Watch as hot air balloons take to the skies in country NSW

Pilots prepare with a test flight for the Canowindra International Balloon Challenge.

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00:00Nice little practice event. Let's call it a warm-up for the event starting this week.

00:11We're making a lot of hot air. We're going to go for a little flight across town in the balloons.

00:20We've got people coming in from WA. We've got people coming from Queensland as well as the

00:24eastern seaboard as well. So it's a huge event. We get about seven and a half to eight thousand

00:28people on the last Saturday night. It was a big show that night.

00:37There's no sensation of movement. You can sit in the top of a tree. You can float through

00:41the top of a dam. Things you can't do in any other aircraft. That's what it's all about.

00:44It's just magic.