I’ve heard people say things like they choose a wind current or something, but that sounds so imprecise and doesn’t make a lot of sense… Like I’ve heard the wind moving in different directions at different elevations? But when you get close to whatever field you’re trying to land in what happens if the wind starts blowing you a different direction?
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The only steering is controlling your elevation.
Before hot air balloons launch they look at all the atmospheric winds. Big events will start studying patterns days in advance.
At higher altitudes the wind direction does not change much; prevailing winds are pretty predictable….So much of the worry is at lower altitudes: how fast to ascend or descend
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