[ADVERTORIAL] Magic Balloon Park

[MrPlum]

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[Original Post]
Our youngster tried this out yesterday. It is located on the Pala-U road heading out of town, past Elephant Village. The balloon takes you 100m above ground. 150 thb for children . 300 for adults.
[End Original Post]

ADVERTORIAL

Magic Balloon Park (tm) - a nice place where you can spend a good time with your family!

It includes:
Magic Balloon Kids Park:
Children from 5 years old like our Kids Park. It is constructed from environmentally friendly materials. Kids Park is located above the ground, not so high. Its constructions, bridges and ropes are directly between the trees. The kids likes to make competitions in strength and agility playing in the air among the trees. Kids enjoy jumping with Inflatable toys . For the little ones we have sandboxes with toys in a beautiful shady garden. So little ones can play while being constantly supervised by a member of our staff.
In addition to physical exercises, Magic Balloon Park (tm) offers art classes for children at the "be an Artist" site – here our young artists can paint a pictures or a figures, make sculptures, drawing with crayons and paints.

Magic Balloon Park staff is well-educated for work with children. Your children are always will be under attendance of our staff, watching for them and their games.

Many parents have already appreciated this opportunity and happy to come to the park, leaving their children in the care of the staff and come themselves to enjoy the food and drinks in the Restaurant.

Balloon Restaurant
Our menu is every day replenished with new and new kinds of Thai and European cousine.
Connoisseurs of Italian food will have the opportunity to taste their favorite dishes, such as Lasagne, carbonara pasta or pizza with a thin crispy crust. In the restaurant a large selection of wines, beers and cocktails. For kids we are happy to prepare milkshakes.

Flying a Magic Balloon
Adults and children will be impressed by the flight on our yellow balloon. Balloon filled with helium, goes up and down, using the ship's ultra-reliable winch and steel cable. Also our pilot all the time monitoring the weather, and if it determines that the passengers could be at even the slightest risk –
he cancels the flight. Therefore, all our flights are taken with maximum safety. impressions of flying to a 100 meter height is more than enough, and views of Hua Hin and the suburbs will leave everybody with a lasting memory.

Photo & Video Studio
The time, you spend in the Magic Balloon Park, will stay with you for a long time, welcome to our Photo & Video Studio. High-quality videos about your balloon flight, with mountain views, sea and Hua Hin bird's eye will remind you all the exciting moments . Precious holiday time with family, decorated in a photo album or in DVD will entertain you for a long time.

Gift shop
In Souvenir shop, you can buy souvenirs for friends and family, with Magic Balloon Park.

All the crew and staff at Magic balloon Look forward to seeing you soon.

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[Big Boy]

I think I'd rather take a walk around Hin Lek Fire, enjoy the viewpoints and keep my feet on the ground.

That aside, reading through their FAQs, there is this:

What if the cable breaks?

Is it won’t! The cable has a breaking strain in excess of 45 tons. This is compared to the maximum lift exerted by the balloon of just 2 tons. After taking into consideration the weight of all the equipment and the passengers, the balloon is actually only left with an upward pull of approximately 1/2 tons. Thus, the stress on the cable is in fact very small.

They obviously haven't heard the terms 'TIT' and 'Shit Happens'

So it would be nice to know what happens in the extremely unlikely event...........

I'm sure I've read that similar attractions have experienced problems elsewhere, outside of Thailand.

[poosmate]

If it should break you will be charged for a longer ride. This will be collected when you land. The company will not be responsible for any immigration issues that may occur.

[Big Boy]

[Terry]

I would like to know if you can get a G&T when at cruising altitude.

[poosmate]

Borscht and Vodka emergency rations on board

[Takiap]

I have too much to do around the house today, but maybe I'll go and give it a try next weekend.


BB, personally I think the cable they're using is an over kill. When I was working offshore not a shift went by where I wasn't required to go up the derrick in a riding belt, and the wire rope on the man riding winches only a couple of tons breaking strain. So, I guess I just have quite a bit of faith in such things.

Anyway, will post some pics once I've been up..

