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Trainer, Educator, and Coach in training

Look up in the sky 🌤 It's a bird 🕊 It's a sky lantern 🏮 It's a weather balloon! 🎈 A party balloon too. Really. To launch one, my BEAR (Balloon Experiment carrying Amateur Radio) Team spent months preparing for it. A few weeks prior to launch we had to file our flight plans with the RSAF, CAAS and IMDA. 15mins before lift off, you can see me (in the photo) calling the airforce duty controller to get positive clearance for our "party balloon" to be released. We have launched our experimental balloons nine times so far. At least one of our balloons reached an altitude beyond 36km or 110,000feet 👩🚀 What we have learned: 🎈 #Regulations: study them in great detail and propose within limits. 🎈 Regulators: #respect and work with them. Give them time. 🎈 #Teamwork is critical to success, especially clarity of #roles and trust. 🎈 Variables such as the weather are beyond our control. 🎈 Plan, Do, Check, Act, all the time. #PDCA Above all, #Hope is Not a Method. I would know, having serviced public sector clients for over twenty years 😅 Hope you have a great weekend ahead 🙂

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