{"id":1798,"date":"2020-08-19T14:48:03","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T12:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pilatre-de-rozier.com\/pbp\/?p=1798"},"modified":"2020-08-25T10:50:10","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T08:50:10","slug":"quarante-ans-de-montgolfieres-et-plus-de-2000-heures-de-vol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pilatre-de-rozier.com\/pbp\/2020\/08\/19\/quarante-ans-de-montgolfieres-et-plus-de-2000-heures-de-vol\/","title":{"rendered":"Quarante ans de montgolfi\u00e8res et plus de 2000 heures de vol"},"content":{"rendered":"

\ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\uddf7 Quarante ans de montgolfi\u00e8res et plus de 2000 heures de vol<\/strong><\/p>\n

Il y a des ann\u00e9es qui marquent. 2020 ! Cela fait quarante petites ann\u00e9es que je pilote, quelques temps comme \u00e9ternel stagiaire (du fait de mon m\u00e9tier de journaliste qui me laissait peu de temps pour une telle passion envahissante), puis comme pilote et enfin comme instructeur. ET plus de 2.000 heures de vol sur le carnet !<\/p>\n

A Cheuby, puis Courcelles et enfin Chambley, plus de 75 stagiaires femmes et hommes ont eu \u00e0 me subir ! De nombreux pilotes issus de la formation Pil\u00e2tre de Rozier continuent \u00e0 voler sous nos couleurs. M\u00eame un pr\u00eatre ! N\u2019est ce pas cher Eric Lorinet ! Impossible de tous les citer, mais je dois avouer une certaine fiert\u00e9 de les voir encore sillonner les airs. Alors lorsque l\u2019on est un instructeur qui forme souvent (avec Denis Martignon actuellement, nous avons 4 stagiaires dans notre DTO – nouveau nom des centres de formation), on passe plus de temps \u00e0 se trouver dans une nacelle, sans \u00eatre aux commandes, qu\u2019\u00e0 voler pour son propre plaisir.<\/p>\n

Mercredi 19 ao\u00fbt, un ancien stagiaire du #GEMAB (1991 et 1995) de passage en Lorraine a voulu faire d\u00e9couvrir \u00e0 son \u00e9pouse et \u00e0 ses deux enfants, les joies du vol dans une bulle d\u2019air accroch\u00e9e dans les airs. Lev\u00e9 \u00e0 04h30, sur le terrain \u00e0 06h00, il a bien fallu que je me mette aux commandes, sans \u00e9l\u00e8ve. Douce sensation, plaisir renouvel\u00e9, joie non dissimul\u00e9e, bref j\u2019ai pris mon pied. Petit vent de sept noeuds, superbe ciel et passagers \u00e9bahis, un pur moment de bonheur que je voulais partager avec celles et ceux qui lisent ma prose, habituellement avec moins d\u2019emphase.<\/p>\n

Et pour finir ma matin\u00e9e, apr\u00e8s la remise des dipl\u00f4mes et \u00e9pinglettes de premier vol, un petit cours de pilotage de mini montgolfi\u00e8re dans notre hangar avec l\u2019ami Denis Martignon et son neveu Joshua Delarue. Ce dernier, jeune pilote de montgolfi\u00e8re et v\u00e9ritable sp\u00e9cialiste de la mini. Bref une matin\u00e9e r\u00e9jouissante avant une petite sieste. Eh oui pr\u00e9paration du #GEMAB21 oblige.<\/p>\n

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\ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udde7 <\/b>Forty years of hot air balloons and more than 2,000 flying hours<\/b><\/p>\n

2020 is a kind of milestone! I have been piloting for forty short years, first as an everlasting trainee (due to my job as a journalist which left me little time for such an overwhelming passion), then as a pilot and finally as an instructor. And I accumulated more than 2,000 flying hours on my logbook!<\/p>\n

In Cheuby, then Courcelles and finally Chambley, more than 75 female and male trainees had to suffer me! Many pilots from the Pil\u00e2tre de Rozier training continue to fly under our colors. Even a priest! Isn\u2019t it dear Eric Lorinet! Impossible to name them all, but I must admit a certain pride to see them still ballooning. So when you are an instructor who often trains (with Denis Martignon currently, we have 4 trainees in our DTO – new name for training center), you spend more time in a basket, without being in control, than flying for your own pleasure.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday August 19th, a former #GEMAB trainee (1991 and 1995) passing through Lorraine wanted his wife and two children to discover the joys of flight thanks to an air bubble hanging in the air. Got up at 4:30 am, on the field at 6:00 am, I had to be sole at the helm of the flying machine. Sweet sensation, renewed pleasure, undisguised joy! Little wind of seven knots, beautiful sky and stunned passengers, a moment of pure happiness that I wanted to share with those who read my prose, which is usually less emphatic.<\/p>\n

And to end my morning, after the first-flight ceremony including delivery of certificate and souvenir pin, I have been initiated to operate a model balloon in our hangar with my friend Denis Martignon and his nephew Joshua Delarue. The latter, a young hot-air balloon pilot and real specialist in the model. In short, a cheerful morning before a nap… with preparation of #GEMAB21 keep in mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\uddf7 Quarante ans de montgolfi\u00e8res et plus de 2000 heures de vol Il y a des ann\u00e9es qui marquent. 2020 ! Cela fait quarante petites ann\u00e9es que je pilote, quelques temps comme \u00e9ternel stagiaire (du fait de mon m\u00e9tier de journaliste qui me laissait peu de temps pour une telle passion envahissante), puis comme pilote […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classifiee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pilatre-de-rozier.com\/pbp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pilatre-de-rozier.com\/pbp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pilatre-de-rozier.com\/pbp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pilatre-de-rozier.com\/pbp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pilatre-de-rozier.com\/pbp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1798"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pilatre-de-rozier.com\/pbp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1800,"href":"https:\/\/www.pilatre-de-rozier.com\/pbp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1798\/revisions\/1800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pilatre-de-rozier.com\/pbp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pilatre-de-rozier.com\/pbp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pilatre-de-rozier.com\/pbp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}