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Top VP Steven Mezzancello is December Top Gun!

Thanks to Bubba Cliver for calling a great set of tasks in December!   Our own Top Gun VP, Steven Mezzancello was our official Top Gun.  Mezz was also an unofficial champion a month earlier when flying a Commercial Ride balloon flew over our target and dropped a marker right in the middle of our 'X'.   Congratulations Mezz on your December...

Renew your Top Gun Membership for 2022

It’s that time of year to renew your Top Gun Membership.      There is no increase in dues this year.   Pilots $50, and everybody else is $5. Pilots are being asked to upload all of their compliance information for themselves and all the balloons they intend on flying this year (Form has room for 3 Balloons).   We want to make sure that...

Welcome Stacy Eldridge to the Top Gun Board

We are very pleased to welcome Stacy Eldridge to the board of Top Gun.   Stacy stepped in through the end of year to fill a vacancy and we are pleased to have him as a board addition.     We also want to thank Steve Mezzancello for being our new Vice President and on the Executive Committee through the end of...

Kelly Price Takes 1st Place!

Last Saturday was cancelled due to weather, but Top Gun flew on Sunday and Kelly Price came through with 1,000 Points on Tasks 1 AND 2!  Congratulations to Kelly along with great showing by new Top Gun Rookie Natasha Stanke.   Thanks to President Will Fitzpatrick for a great task list.  The winds did not cooperate, but the pilots did a...

Great Father’s Day!

Attached are our Finals for today.  Thank you Shawn Speicher for being our Event Director.  Weather cooperated and we had a great flight. Task 1 Task 2 Final Overalls  Thank you to the scoring and measuring team. Happy Fathers Day Everyone

Safety Seminar

David Eichorn from AERCO mentioned March 6th, 6:30am MDT Safety seminar – great slate of speakers - $30 – qualifies for insurance credit (but be careful and actually pay attention – there are traps)  http://gebaballoon.org/    http://2019.gebaballoon.org/events/continuing-ed-seminar/