Corporate Entertainment

A Typical Corporate Morning or Evening Scenario

Arrive Brook Farm
Arrival time 1 to 1 1/2 hours before take off time, coffee available on arrival. We fly at the beginning and end of the day when the air is stable, thermal activity caused by the sun heating the ground causes instability during the day. Times are typically 6.00am and 6.30pm.

Flight Briefing
A briefing will be given covering the days meteorological report, expected flight path, approaching the balloons and expected time of arrival back at Brook Farm (a separate briefing will be given by the pilots prior to take off advising safe conduct during the flight).

Inflation
Guests will be invited to assist with inflating the balloons, this usually takes about 30 mins.

 

The Flight
We normally plan to fly the first half hour or so at high altitude up to 5,000ft. For a panoramic view of the countryside. On certain days we are able to see as far as the Isle of Man, to the West, and the Yorkshire Dales, to the East, as well as the Welsh mountains South and The Lake District and Forest of Bowland to the North. The second half of the flight we then track at lower levels so as to relate to wild life and scenic countryside.

The Retrieve
After landing the retrieve crew, who will have been following the balloon, will help to pack away the balloon and then return us all back to Brook Farm, where champagne will be served to celebrate the flight and certificates presented to remember it by. The champagne incidentally, is part of the tradition of ballooning, the historical story is that the Montgolfiere brothers, the first balloonists, used to give the peasants champagne when they landed to show that the balloon was of human origin and not piloted by devils or extra terrestrial beings.