My first lesson in hot air balloon - 15 feet off the ground in neighborhoods! 

I have to laugh...this guys is awesome but if I did half of what he did with my drone people would be calling the cops on me!! lol

I watched this video, called Kent, bought a balloon, took lessons, got my cert, and now I fly religiously. It’s the funnest, most relaxing way to share a view with a friend or loved one. Thanks Bruno.

This guy is crazy!! It looks like he has no control at times but he absolutely knows what he is doing, amazing!! Thanks for posting this video!

Great instructor. Amazing illustration of the control they have. You'd want to be very confident, experienced and skilled to fly so close to any neighborhood like that. Do that here in Perth (Western Australia), & you'd end up with the CAA, cops and local TV all over you.

I rode a balloon in Canada when I was 15 and I got to co pilot the balloon. The scenery was beautiful. We went kayaking, rode on a gondola and cable car, went mountain hiking, went cycling and went whale watching.

that is so cool, I always thought balloons where boring, but it has its science.

I just got my commercial balloon rating in January with Balloon the Rockies flight school in Utah and Kent was one of my instructors down there! He is a great guy, amazing pilot and excellent instructor!

I just moved to New Mexico and damn one thing on my bucket list is to hop on one of these bad boys for he Balloon Fiesta next year (2021)

Wow, that is just amazing! I never thought you control a balloon like that. Unbelievable how you hovered through those gardens. There is now one more thing on my lifetime to do list. Thanks Bruno

Wow,that was an amazing ride ! Must admit I was thinking about the safety aspects of flying so low in a built up area but good fun

Thanks for sharing! I thought making a videogame about air balloons would be easy, but I am learning a lot with each video and this one is very informative, had to add physics to make it more realistic

Good job Kent!

Wow, just amazing! I never would've thought you could do this kind of stuff in a balloon. I actually LOL'd while you guys were floating over streets and houses! Just imagine someone walking out onto their back porch and seeing this overhead! Thanks for sharing, Bruno!

So thats what you look like. Nice to put a face to a name.We normally see a white hat and sunglasses from the side. Interesting to see the different control method. Thanks for the ride.

Bruno that is literally my neighborhood! At 12:34 I can clearly see my house by the church, neat!

Nice video Bruno. Up close and personal. A new mind-broadening experience. Thanks :)

Cool Bruno, sometimes a little too close for comfort but nice to ride along

Wow! That's really impressive. I didn't think balloons where allowed to fly so low over a built-up area.

Wow! That pilot was good.

Wow thanks for sharing I enjoyed watching you had a beautiful nice day for hot air ballooning

I've made a couple of flights. I really enjoyed flying low over neighborhoods (carrying on conversations with residents, at a normal speaking voice) and scraping sagebrush as we skimmed over a hillside.

Well this is just way too cool! I want to learn to fly!

Excellent video! It answered my questions I had about ballooning. I've been flying since I was little, but never in a hot air balloon!! Great insight into how they operate!

Great fun 😎 thanks for posting Bruno 😀

Very interesting. Also had no idea there could be so much control. I guess wind would play a large role in that though.

Awesome video! That looked way too fun skimming rooftops.

That was amaaazing!! Love your videos! Keep em up!

Thank you for the ride.

That was unbelievable!

I know 0 about hot air balloons but after watching your video i want to buy one now. Thanks

Hot air balloons are sub-zero cool, gotta love the look on your face just after lifting off.... Priceless! I used to make small 6ft tall envelops out of Japanese Tissue with a meth burner as a kid, flew them on still mornings / evenings on 100ft fishing line tethers or in the stairwell of the family home - burner replaced by a hair-dryer - when the wind was blowing, which it seems to do constantly in the UK.

Nice video Balloons are so cool last winter I saw one flying over roof tops and it was so big looking I followed it kept dipping down then going back up before I knew it several other cars started to follow with me watching it. The wind was stronger then in this video I guess they got blown into the area. The balloon company truck was following from the ground. I lost track had to break off needed to go home sure looked fun.

