Dick Karl has done it all. After a career as a top cancer surgeon, he switched lanes to become a professional jet pilot. Once he’d done that for long enough, as a first officer and then a captain flying Cessna CJ3s for JetSuite, he bought a jet of his own. He’s been a Flying magazine columnist for more than two decades and has owned a succession of personal airplanes to cause severe hangar envy among his many readers, but he always manages to remain humble and grounded, aware, as he often says, that he is a very lucky man.
Flying Columnist Dick Karl Receives Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award
Key Takeaways:
- Dick Karl, a former cancer surgeon and professional jet pilot, was awarded the prestigious Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award.
- He received this honor for achieving an impressive milestone of 50 years of accident-free flying as pilot-in-command.
- His friends secretly nominated him for the award and orchestrated a surprise ceremony, attended by many colleagues and loved ones.
- Karl's extensive aviation career began in the 1960s as a medical student, progressing through various personal aircraft to his current Cessna CJ1.
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