Personal travel, adventure and photography blog by Thomas Jøhnk
January 2025 - For the 10th time in 12 years I went to the Alps to fly hot air balloons for a week. This year I again brought my own hot air balloon OY-SOK. Futhermore I teamed up with Thomas Sjøgren as pilot because I haven't kept my own pilot license valid for the last... Continue Reading →
January 2024 - For the 9th time in 11 years I went to the Alps to fly hot air balloons for a week. This year I didn't bring my own hot air balloon (first time), I was instead crew on Christoffer Mundt's team. We ended up doing three flights, the first two in virtually no... Continue Reading →
March 2021 - In between many days of bad weather, the perfect weather forecast for a balloon flight from North to South of Jutland, Denmark, showed up on Windy.com. Together with Philip Mundt and our two crew, we prepared for the flight. At 7am Friday morning, precisely at sunrise, we launched our balloon and climbed... Continue Reading →
September 2020 - I had a great weekend flying balloons in Gdansk, Poland. I joined Gdansk Balloon Festival and flew my friends balloon three times. Plus a night glow. Two weeks prior to the event we also went to Gdansk to set up a balloon (not flying) from within their big stadium. This was for... Continue Reading →
April 2020 - Hot Air Ballooning to Flight Level 270 (27.079 feet, 8.253 meters). Yesterday Philip Mundt and I finally did it. Weather was fantastic. Permission from local authorities was in place. Almost no other planes up there due to the Corono crisis. Very friendly traffic controllers, we only had to talk on one frequency throughout the... Continue Reading →
March 2020 - Corona crisis, widespread lock down and stop for almost all international flights. Kastrup International Airport, largest airport in Denmark, had almost no traffic and the traffic controllers in Kastrup Tower were very open to the idea about having hot air balloons right over the airport. On March 26th the weather was just... Continue Reading →
Early January 2020 - This was my 7th trip to the Alps for flying hot air balloons, and the first year where we were three Danish balloons attending the annual and very cozy Dolomiti Balloonweek. The other two Danish balloons were flown by Philip and Christoffer Mundt. The weather was just fantastic. Six days with... Continue Reading →
January 2019 - For 6th year in a row, we (Philip Mundt and I and our teams) spent a week of ballooning in the Alps. This was our 5th stay in Dobbiaco where a small hot air balloon event with 5 to 15 balloons are taking place every year in second week of January. This... Continue Reading →
April 2017 - Together with Philip Mundt, I flew my hot air balloon to Flight Level 190. Note the last picture, an airliner flying right below our balloon inbound for Kastrup Intl.!
December 2016 - I took my hot air balloon OY-SOK to Flight Level 230 (23.000 feet) on a flight from Tølløse (Denmark) to 50 km. north of Berlin. Total distance flown ended up at 300.4 km. My friend Jan Bernburg flew with me in the basket and my son Søren Jøhnk drove the crew car.
Flying Adventures and More... 