• July 31, 2023

1. What is the name of your profession (position)? I am a hot air balloon pilot 2. What is your job and what are your responsibilities? I perform balloon flights, take part in competitions, and also perform commercial flights - I ride everyone. 3. What education is required to get your position? To become a balloon pilot, you must complete a pilot school, pass a special medical examination and obtain a permit to fly. Every 2 years it is necessary to take advanced training courses, without which the admission to flights is canceled. 4. Describe your working day. During the summer period, my working day starts at 4 am and ends around midnight, with a break in the daytime. There are fewer flights in winter. 5. How comfortable are your working conditions? The conditions in which I work are quite different and directly depend on the weather. Sometimes you have to take the ball out of the swamp, other times everything is beautiful and the landing is successful without unnecessary adventures. 6. What do you like most about your job? A romantic profession, and as a female pilot, of which there are only a little more than 10 in Russia, I am pleased to see the admiring glances of my passengers. 7. What do you dislike most about your job? Flexitime. Risks. 8. If it's not a secret, what is your salary level? Satisfied 9. Describe your team, what kind of people work with you? The team are tough guys, technically savvy and obligatory. 10. What human qualities do you think are most important in your business? Responsibility, a real assessment of the situation 11. Work gives me additional opportunities (here everything that work gives you except money, from self-expression and communication with interesting people to the opportunity to visit different countries). Participating in competitions, I travel a lot around Russia and European countries. 12. Do you have the opportunity to evaluate your work on a five-point scale, what grade would you give? Five - in aviation it cannot be otherwise. 13. Why did you choose this job? Family passion smoothly flowed into a profession. 14. What are the opportunities for your career development? I can become the World Champion in aeronautics! 15. What do you think we did not include in the plan and what else would you like to share with us? The most important thing in my business is to understand that I am responsible for the lives of those people who fly with me. 16. Your page in social networks. I'm on vkontakte.