Gliding is the second best feeling in the world!

Well right next to my little town www.Buchen.de is the town of Walldürn with its flying club www.fsco.de where the DocMember
is also the doctor for the pilots´ examinations which have to be done every once and a while.

I am absolutely sure that there are many more FlyingDocs out there in the world! See DocPresentation below!
Please show up, send a photo and a paragraph with your text to be inserted in this page!
Thank you!

For virtual flying even together with namy others check http://www.vatsim.net/ Virtual Air Traffic Simulation Networks!
There are thousands of flight simulators in the WorldWideWeb..................

1) Dr. Thomas Marsh

Dr. Thomas K. Marsh Optometrist

Dr. Marsh has practiced optometry in Oconomowoc since May of 1976. He was born and raised in Rockford, Illinois. After graduating from Illinois Wesleyan University with a biology major, he and his wife, Laina, moved to the state of Oregon where he graduated in 1975 from the Pacific School of Optometry in Forest Grove. During his years in Oconomowoc, Dr. Marsh has served as president, vice president, and secretary/treasurer of the local Kettle Morraine Optometric Society, and maintained membership in the state and national societies, Wisconsin Optometric Assoc. and American Optometric Assoc. He has also been very active in church activities, volunteering time for committees, and teaching adult education classes. Dr. Marsh’s favorite hobbies include flying radio-controlled airplanes, boating the beautiful Wisconsin lakes, and amateur radio. He also maintains membership in clubs associated with these hobbies. Dr. Marsh prides himself in getting to know his patients, how they use their eyes in their daily activities, including work, home and recreation, so he can help meet all their visual needs.

Dr. Marsh wrote me a nice e-mail:

2) Dr. Jörg Hänsel, flight controller (but virtually!)

The dentist from Dresden/Germany is one of the enthusiastic users of flight simulation programs in the virtual world.
They have a network of pilots and controllers and are performing flights with heavy machines live in the internet.

He was born on 24 August 1953 in Dresden, after his "Abitur"  (maturity) 1972 he became a dentist from 1975 to 1980.
After a time as an assistant at the Dresden academy for prothetic stomatology he was also teaching students and worked scientifically.
In 1986 he made his dissertation as Dr. med. and opened his own office in 1992.

After the unification of Germany east and west he began to work with computers (which was impossible before!) and even created his homepage by himself (being modest and telling he is "no specialist"). He is keeping it interesting presenting more than only his office......
....though he has not yet updated it with reports about his flight controller activities, bit this is planned.

In the German magazine FOCUS there is a report about this group (in German): http://focus.msn.de/F/2003/32/Internet/flugsimulator/flugsimulator.htm?streamsnr=8 

Soon I should get more information about this activity......

Visit his homepage at www.Haensel.de !

3) BalloonDoc and multi-hobby pharmacist Rolf E. Schindler:

is he a FlyingDoc, too? In German a balloon is not flying (fliegen) but "riding" (fahren) through the air......

4) Dr. Wito-Schulze is flying Delta-kite (?)!

In this moment I just give you the link to an interview with him in German: http://www.pharma-aventis.de/Patienten/Information/index.php?ID=108 

Hope I can get more permissions and material.

5) Bertrand Piccard BalloonDoc  BenefizDoc FlyingDoc

see his biography and his homepage: http://www.bertrandpiccard.com 

His new project:
To surround the Earth with a solar airplane!

AN AIRPLANE AND A SYMBOL In our various meetings, exchanges and contacts, many of you have asked to be kept informed about the progress of the Solar Impulse project. We are pleased to be able to do this from now on, by means of this logbook, which we are opening today, as the first step in directly addressing the values that bring us together. Solar Impulse is both a solar airplane, with the ambition of flying night and day without fuel, and a symbol of what our society must become capable of achieving in terms of energy efficiency and the use of renewable energies. In the following lines, and subsequent issues which will be published several times per year, you will read about these two aspects. You will be able to follow the project's progress, the work of the engineers, the technological challenges we encounter, to get to know the people who are making this adventure possible, and to share in our thoughts about our society's energy and environmental future. If the pioneering spirit has enabled spectacular conquests in the past, it needs, in the 21st century to enable us to develop the quality of life to which present and future generations are entitled. Technology and humanism must stand shoulder to shoulder to lighten mankind's environmental footprint, to stimulate industry and the economy in the search for new solutions, and seriously question the certainties and habits that keep us prisoners of our expensive and dangerous dependence on fossil fuels. With our round-the-world flight in a solar airplane, we want to share this state of mind and carry along in our wake all those who, like us, believe in the power of symbols and visions. Welcome aboard! Bertrand Piccard President of Solar Impulse To read all of the Solar Impulse logbook…   IN ENGLISH   EN FRANCAIS   AUF DEUTSCH   EN ESPANÕL IN SUMMARY VIRTUAL FLIGHT 2008 The Solar Impulse pilots have completed their 25-hour virtual flights.   HB-SIA The first Solar Impulse prototype is under construction in Dübendorf near Zurich. TRAJECTORY   Solar Impulse has gained more new partners: the Clarins Group (2nd official supporter), Toyota (Switzerland) (national supporter) and IATA (institutional partner) ELSEWHERE IN THE WORLD...   An ultra-light airplane has made three flights propelled by the energy from a fuel cell. - The Arctic expedition of the schooner "Tara" reveals that the ice floe is melting faster than expected. IN BRIEF Patronage of the European Commission, presentation to the Swiss Parliament, distinctions for Bertrand Piccard and his father Jacques from the University of Louvain.

See about him!

6) Dr. Martin Schmidt is FlyingDoc

Hallo Docs and colleagues, 

Anamnesis: Study of medicine in Cologne, Heidelberg and Mannheim, doctorate degree in Heidelberg in ginecology.
Clinical work at University Hospital Heidelberg, Mannheim and Aschaffenburg (all ginecology, 2,5 years).
In the year 2000 exit of curative medicine because of inhuman working conditions - change to the software industry and consulting services (medical software, therapy planning systems for hospitals, process oriented systems (bedding, guide lines, workflow). Ever since satisfied consultor.
In 2001 beginning to fly at the Frankfurt (Main)-Egelsbach association EDFE. Had been flying models as pupil and student for over 10 years.

Addictions: flying, flying, flying - models, PPL-A-flying, UL-flying. 180 hrs of experience with 380 starts and landings. In the last 3 months I have made re-entry in model flying (I cannot miss it...).
.....   ......

Kind regards
Martin Schmidt

See his DoctorsHobbies.com presentation!

7) Frank Fabian is FlyingDoc

Besides his specialisations in natural medicine, environmental medicine, emergency medicine and his full registration as GP at the GMC in London he holds several private pilot licences: PPLA, PPLB, PPLC and performs exams for pilotes.

http://www.frankfabian.de

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