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The day before Christmas Eve, the pilot stayed in the air for just under two hours. It first flew from Friedrichshafen to Ulm, then suddenly turned around and made some more unusual turns in the airspace north of Lake Constance. His flight data evaluations show: The man traced the shape of a syringe. With the campaign, he wanted to draw attention to the upcoming corona vaccines.
The pilot and his Diamond DA20 Katana machine belong to the Friedrichshafen Air Sports Club on Lake Constance. “One of our members, a very creative person, came up with the idea to do this flight,” the Swiss news site “20 Minuten” quoted board member Frank Fischer as saying.
Pilot Samy Kramer wanted to set an example for the corona vaccines that will soon begin in Germany. “Right now I have to accumulate many hours of flight, and instead of flying like that, I wanted to draw a reminder in the air that you should be vaccinated,” the news portal quotes him.
Kramer had shown that he can already drive very precisely, because the figure’s flight in midair obviously had its drawbacks. “This makes flying more challenging than usual,” the portal quoted Kramer further. “The turns are quite slow, you can feel about three times your body weight,” says the pilot. It took him about half an hour to plan, then entered the turning points into a navigation system. Especially in strong winds, pay attention to the straight course of the route and cover the curves with precision, according to the pilot.
In Germany, the first coronavirus vaccines are scheduled to start on December 27. First, people over 80 years of age, as well as residents and staff of nursing homes, should be vaccinated, according to the plan of the Ministry of Health. Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU) expects up to 13 million doses of vaccines for Germany by the first quarter of 2021. Since each patient must be vaccinated twice, this amount is sufficient for approximately 6.5 million people. According to the Federal Statistical Office, there are 5.7 million people in Germany who are over 80 years old.
Then other particularly exposed groups, such as doctors and nurses, should be vaccinated. Spahn announced in December that 60 percent of the population could be vaccinated by the end of the summer of 2021.
