Hotair Balloon Team

Ballooning and Amateur Radio Club of Ireland

Our Navigation System       

Satellite Tracking

Puffin uses a state of the art Garmin GPSmap 96C® to assist in flight navigation.

This unit can also record our airspeed (in kts) and can assist greatly in advising the retrieve crew of our exact landing position.

Measuring Altitude       

The Variometer

Puffin uses a Digifly ® variometer. This flight instrument measures altitude, referencing a given known height (launch site) or from air pressure (pressure altitude).

It also tells us Puffin's rate of accent or decent. This is read off a scale as feet per minute.