Steering a Baloon

[Jaybird180]

If baloons are subject to the air current they are in, how do baloon pilots fly to an intended destination? For example, during baloon tours; they go up then bring their passengers back to the same point of origin.

 

[Jim Logajan]

If baloons are subject to the air current they are in, how do baloon pilots fly to an intended destination? For example, during baloon tours; they go up then bring their passengers back to the same point of origin.

Here's the FAA Balloon Flying Handbook:

http://www.faa.gov/library/manuals/aircraft/media/FAA-H-8083-11.pdf

Lots of good books on the subject; one book in my library that I think worth recommending is "Ballooning" by Anthony Smith and Mark Wagner.