Hot air balloons are just so beautiful and that view is just amazinggg, I could never go on one though cause I’d have wayy too much anxiety being that high in a short basket

Haha the kids on the floor terrified

Looks like you had a great balloon ride with a great landing. My one and only ride in one ended on top of a 14 story building in downtown Albuquerque. Got becalmed and the sun shining on the side of the building created a thermal which held us in place. Landed just before we ran out of fuel. It was Sunday and the building was closed, took all day to get down and had to have a helicopter lift the balloon off. I never trusted anything that requires moving parts or an open flame to fly :-)

Alot of comments on how you could get in trouble being so low….but I would love a person to fly over my house barely, and say hi….that would just make my whole week!….probably my whole year actually!!!

Awesome! Great video. Love watching your videos. Thanks for sharing. 👍🏼

That is so cool!!

Congrats on the first lesson! Nicely done! :)

Very pretty looking neighbourhood.. not sure how much I'd love a balloon cruising over my backyard at that height tho.. especially if im chilling by the pool in my budgies 😅

8:00 Holy crap I thought he was joking! It's amazing the amount of control he has over a craft that can effectively only control altitude.

No parachute no safety woww y’all brave 😅😅😅😅

Thank you for this awesome video!

That looks like fun I'd like to take a drone with and fly around it

Wow, didn't know balloons can be fun, I thought they are only good to jump out of

yep…i have a drone too…and you are correct…i think you get a free pass when in a balloon. a drone has a camera. and you cant see who is looking.

where is this place all those houses are beautiful

such a beautiful town

Pops got skillz

One time one of those got stuck into my roof.

holy crap! at 2:00 the blue balloon with the rainbow patterns down the side is an exact twin of my balloon!

What a Cool little trip, You got a lot of attention! And a change from flying, it's kind of like the difference from a Fish and a Jellyfish? Weird right? Lol!

I just took my first nonpowered fight in a Balloon today I had a Blessed. I need a new Certification. Lol

thats really cool

I love hot-air balloons!

Greetings and subscribing from Belgium 😼👍🏻😎 Boss video!

I definitely would not have been comfortable flying as low as that! I think my minimum altitude would be no lower than the height of the highest power lines in the area…

Nice video.... felt like a self experience..... What is this beautiful place called?

I could never do this...my palms are sweating just watching it...I mean it’s really cool I just don’t know..maybe I would like it...but I doubt it

Just seen the little child in the basket. Seems they are so busy to keep and eye on him/her.

love your gliding videos. having said that, i'm surprised by this video. this seems more like a video of a cautionary tale of things not to do in a balloon. stuff like this is why these balloons keep killing people. and further, the distraction to the people driving, when a balloon comes skimming over the roads. i can't believe the FAA even allows that kind of ballooning over populated areas.

That was a bit nerve racking to me lol.. Thumbs up video!!~John

HEY BRUNO this is amazing i actually helped put up a hot air balloon and actually put off the burner and waallllllaaaaaa i was a pro was such an amazing experience

I had a ride there was no wind at dawn we took off and almost landed in the same field. it was a lot of fun.

Wow, this has been my best video on RU-vid thanks guys 💕😍

Wow ! this is cool, OMG great experience... What did you feel when you fly a balloon? fear? relax? or... ?

