some of my most intensive and greatest experiences
(after childhood, youth and first love) → websites
• understanding mathematics and physical theories, mastering related formalisms in my young days
• first solo flight in a Cessna 150, including a very near miss with
a F-104 Starfighter
• having achieved academic degrees and the licence to practise medicine as a doctor
• first solo flight under instrument flight rules in such instrument meteorolgical conditions that induced the radar
controller to the reproachfully astonished comment (in German!) "Ja können Sie denn das?" ('you really cope with this
conditions?'), when I requested IFR pickup and clearance, with zero sight already seconds after takeoff from a VFR
airfield. Yes, I landed safely at the intended destination, but the controller's imprudent and terrifying question, causing my
heart to race, left a deep impression in my mind, hearing it thirty odd years later yet. I piloted my Cessna 177 RG without autopilot and GPS (latter was
unknown then). Sure, I knew the flight was twofoldly illegal at that time, but it made a young man very proud and deeply
self-confident!
• performing many more interesting instrument flights, now holding a commercial pilot licence,
always impressive: cloudbreaking in short final of brightly illuminated airports
after long flights without any
sight, in pre-GPS times
• drastic midlife changes, rigorously executed, lingering on for decades ...
• discovery of horn torus geometry
(1988) as analogous model for fundamental physical questions, embedded in epistemological aspects,
and subsequently
steadily increasing certainty of its significant relevance in describing a mathematical universe by a very effective image
• being in the middle of an ocean
as skipper of a small sailing vessel, feeling successful in managing life of two on a boat, and enjoying it for years
• having been very close to the eye of the deadliest hurricane worldwide since 1780 on board of our boat, escaping days later unscathed - both boat and crew
• completion of my graphic synthesizer programme 'artmetic', manually, line by line, and discovering its undreamt-of capabilities, e.g.
to generate videos.
• first digital art vernissage after long preparation including construction of an exhibition hall
('Kunstlege'), latter based on
experience of several successfully and happily completed restorations of particular
real estates and old buildings
• countless great flight
adventures in small planes, solo and with friends (continue to enjoy such!)
• enduring satisfaction of having (had) a rich
life (⤳ CV )
( maybe, a little bit of common
old people feeling to have lived in better times,
e.g. then :-)
Vatukarasa
Beach,
South Coast of Viti Levu, Fiji Islands, South West Pacific