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 honored with the prestigious Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award.
- The award recognizes his remarkable achievement of 50 years of continuous, accident-free flying as pilot-in-command.
- His friends, Rob and Kathy Haines, secretly submitted his extensive pilot history to the FAA to nominate him for the award.
- Karl was presented with the award in a surprise ceremony, attended by many friends and colleagues, leaving him "dumbfounded."
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