Certificate of Course Completion Überlingen, Germany 1993

 

Überlingen is a German city on the northern shore of Lake Constance in Baden-Württemberg near the border with Switzerland. 

After the end of the war, all aviation activities were temporarily banned in Germany. In 1958, however, the development of flight controllers was resumed, and in 1960 - with the contract for the European Sidewinder program - a separate subsidiary was founded under the name Fluggerätewerk Bodensee GmbH. In 1968, the company was renamed Bodenseewerk Gerätetechnik GmbH (BGT).

(Picture from my Personal File)

Cessna 172J Rocket D-EJPA flew for 35 minutes over the lake Constance between Zurich and Überlingen carrying only four passengers inclusive of two of us from Pakistan International Airlines. It was a remarkable flight at night time indeed. It was my first foreign travel after open heart surgery in 1990. I used to go for a morning walk daily in -1 degree Celsius. We were living in a rented two bed room’s house. The cat of our landlord used to walk with me every day to help me motivated for the next morning, hahaha.