[Big Boy]

I would like to know if you can get a G&T when at cruising altitude.

I think I read only room for 4 - not much room for hostess and drinks trolley.

[Homer]

BB, personally I think the cable they're using is an over kill.

Unless the cable was free, why the overkill? Wouldn't two lighter cables be safer? And what's the breaking strength of the things each end of the cable is attached to? I have no fear of heights. I have no trust of airborne rides in countries where a firm can evade liability.

[Bristolian]

Safety factors of 10 or more are not uncommon. The maximum static load may be 2 tonnes but they need to factor in the load on the cable when subjected to gusts of wind. The balloon will have a large surface area and although they will not intentionally fly in windy conditions, shit sometimes happens.

Two cables would not necessarily be safer as these could easily twist together in windy conditions and as I said….shit happens

[Balloon Pilot]

Hello dear Hua-hin people !

My name is Alex - and i want to clear the situation.
First - our company has all nessesary documents - authority licenses of Thai ministry of civil aviation, insurances, board guarranty documentation etc. Also I have international ICAO Balloon pilot license, so we takes all responsibility accordings with Thai laws and ICAO laws. We have a permission to product a flights in all kinds of aircrafts, including airplanes, helicopters etc. Also all our flights are depend on flight limitations and weather conditions - so nobody will fly in dangerous condisions even for a miliion dollars.

Second - our ballon is not self-made attraction. It was built in USA (AeroBallon company). Company is specialised on making ballons, airships and blimps for coast guard and NASA, so it has all documents, test conclusions and special made equipment, with international quarranty.

and what about the rope - for the rope totally failure we need a freelift power 43000 Kg, and ballon with basket and 3 passengers has only 400 Kg of freelift. If "shit will happens" - ballon envelope has automatically-opened helium valwe, so you trip will not be very long. So you will not have a time for eating your Borsht and Vodka from emergency kit better to do this in our balloon restaurant.

if you have any questions - you can ask me here on forum.


best regards Alex,
balloon pilot

[Lung Per]

I would consider going if:

1. The balloon is certified by Lloydds of London
2. If the owner/operator can show proof of generous accident insurance for passengers
3. If the passenger basket is certified by Lloydds of London
4. If parachutes are provided.

And then again, I might just take a chance on it. Sounds tempting!
Have fun.

[Bristolian]

I would consider going if:

4. If parachutes are provided.

Quote from Website "You can rise above the ground at 100 meters, enjoy the mountain slopes covered with tropical jungle, Hua Hin and the seashore. It’s an unforgettable experience."

At 100 metres a parachute won't help much

[Balloon Pilot]

4. If parachutes are provided.

I can find a parachute spesially for you if:

1) If you can show proof you international AFF skydiver's license and personal log.
2) you have the BASE jumping permission))

In real life, in aerostatics airships, included balloons - there are no parachutes, because the envelope is a parachute itself, bigger and better than any one. A 100 m jump - is a very difficult trick...for the safety we have a big pool of borsht - under the balloon, and each survived jumper also get a big cup of vodka as a present

best regards, Alex

[kendo]

I would not have any concerns about going for a ride.
In the very unlikely event of cable failer I would not want to be standing below it.
The wire rope maybe tested to 43 tons but I bet the real breaking strain would be far greater I have seen hoist ropes on cranes break but it is a very rare event and normally through driver error.
I was driving a crane and the last move was to load the gear box on to the ship,on doing this I could not unlock from the gear box the tide was running out fast and the load on the crane was increasing by the Minuit and the hoist overload lights came on and the alarms started buzzing. The crane has a SWL safe working load of 70 tons by the time the engineers turned up looked at the fault code on a computer at the bottom of the crane they then jumped into the lift and came up to the motor house to flick over a circuit breaker.
In the cranes operators cab my computer screen was registering 124 tons on the scales now I must say I was sweating a bit to say the least good job it was a new crane but they are always capable of a far higher load.

A couple of questions for the ballon man out of interest
1. What's the highest wind speed you will fly and does that apply to gusts or mean speed.
2. How offen will you be doing a rope examination.

Kendo.