Philippe have an experience of more than 15 years in hot air and proved that he can handle those things. 
License since 1985 for Hot-Air and since 1997 for gas balloon.
Total hours : +700 hot-air, +400 gas.

Championships Hot-Air Balloon :
Belgium Nationals 1990 : 3rd place
Belgium Nationals 1991 : 2nd place
Twente cup 1999 : 2nd place
Belgium Nationals 1999 : 2nd place
Belgium Nationals 2002 : 2nd place
Belgium Nationals 2003 : 2nd place
Europeans 2003 (Vilnius, Lituania) : 17th place
Belgium Nationals 2004 : 1st place

Gas Balloon :
Nachtwettfahrt Carl Götze 1998 - Düsseldorf : 1st place
Europa cup 1999 - Marl : 2nd place
Landesmeisterschaft NRW Ostern 2003 : 2nd place
Friederich Thode Wettfahrt 2003 : 2nd place
Landesmeisterschaft NRW 2003 + 2° Europa Cup : 4rd place

Gordon Bennett :
1999 (Albuquerque) : 1st
2000 (St-Hubert) : 10th
2001 (Warstein) : 3rd
2002 (Châtellerault) : 5th
2003 (Arc-et-Senans) : 3rd
2004 (Thionville) : 5th

Worlds Gas :
2004 (Bitterfeld) : 6th

Philippe reached top three rankings several times but was never able to win, he participated already in four world championships. (Canada - 1991, Luxemburg - 1993, Japan - 1997 and Australia - 2004)

On February 14th he broke the Belgian altitude record AX-8 (9 373,62 m)