December 2013
EW IN OTHER NEWS
69
William Fishkind, MD, takes off
by Maxine Lipner EyeWorld Senior Contributing Writer
Piloting toward multidimensional success
I
t began as something of a
lark—the last thing in the
world William J. Fishkind,
MD, ever expected to be doing.
Shortly after responding to a
newspaper advertisement for an
introductory flight lesson, he found
himself at a small county airport
in a little Cessna 152 sitting in
the pilot seat. Dr. Fishkind is codirector of the Fishkind, Bakewell &
Maltzman Eye Care Center, Tucson,
Ariz., and clinical professor of ophthalmology at both the University of
Arizona and the University of Utah.
"The instructor went through
the basics of what's involved with a
takeoff and what to expect from the
airplane and the next thing I knew,
he said, 'Well, go ahead.' I said,
'Me?' he said, 'Sure, you do it.' It
took a little while to build up speed
because it wasn't too fast or powerful, but in that moment it transitioned from taxing down the
runway to flying, it was an amazing
feeling—it felt like I was a bird flying
in the air." At that moment, Dr.
Fishkind was hooked.
Free as a bird
Dr. Fishkind decided that he was
going to continue flying for a while
and see about getting his pilot's
license. He also decided to buy his
own airplane, a Cessna 182, a bigger
version of the one on which he had
taken his initial lesson. "Eventually I
traded that and bought a Bonanza
A36, and that was the airplane that I
flew for quite a number of hours,"
he said.
His hobby gave him a sense of
mobility that he hadn't anticipated.
"What I realized was that in Arizona,
we live in small pockets of population separated by large expanses of
desert," Dr. Fishkind said. "The air-
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