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About Us

The Company
British School of Ballooning has been established for over 20 years.Established in 1987, the British School of Ballooning is a family owned business operating many balloons throughout Southern England. We employ only the finest pilots, many with over 1000 hours flying experience, so as to make each and every balloon flight a special occasion.

Fully Lisenced
We are licensed by the CAA No:BL006 - one of the first commercial licences issued. Our hot air balloons have the latest equipment, all meticulously maintained and designed especially for your safety and comfort. The British School of Ballooning operate twelve passenger carrying balloons capable of carrying from two to sixteen passengers.

Professional Service
Due to our large fleet of balloons, passengers do not have to wait very long to be booked onto a flight and only a very short time to be re-booked should they be cancelled due to poor weather conditions. This factor becomes a distinct advantage over smaller companies.

Graeme, Chief Pilot & Director

Graeme’s experience in ballooning helps to ensure your first experience of a balloon flight is and enjoyable one and is carried out in the most professional and organized manner. Graeme started ballooning in 1985 when he bought his first balloon to promote a photographic business he had and was part sponsored by Kodak. He then started the British School of Ballooning in 1997 with Brian Smith. They discovered many people wanted to fly in their balloon, since the sight of one in the sky was more of a rarity in those days. “There has to be a business here!” they thought. The business grew and grew and now Graeme operates fourteen balloons in the UK and ten in Australia. Brian retired in 1995.

Graeme is a CAA TR Examiner and Instructor in the UK and in Australia and is continually helping and encouraging young people to take up flying balloons. Both his sons are commercial balloon pilots, and theirs is probably the only family in the UK with three such qualified pilots.

He has accumulated over 3000 hrs of balloon flying, flown in over a dozen countries and his passion for ballooning is still with him after so many years.

Graeme’s experience in ballooning helps to ensure your first experience of a balloon flight is and enjoyable one and is carried out in the most professional and organized manner.

Matthew, Pilot

Matthew has been flying commercially for twelve years and has accumulated over a 1000 hrs and a wealth of experience, flying in the UK and Australia. His enthusiasm for ballooning is very obvious when you fly with him. He also competes in both the Australian and UK championships and has been extremely successful.

His charming manor and skills, we regularly receive praise for. You may have seen him recently on ITV with Stephen Tomkinson flying over Australia - he was the young competitive one!

Robin, Pilot

Robin joined us fifteen years ago after looking for a change from the building business, though he still does building work when not ballooning. He has been the backbone of the company in our busy Sussex area for many years now, knows many of the landowners personally, has an encyclopedic knowledge of the whole area and has flown thousands of passengers for BSB out of our Brighton, Hickstead Showground and East Sussex launch sites.

His informative commentary of the area and confidence shown while flying the balloon brings him much praise from the passengers.

Ravinnder, Pilot

Probably the most experienced pilot of all of us, Ravinnder flies mostly in the difficult areas of North London and Kent. He started ballooning in 1984 and went on to run his own business. In 1996 he joined British School of Ballooning when his company was taken over by BSB. Ravinnder is one of our most popular pilots with our passengers and we receive many letters of praise each year.

John, Pilot

Another pilot who just can’t get enough ballooning. John has over 1000 hrs and is one of our most knowledgeable and skillful pilots; he flies mainly in Hampshire and Sussex. His wife is a private pilot as well. John travels to many balloon festivals in the UK and overseas for his own enjoyment of the sport and has a great sense of humour, which he shares with the passengers.

Roddy, Pilot

Roddy has been involved with balloons all his life and became a pilot at 19 and a commercial pilot soon after. Roddy runs his own IT business in London and designs and maintains all of our web sites in the UK and Australia. Roddy flies most of our VIP engagement flights at present.

Judy, Director & Flight Manager

As you can imagine Judy’s experience in running the operation behind the scenes is second to none. Judy handles many of the sales calls and the operational and marketing side of the business. Her experience in ballooning can answer most of your questions and of course from the many corporate enquiries we receive.

Karen, Telephone Sales and Marketing

Karen joined us at the start of the 2011 season, quickly gaining a thorough understanding of the business and all of the information needed when dealing with customers and organizing flights. Karen also comes out retrieving balloons for us at times, when not busy with her PT massage business or horse which she will begin competing on in 2012.

Bridget, Telephone Sales

Bridget has worked part time for BSB for over 3 years now and being local can step in at the drop of a hat as and when she is needed. Our busy summer months during the flying season see her in the office quite regularly. When not at the office she is either taxi driver to her three teenage children or disappearing up the local footpaths and bridle paths of Sussex mostly as part of her own home based walking business.