I just subscribed and liked your video,Iam from ON Canada & WOW!!! ,it looks like that neighborhood is really friendly waving to other people!!! We have an actual accidental place where the Hotair balloon companies found a really perfect spot in behind a retirement home by a park and they keep on putting up a lot of hotair balloons mostly every summer except this year cause of Covid.2018 my family saw 5 or 6 hotair balloons take off behind the retirement building,it actually is 2 buildings down from my families house,we’ve actually talked to the people in the basket cause they were right beside the house but,the balloon was maybe 20,000 or 30,000 feet,we always take lots of photos!!!! , actually just a week and a half ago,we just saw our local radio station,their blue 96.7 chyme balloon go through fog and disappear,have never experienced that and them go above the clouds,I think if my math is correct,it was about 50,000 to 150,000 feet. My mom,my brother and I want to go in a hotair balloon sometime,Iam not afraid of saying this but,I am scared of really,really huge heights!!!! 😬😬😬🤣🤣🤣 ,just a question,sometime my family wants to travel to the states,can we hook up with you guys,if you guys are still having the balloon festival in 2021?!!!!! 😁😁😁

It bothers me how short the rim of the basket is. It came up to the neck of the little boy but only to the waist of the adults...the best I could see. I am uncomfortable in high "open spaces " - fear of falling. In airplanes I feel enclosed and safe and enjoy flying in commercial airplanes, small aircraft such as a Cessna 172, and even took my first glider flight recently and enjoyed that. In the glider, sitting on the nose of the plane, when we made a steep bank, it almost seemed as if I was just hanging in space because the view is unobstructed, it took my breath at first but I got used to it. But put me in an high open space and I feel uncomfortable - so I have a feeling I would not like being in a balloon with a basket rim that only came up to my waist.

In German we actually say "driving a hot air balloon" instead of "flying", which makes much more sense to me now. :)

you can control that thing?

Do the balloons actually ever have a collision?

Can you rent one of these balloons and then put it on a tether I'd love to look at the view from my house way up in the air.

How far do the balloons go before you have to land them?

I hıghly recommend opening the envelope before inflating

Awesome dude!

What is the fire accidentally burn the balloon?

OK Bruno, by now you should have qualified, so maybe we'll be seeing you at the Worlds Championships soon. Then you can really show your instructor what you know.

Hi Bruno I am glad you enjoyed your Balloon flight,very big difference from your gliding tour of the Teton Peak , What was your Max Height you went to ? I know your min height a few inches ! Yours Justin

Cool

Hi my name is Fredrick from Kenya.I really love air ballons and I would want to study air balloning but I need help please.Kindly would you sponsor me

How much fuel do they carry?

I'm just about to get my glider license and one of the first things I want to do is trade a glider flight for a balloon flight. I live in Banff, AB and fly in Invermere, BC. Any takers?

Did you continue and keep up with the lessons regularly?

Did he get a violation for min alt? That is the most common violation for balloon pilots.....

silly question but was your balloon being steered or was it going with the wind?

About how much fuel was used?

How do they go to the side?

Where?

Your "first lesson" seems like the most advanced training you could get in a hot air ballon, probably not the best start lol!

How much fuel do they typically carry?

they need to add realistic hot air balloons in GTA online that you can add custom designs onto

Hi Bruno, where was You? city ... :-)

My friend, her boyfriend, his father and grandfather, my brother in law sisters husband and sister in law his sister all have pilot licenses. My friends grandfather had a license because in world war 2 he flew the plane. I was in a hot air ballon and I weed myself.

I wouldn't feel comfortable being that high up. 3:40

Vielleicht ist er Dachdecker?!

Sup Bruno.. what’s the name or contact number for the instructor?

I am glad you had a good first flight, It's too late now, being as how this was 5 years ago....but it would be a good idea to engage with an instructor who keeps a better handle on the FAR's. Federal Aviation Regulations state that all aircraft except helicopters maintain 500' elevation above man made objects....and 1000' over congested areas except when landing or taking off. A recording like this is evidence for suspension or revocation.

thats weird... in the USA the rules are so relaxed? i mean its fun, but here in europe some1 would call the cops if you fly in to a backyard like that not to mention the train with its powerlines. i mean thats an accident hazard if they let anyone do that. just sayin, it was obvious that the instructor knew what he was doing and the equipment was perfect

has anyone ever fitted rudders to a hot air balloon?

Eye fish camera lense like NASA, why you ruined this awesome view