The hot air balloon was the first successful human-carrying flight technology. The first untethered manned hot air balloon flight was performed by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d’Arlandes on November 21, 1783, in Paris, France.
Highly Detailed 3D Model, Textures and Animations
Professionally modeled with incredible interior and exterior details
17 liveries included, all at 4K resolution and with PBR textures inside and out
Fully animated cockpit and animations for inflation, deflation, stall and collapse
Animated 3D humans including a hot air balloon operator and 2 passengers
Designed and optimized for VR with great FPS performance, working VR Cockpit Zoom and proper visual scaling throughout the model
Avionics & Systems
Steam gauges showing barometric altitude, vertical speed and envelope thermometer
Available AI pilot that can control the hot air balloon based off terrain or altitude
EFB tablet included with maps and additional apps available
Balloonist Maps App: shows GPS speed and track
Little NavMap App: connect to LNM, the free open source flight planner, navigation tool, moving map, airport search and airport information system
Nearby Radio Stations: listen to radio stations local to the area you’re currently flying in
Hot Air Balloon Flight Model
Fully integrated internal hot air balloon flight model and envelope simulation
Power Plant: 2x 12 million BTU burners with realistic visual and sound effects
Immersive Sounds
Realistic burner and environmental soundsded
Bonus Features
Launch fireworks with realistic visual and audio smoke and explosion effects
Create other nearby AI flown HPG Hot Air Balloons on demand
HPG Hot Air Balloon can be set to follow a MSFS flight plan or current wind conditions
These details are awesome, for example that old rucksack with the mountain climbing equipment and stuff.
And all the gas bottles and the fire extinguisher is high-polygon and not ugly angular octagonal, the visual quality of the cockpit is really top-notch!
But you forgot one important detail hot air balloons are beautyfully illuminated at night, like a lantern with a candle insight while the burners are on.
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Wow looks like the beautiful world of msfs has reached the next level of development and evolution…
A early morning drift across the Savanah or the rolling Waikato plains… recreating that stunning Cappadocia… or “the lighting of the balloons” now we need to implement some human physics in msfs by having a human running off a cliff in a paraglider or a hang-glider, then modeling parachuting
This looks utterly amazing. Can’t wait to get it. Well done for continuing to do things with the sim that others aren’t and for pushing boundaries of whats possible.
I thought, when I saw this product for sale, that it was a joke.
It reminded me of the time Paul McCartney boasted he could get a nursery rhyme to number 1 in the charts just because it was he singing it. And he did.
Just another question about the “take off” in the balloon. I noticedin the videos online that the balloon is allready taking off without being fully inflated. Is there a release (parking brake hotkey) button to let the balloon take off after being fully inflated or when a certain temperature has been reached?
Here is my preview video in german language. I have absolutely no clue regarding hot air ballons, but what a fun this was. Thanks for letting me test this.