Flytec Balloon

03/10/2021

Flytec Balloon: Volirium is partnering up

Volirium, the company behind the Flytec Balloon brand of variometers and other electronic devices used and loved by balloonists world-wide, will from now on work with two partners for production, sales, support, and repairs. This is to ensure that the ballooning world can continue to rely on Flytec Balloon as a professional brand that is guided by pilots' best interests.

The first of these partners is Flymaster Avionics in Portugal, a company that is mainly known for its paragliding varios and the Flymaster Tracker, a live tracking system used in many competitions. From now on, Flymaster will be responsible for production, sales, and support of Flytec Balloon varios, while Volirium and Flymaster will be jointly responsible for marketing and development. Volirium's General Manager Jörg Ewald will continue to make sure Flytec Balloon devices deliver exactly what pilots need.

The second partner is Swiss-German CAMO Ballonservice Gerhardt.Schmidle, who will become responsible for all repairs outside of North America. Patrik Schmidle was our very first test pilot for the Flytec Balloon 3040, back in 1991. His company was the first Swiss balloon CAMO. The vario repairs will be done by our very own Jorge Rodrigues, who has been responsible for vario repairs at Volirium for more than five years.

We do our best to keep changes for you as a pilot to a minimum:
- All information about Flytec Balloon remains available at www.flytec-balloon.com
- Our reseller network remains unchanged
- In North America, Steve Kroop at Flytec USA (www.flytec.com / [email protected]) remains your primary contact point for support and repairs

There will be a few changes nevertheless, for pilots outside of North America:
- For support and repairs, write to [email protected]. We will provide instructions on how to get your defective varios to Ballonservice
- For all other concerns, contact us at [email protected]

We are very excited about these collaborations and look forward to working with Flymaster and Ballonservice.

Jörg Ewald for Volirium

22/09/2021

During the Mondial balloon festival in Chambley, France, we ran a raffle for a Flytec Balloon 4 Night Glow. Caitlin made it very clear that she was much more interested in the Beagle whose image we use in our advertising, than in an electronic box her mom would use for flying. She entered the raffle anyway. Twice. And look, she won!

20/06/2021

The GPS problem of the Flytec Balloon 6040 is fixed.

We just released a new software version for the Flytec Balloon 6040:

Version 3.08a fixes the bug where in some cases, GPS reception was lost after 1-3 hours.

Download the new software version from here: https://www.flytec-balloon.com/?page_id=558&lang=en

Happy Flying!

05/05/2021

Petr Kubicek writes: "I did interesting whole night flight and was using FB4 for it (unfortunately without the night modification). Worked perfectly (as always 😊)." - what an incredibly impressive flight, congratulations team Kubicek!

10/02/2021

The flight over Grand Canyon in moving pictures:

Two hot air balloon flights over the Grand Canyon

12/06/2020

Software update for Flytec Balloon 6040

This is just a quick note to let you know that we released a new software version for the Flytec Balloon 6040:

In Version 3.07a, the TT34 reception has been improved, and will now be more robust in situations where other transmission disturb the connection.

Download the new software version from here: https://www.flytec-balloon.com/?page_id=558&lang=en

Happy Flying!

02/06/2020

You like those calm early morning launches.

You like those serene evening flights into the sunset.

You like those surreal night flights under your gas balloon.

And in all those situations, you want to read the values on your vario. That’s why we bring you the Flytec Balloon 4 Night Glow.

The Flytec Balloon 4 Night Glow is the first commercially available ballooning vario with built-in backlight. And it’s not just any backlight, it’s a beautiful amber glow that is a perfect match with your burner flame. Because your vario should shine as beautifully as your balloon.

The Flytec Balloon 4 Night Glow can now be pre-ordered:
https://www.volirium.com/en/product/flytec-balloon-4/ (make sure you select the Night Glow edition). Delivery of the first, batch is expected for mid-July 2020.

Existing Flytec Balloon 4 can be upgraded with the Night Glow option. Contact us for details.